Award Winner Interview
Category: Dynamic School Awards
Ms. Sanchita Raha is an education leader with extensive experience in international education, school development, and academic improvement. The South India Educator’s Summit 2026 introduction notes her role in supporting the growth of CHIREC International School, including an increase in student enrollment from 1,200 to 3,200 over six years while maintaining strong IGCSE and International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme results. She has also contributed to professional development and international school evaluation.
Ms. Raha participated in the session AI, Hybrid Learning, and the New School Model: What’s Here to Stay?, where she addressed a central challenge facing educators: how to measure learning when students can use artificial intelligence to generate essays, solve problems and prepare polished presentations in seconds.
She argued that assessment must look beyond final outcomes and pay greater attention to the process through which students learn. Traditional essays, research papers and project reports may need to be reconsidered when AI can produce much of the visible work. Educators should instead make students’ thinking visible and assess their ability to explain decisions, refine AI-generated responses and apply learning to real-world problems.
Ms. Raha also highlighted academic integrity and the need to develop practical skills alongside subject knowledge. Her perspective was not simply that schools should restrict or embrace AI, but that they should understand how it can be used effectively and responsibly. These themes reflect the broader conversations on educational transformation and responsible technology integration explored by EducationNewsNetwork.
Her contribution placed assessment reform at the centre of the AI debate. She encouraged educators to prepare students for a world in which technology is readily available, while ensuring that genuine understanding, critical thinking and independent judgement remain essential measures of learning.
Ms. Sanchita Raha is the Principal of CHIREC International School and participates as a panelist in education discussions.
Ms. Sanchita Raha is associated with CHIREC International School in Hyderabad, Telangana.
A panelist shares professional insights, discusses educational challenges, exchanges ideas with fellow experts, and contributes perspectives on emerging trends.
Educational leadership helps establish academic direction, support teachers, encourage innovation, and create learning environments that respond to diverse student needs.
Schools can prepare students by encouraging critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, digital literacy, and practical problem-solving skills.
