Sana Durrani
Leading Educator
Bhopal
Summary
Experienced academic leader and Business & Economics educator with over 10 years of experience across leading boarding and international schools in India. Proven expertise in curriculum leadership, faculty mentoring, Cambridge and IB programmes, academic operations, student achievement monitoring, and interdisciplinary programme development. Recognised for building collaborative academic cultures, leading institutional initiatives, and integrating global perspectives into teaching and learning. CFA-qualified professional with a unique blend of educational leadership and financial expertise.
Overview
2
2
Languages
3
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Certifications
11
11
years of professional experience
Work History
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Shrewsbury International School India
09.2025 - Current
- Line managing all staff within the department
- Overseeing and actively supporting CPD and ensuring equitable and effective delegation of responsibilities including teaching load and super-curricular activities
- Promoting independent and active learning
- Monitoring the quality of teaching and learning throughout the department
- Monitoring student outcomes including examination results tests and reports
- Developing an appropriately ambitious curriculum for each of the subjects in the department ensuring that each one of them incorporates the Public Examination specifications that best suit the students
- Constructing and developing schemes of work
- Taking overall responsibility of marking, analyzing and where appropriate setting entrance tests at all points of entry in the school
- Taking responsibility for setting internal examinations
- Playing an active role in HOD meetings and attending any other meeting as directed by Deputy Head of Academics
- Certifications:
- Certification in Components 1,2,3,4 Marking workshop Cambridge International AS and A level Business 9609 (2023-2025) & (2026-2028)
- Safeguarding Young People for International Schools
- Child Protection for International Schools
HEAD OF RESOURCES/KNOWLEDGE OFFICER
Indus International School
10.2024 - 05.2025
- Head of Resources
- Management of the Resource Centre
- Coordinating and organizing all the activities related to the resource Centre
- Ensuring adequate help and assistance given for research in Extended Essay for IB learners
- Supervising the Personal Project for IB MYP Grade 5
- Assisting and supervising the Reflective Projects for IB CP learners
- Ensuring timely flow of adequate resources to all learners at various programs
- Knowledge Officer
- Building the knowledge HUB as an alternative curriculum for the IB learners
- Running the Military History Verticals as of the seven verticals as part of the Knowledge HUB
- Doing workshops in schools on various topics such as Cyber bullying and Cyber safety for PYP learners
- Training the students for MUN’s and providing all round assistance
SENIOR SECONDARY TEACHER
Welham Boys’ School
07.2019 - 09.2024
- Nodal Officer for CBSE Hubs of Learning (Welham Boys’ School- Lead Collaborator)
- Planning all the activities to be performed by the schools of the HUB
- Coordinating and organizing all the activities of the HUB and keeping the schools updated with the latest developments
- Inter and intra school liaising for the smooth execution of the planned activities
- Keeping all records up to date and preparing reports on the same
- Teacher in Charge- Military History Seminar 2020 till 2023
- Teaching Class XI & XII– Economics, Business Studies and Entrepreneurship (CBSE)
- Class Teacher – Grade XI
- Time table in charge
- Teacher in charge – Business Club/ Stock Exchange & Military History Club
- PUBLICATIONS AT WELHAM BOYS’ SCHOOL
- Teacher in charge of the 4th & 5th Edition of Military History Journal 2020 and 2022
- The Principal’s Report- 2020, 2021 and 2022
HOD - COMMERCE (INTERNATIONAL CURRICULUM) CAMBRIDGE SENIOR SECONDARY
The Sanskaar Valley School
08.2014 - 07.2019
- Teaching - AS & A level Economics
- Teaching IGCSE Business Studies
- Teaching IGCSE Grade 9 and 10 through innovative and latest pedagogies
- Attended Training for AS and A levels Economics at Girls Heritage School- Udaipur May 2019
- Attended Advanced Extension Training (IGCSE) - Treamis International School, Bangalore- August 2016
- Attended Introductory Training (IGCSE)- British School, New Delhi - April 2015
- Attended Interactive Session (IGCSE) at Choitrams International School, Indore July, 2016
- Invigilation and Exam Conduction of IGCSE Exams 2018 and 2019
- Teaching ISC Economics Grade 11 and 12
- Preparing lesson plans and teaching as per scheme of work and syllabus Preparing the teaching pedagogy as per the ISC board pattern
- Counselling and providing remedial
- MUN (Model United Nations) Teacher In charge and middle school coordinator
- Represented the school as teacher in charge at KAMUN (King’s Academy Model United Nations) Jordan in March 2019.
- Conducting the various MUN conferences and Mock MUN’s at school and intra school level
- Organising the various inter school MUN trips and MUN Workshops
- Guiding and supervising the students to conduct mock MUN’s and educate and empower the students about current events, topics in international relations, diplomacy and the United Nations agenda on global issues facing the world and nurturing them into dynamic leaders of tomorrow.
- House Coordinator – Pragyan House - February-2017 - January-2018
- Planning and organising house events and inter-house competitions
- Keeping a track and record of house points and conducting house meeting
- Mentoring and encouraging the students for participation in the inter house events and to adhere to the house spirit
- ISA (International School Award), British Council Coordinator
- Planning and organising the action plans as part of the ISA, British Council
- Conducting and coordinating the various activities as per the approved action plan
- Report and Dossier making of the listed activities along with the appropriate evidence
- Achievements at The Sanskaar Valley School, Bhopal
- Member of the Core team for the ISA Award Committee – Managed to successfully execute the ISA
- Action plan on “International Heritage walk” and aided the school earn the 1st ISA Award
- Produced the 1st IGCSE Results for Batch of 2017-18 in Business Studies with 5 students scoring A
- And A’s out of the total 8 students
- Organised and Managed “Sanskaarnival 2017”
- Raises funds for the girl child
- Supplying items of daily hygiene to SOS Village funded by UNICEF
Accounts Manager/Executive
Rene'Crafts Pvt Ltd
04.2010 - 04.2014
- Applied CFA knowledge in financial reporting, budgeting, and investment analysis to support strategic decision-making.
- Achieving accounting operational objectives by contributing to accounting information and recommendations to strategic plans and reviews
- Preparing and completing action plans;
- Implementing production, productivity, quality, and customer-service standards;
- Resolving problems; Completing audits; Identifying trends;
- Determining system improvements;
- Implementing change
Executive Marketing Support
Birla SunLife Insurance Co. Ltd
08.2004 - 05.2005
- Assisting and providing administration support to the sales managers and their team.
- Handling key areas of logging in insurance policies in the system and keeping a track of their updates, communicating the same with Sales Team
- Handling the Sales Personnel Net Accredited Agency Credit and their calculations.
- Providing motivation to sales personnel through training modules and product training.
- Coordinating the sales events, training schedules and other similar related events.
- Underwriting/ Client Servicing for timely completion and taking initiatives to get policy settled
Education
PG Diploma - Educational Management & Administration
IGNOU
Master of Arts - Economics
Barkatullah University
01.2017
B.Ed. - Bachelor of Education
IGNOU
01.2017
CFA - Chartered Financial Analyst
ICFAI University
01.2008
B. Com - undefined
Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics, University of Mumbai
01.2002
Senior Secondary (XII) - undefined
St Joseph’s Convent Senior Secondary School
Bhopal01.1999
Secondary (X) - undefined
St Joseph’s Convent Senior Secondary School
Bhopal01.1997
Skills
Academic Leadership
Curriculum Planning & Implementation
Faculty Mentoring & CPD
Cambridge & IB Programmes
Student Achievement Monitoring
School Operations Coordination
Certification
AMFI (Association of mutual Funds of India) Certified
References
- Rajendar Pal Devgan, Ex Principal YPS Mohali, +91-9977004325, Welham Boys’ School, Current Trustee Board of Governors, Dehradun
- Dilip Kumar Panda, Principal, +91-9897577711, SelaQui International School, Dehradun
- Sandeep Chhabra, Ex Principal, Indus International School, Pune- +91 83909 05891
PUBLICATIONS
Member of the Publications team - Contributed in Conceptualizing, collating and editing of the decadal celebration book "Udaan" - Year Book of The Sanskaar Valley school
Timeline
HEAD OF DEPARTMENT- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
Shrewsbury International School India
09.2025 - Current
HEAD OF RESOURCES/KNOWLEDGE OFFICER
Indus International School
10.2024 - 05.2025
SENIOR SECONDARY TEACHER
Welham Boys’ School
07.2019 - 09.2024
HOD - COMMERCE (INTERNATIONAL CURRICULUM) CAMBRIDGE SENIOR SECONDARY
The Sanskaar Valley School
08.2014 - 07.2019
Accounts Manager/Executive
Rene'Crafts Pvt Ltd
04.2010 - 04.2014
Executive Marketing Support
Birla SunLife Insurance Co. Ltd
08.2004 - 05.2005
Secondary (X) - undefined
St Joseph’s Convent Senior Secondary School
Senior Secondary (XII) - undefined
St Joseph’s Convent Senior Secondary School
B. Com - undefined
Sydenham College of Commerce & Economics, University of Mumbai
CFA - Chartered Financial Analyst
ICFAI University
B.Ed. - Bachelor of Education
IGNOU
Master of Arts - Economics
Barkatullah University
PG Diploma - Educational Management & Administration
IGNOU