Teachers & Contributors – LightingLives

Swapna Das

Swapna Das

Designation: Class teacher of class 3
Experience: Having an experience of 20 years in Art of Living, she has found the true meaning of life – life is beautiful, full of opportunities!
Journey with Lighting Lives:She has found the inspiration of her life in Lighting Lives school! Lighting Lives school has been constantly making the childrens’ lives beautiful and full of opportunities.
Along with that, she has received a lot of enthusiasm to develop her skills, broaden her horizons and outlook!

She is a proud member of Lighting Lives school, performing the best roles of her life – an Art of Living teacher and the teacher of Lighting Lives school!

Shradha Sharma

Shradha Sharma

Designation: Coordinator cum teacher of class 3 (Dance, EVS, SST)
Experience: Being a postgraduate in commerce, she has worked with India’s top financial institutions like ICICI Bank, ICICI PRUDENTIAL LIFE INSURANCE, KOTAK LIFE INSURANCE, INDIA INFOLINE as senior financial services manager. Besides, she has almost 18 years of experience in private tuitions.
Journey with Lighting Lives: Now, Ms.Sharma is associated with Lighting Lives school for the past 2.5 years. Lighting Lives school is happy to provide her a homely environment. She feels nice to be a part of the Lighting Lives family which has been trying utmost to light lives of children who needs a spark to glow!

Sarmistha Gupta

Sarmistha Gupta

Designation: Class teacher of Class 1
Experience: She is a postgraduate in economics and a trained dancer too. She has worked for 10 years in the reputed Chamber of Commerce. Apart from that, she has 3 years experience in private tuition.
Journey with Lighting Lives: She is happy to be a part of our nonprofit organization. For her, students’ success is everything! She has developed a zeal to help people in need as much as possible.

Ananya Chowdhury

Ananya Chowdhury

Designation: Nursery class teacher and art and craft teacher
Experience:A graduate in humanities and currently pursuing teacher’s training from PCI. She worked for Hearing Plus as an after-sale executive for almost a year. Then she joined SBS Knowledge Academy as an abacus teacher and art and craft teacher and worked there for about 1.5 years. After that, she had been working as a private tutor at Gyaan Deepak for the past 7 years.
Journey with Lighting Lives:Since January 2019, she has been a part of the Lighting Lives school. She takes an active part in the development of the school. She feels extremely happy to impart her knowledge and wishes more children to enroll in our school!

Mrs Swati Bagchi

Mrs Swati Bagchi

Designation: Teacher of Class 2
Experience: She is one of the senior teachers of Lighting Lives school. Having a master’s degree in Hindi, she was conferred the title of Sahitya Visharad in 1995. She got Montessori Training in the year 2008. She has taught in schools of different parts in India like Ladakh Public school (Ladakh), Surya Public school (Patiala), Modern High Secondary School (Bangalore), Gurukul Montessori School (Nasik).
Journey with Lighting Lives: She is truly honoured and blessed to be a part of Lighting Lives school. Lighting Lives has provided her a platform to keep her head high whenever she looks at herself in the mirror and in the eyes of her ANGELIC STUDENTS!!

Shaswati Sengupta

Shaswati Sengupta

Designation: Teacher of KG2
Experience: A first class honours from Presidency College, followed by first class in M.Sc from Calcutta University. Then she got first class in MBA degree from Jadavpur University.
She has worked as a Human Resources Consultant at Aon Hewitt. She has experience in teaching students at A+ Learning solutions (English and Arithmetic). She was also a teacher at Pathfinder Institute for class 9 and class 10.
Journey with Lighting Lives: She is deeply devoted to her passion, i.e, teaching, at our school! Every morning, she loves to witness the innocent smiling faces and happiness of the students. She considers these colorful smiles as one of the purest and honest things in this world.

Debasmita Roy

Debasmita Roy

Designation: Class teacher of KG1
Experience: She got her master’s degree in political science from Calcutta University. Ms. Roy used to worked as a graphic designer at Natural Graphic Designs Limited.
Along with that, she has a vivid teaching experience of 19 years. She has imparted home tuition to students of various classes.
She was the subject teacher of classes 3 – 5 at Ryan International School, Mumbai.
Journey with Lighting Lives: Another proud member of Lighting Lives family. Initially, she was reluctant to teach such tiny toddlers as she didn’t have any such experience. But she felt motivated when she came to know about our school’s motto to help students of the underprivileged strata of the society.
She keeps up this zeal when she sees the innocent faces of the little children in the morning.
Lighting Lives is happy to change her vision of life. Now, she aims to take out the best version of the kids and simultaneously give her best to them!

Ruma Sarkar Chatterjee

Ruma Sarkar Chatterjee

Designation: Special educator and Bengali teacher of Class 2 and 3
Experience: She has done BA (Hons) from Calcutta University. After that, she has worked as a junior teacher at St. Florence Day School. She was also a probationary Bengali teacher for 6 months in the Frank Anthony School.
She was associated with AMRI Hospitals, Saltlake, Suraksha Diagnostic and Apollo Clinic, New town in the field of floor management.
Journey with Lighting Lives: To nurture young minds and help people is her motto in life! And now she can relate her life’s principle with Lighting Lives, dedicated to the underprivileged in the society.
She feels immensely proud to be a member of the Lighting Lives family. And she wants to dedicate herself in enlightening and developing these blooming buds!

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