GURUGRAM: The Central Board of Secondary Education issued a fresh invitation on Monday, November 9, 2026, asking affiliated school heads to share classroom assessment case studies for its annual Sahodaya conference. Principals and teachers in Gurugram's affiliated schools can submit original accounts of their practices by November 30, ahead of a separate December registration deadline for delegates.

The invitation is addressed to heads of all CBSE affiliated schools. Its local audience includes institutions such as Delhi Public School in Sector 45, whose mandatory public disclosure lists CBSE affiliation number 530405. The new development is the board's invitation and submission framework; the circular does not identify a Gurugram school as a selected contributor or delegate.

What schools can submit by November 30

Circular Acad 76/2026, dated November 9, calls for case studies describing assessment practices adopted by schools. The subjects include moving from recall towards competency based evaluation, making assessment inclusive for different learners, improving feedback, and using portfolios or projects. Schools can also address teacher capacity building and the relationship between classroom assessment and board examination reforms.

The board asks for accounts rooted in actual school experience. A submission should identify significant issues, dilemmas or challenges encountered by teachers, principals or schools in a specific setting. It should also propose possible ways of addressing those challenges. That gives contributors a defined task: explain a practice and its difficulties, rather than send a general statement about educational aims.

The word limit is 1,000 words, and the contribution must be original. The circular rules out plagiarised work. It asks authors to provide an accurate account of events and strongly encourages authentic primary and secondary data. Where primary data is used, names and other confidential details should be disguised to protect confidentiality.

References should appear at the end. Submissions may be in Hindi or English and should state the topic, the contributor's name and whether the contributor is a principal or teacher, along with the school's name and address. These particulars allow the submission to be associated with its author and institution.

File rules and selection conditions

The study must be sent as one Word file. The board specifies Arial, or Unicode for Hindi, at font size 12, with 1.5 line spacing and margins of 2 centimetres on both sides. PDF submissions will not be accepted. Relevant photographs and other supporting evidence should accompany the account; images and photographs must be in JPEG format.

The circular directs contributors to email their studies to sahodayanationalconference2026@gmail.com on or before November 30. It gives no closing hour. Schools should therefore retain the date as the stated deadline rather than assume a particular midnight cut off. The board says late submissions and hard copies will not be accepted.

The editorial team will determine which entries are eligible. Selected practices are to be brought together in an electronic souvenir released during the conference. Submitting a study consequently starts an editorial selection process; the invitation does not promise that every account received will be included in that publication.

  • Case study deadline: November 30, 2026.
  • Study length: up to 1,000 words.
  • Languages: Hindi or English.
  • Study file: Word, with the specified formatting.
  • Supporting photographs: JPEG.
  • Delegate registration deadline: December 5, 2026.

Conference registration follows a separate timetable

The 32nd National Annual Conference of Sahodaya School Complexes is scheduled for December 17 and 18 at the Baba Jitto Auditorium, Sher-e-Kashmir University of Agricultural Sciences and Technology, Jammu. CBSE is organising it with the Jammu Sahodaya School Complex. The November 9 announcement focuses on assessment, feedback, competencies and individual learning progress.

Delegate registration runs through the organising Sahodaya's conference portal until December 5. The participation fee is Rs 6,000 per person, payable to the organiser. The board says the fee collected by the host will be subject to a third party audit. That participation payment is described separately from the instructions for sending a case study.

The organiser's page says travel and accommodation are outside the registration fee and must be arranged separately. It also says registration is online, with no offline or on site facility, and that the registration fee is nonrefundable. Delegates should read those terms before making their own arrangements. This report concerns the newly issued November 9 circular, with the later conference dates retained as announced.

For separate local school developments, readers can consult earlier reports on the Gurugram Vidyanjali school support meeting, primary school names and class rules, and child safety sessions in local schools.