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The Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE), founded in 1966, is a global

The Global Educational Family of Leaders and Learning
AAIE is a dynamic global community providing a forum for the exchange of ideas and research concerning development in the field of international education and school leadership, and to advance international education through participation with educational institutions and associations worldwide.

09/23/2026

October brings a new chair to the table.

Meet AAIE’s AdminCONNECT, a monthly gathering for principals, deputy heads, directors and the senior leaders who help shape a school's day-to-day. You're the ones who translate a vision into Monday morning. You're the bridge between the strategy and the hallway, and bridges take a lot of load. This is a room built for you to set some of it down, trade notes with people who get it, and head back to your school a little lighter.

Our first AdminCONNECT gathering is Tuesday, October 6 at 8:00 am ET.

And Thursdays with AAIE keeps its rhythm all month:

→ Oct 1 · Heads of School monthly gathering, 8:00 am & 4:00 pm ET
→ Oct 8 · Nicole Furlonge on Adaptive Listening
→ Oct 15 · Myron Dueck on Presenting with Purpose
→ Oct 22 · Kawai Lai on Clarity Without Certainty
→ Oct 29 · Jennifer Abrams on Having Hard Conversations

Read those titles together and they sketch a whole leadership practice: listen closely, speak with intention, stay steady in the fog, and say the hard thing with care.

Every Thursday, 8:00 am ET. Come for one or settle in for all four.
Register → https://www.aaie.org/events/thursdays-with-aaie

09/20/2026

Thursdays with AAIE | September 24

What happens when service becomes more than a program, and instead becomes part of the heart of a school’s culture?

We would like to invite you for our next Thursday with AAIE on September 24, featuring Dr. Nick Glab, AAIE Superintendent of the Year and Head of School at Colegio Jorge Washington (COJOWA) in Cartagena, Colombia, joined by Aaron Muniz of Inspire Citizens.

Through his leadership, Nick has helped weave service learning, student voice, and project-based learning into the fabric of his school, creating a community where purpose, belonging, and meaningful learning can flourish.

Join us for a conversation about what it looks like when service isn’t simply something a school does - it becomes part of who the school is.

Thursday, September 24, 2026, at 08:00 AM ET

Connect. Inspire. Lead.

Learn more and register at https://www.aaie.org/events/thursdays-with-aaie

09/18/2026

Thank You for Another Meaningful Thursday with AAIE!

Yesterday, Thursdays with AAIE welcomed Kevin Baker, Director of the American International School of Guangzhou, international leadership transition researcher, and leadership coach, for an important conversation about leadership transitions in international schools.

Leadership transitions are pivotal moments in a school’s journey - and our conversation invited us to consider an important question:

What if one of the greatest opportunities to strengthen leadership success isn’t simply who we hire, but how we support leaders when they arrive (and when they exit)?

Thank you, Kevin, for sharing your research, experience, and perspective with the AAIE community, and to everyone who joined us and contributed to the conversation.

We are grateful for another Thursday spent connecting, reflecting, and learning together.

Connect. Inspire. Lead.

Not yet a member? Join here:
https://buff.ly/8UxHw1H

09/11/2026

Yesterday, Thursdays with AAIE welcomed Daniel Pink — and it was exactly the kind of conversation we hoped it would be.

For 25 years, Daniel Pink has been turning big questions into bold answers. The author of seven New York Times bestsellers — including Drive, To Sell Is Human, When, and The Power of Regret — brought that same spirit to our global community, showing up curious, generous, and ready to listen.

Guided by the questions and experiences of school leaders from around the world, our time together created space to reflect, exchange ideas, and explore what leadership looks like in a changing world.

A few takeaways from our fascinating conversation with Daniel Pink, as shared by Michael Adams at TRI Association:

💡 Don’t just add. Subtract. Moving forward doesn’t always require adding another initiative, program, or responsibility. Sometimes progress means deciding what we can stop doing.

💡 Start small. Ask yourself: What is the smallest thing we can stop doing right now to move forward or make headway?

💡 Daniel recommended Subtract by Leidy Klotz for a deeper exploration of this idea.

💡 Bring your community into change. Invite parents, staff, and students into the conversation rather than making change around them.

💡 Try “start, stop, continue” conversations with your community: What should we start doing? What should we stop doing? What should we continue?

💡 Boldness matters. Some of our biggest regrets come from the chances we didn’t take and the moments when we chose not to step forward.

💡 Practice self-compassion. It is something leaders can model, share, show, and teach.

Thank you, Daniel, for your time, your thinking, and your genuine interest in the work of our community — and thank you to everyone who joined us and brought their voice to the discussion.

We are grateful for the opportunity to learn and lead together.

Not yet a member? Join here:
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09/07/2026

Thursdays with AAIE is back - and we're opening the year with Daniel Pink. Some conversations you don’t want to miss. This is one of them.

In anticipation of joining our global community on September 10, Daniel Pink shared:

"I'm thinking we should have a wider conversation about the issues the folks are facing."

For 25 years, Daniel Pink has been turning big questions into bold answers. The author of seven New York Times bestsellers - including Drive, To Sell Is Human, When, and The Power of Regret - will join us for an informal conversation where you help set the agenda.

Bring your questions.

Thursday, September 10, 2026, at 08:00 AM ET

Learn more and register at https://www.aaie.org/events/thursdays-with-aaie

09/04/2026

What a wonderful way to begin a new school year together!

We were so excited to reconnect with familiar faces, welcome new ones, and open the year with our September 3 AAIE Global Heads of School Conversation. Your perspectives, questions, and willingness to share made our first gathering of the year especially meaningful.

These trusted spaces for connection, reflection, and mutual support are at the heart of the AAIE community - where leaders can speak openly, listen deeply, and learn from one another.

Thank you to everyone who joined us and brought your voice to the conversation. We’re looking forward to another year of connecting, learning, and leading together.

Not yet a member? Join here:
https://buff.ly/8UxHw1H

09/01/2026

We've all seen it happen.

One person attends a great workshop, comes home full of ideas, and the building slowly absorbs every bit of that momentum until nothing changes.

A coaching culture can't be built that way. It changes when the people who can protect the calendar, fund the role, and hold the vision are in the room together, doing the work side by side.

So AAIE and AAICIS' Foundations of Coaching is a cohort for collaborative teams. Your senior leadership, present and committed across all four virtual sessions, beginning in September.

You'll work through the real hurdles international schools face, how to make the case for coaching, how to structure it for your context, how to keep it from stalling, alongside schools from multiple regions and facilitators from AAICIS who know this terrain.

Open to AAIE member schools. $550 per school for a team of three. Spots are limited.

Bring your team and register here: https://app.glueup.com/event/foundations-of-coaching-designing-your-schools-program-185518/

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08/18/2026

The best learning rarely happens alone. 🍎

Our Lead & Learn cohorts are built small on purpose: meaningful learning, real connection, and a community that stays with you long after the last session.

Four cohorts open this September:
→ MasterMinds 9.0 with Homa Tavangar, Kathleen Naglee, and Tim Carr (starts Sep 1)
→ AAIE Thrive By Design with Lauren Jones (starts Sep 8)
→ Foundations of Coaching with Kristen Moreland, Kim Cofino, Joellen Killion, and Tico Oms (starts Sep 15)
→ Future Foresight with Tricia Friedman (starts Sep 23)

Small cohorts. Meaningful learning. Lasting impact. Come find your people.

Learn more and register → https://www.aaie.org/leadership-learning

08/14/2026

A small change worth naming. What you've known as our AAIE Global LeadersThursday Online Conversations is now Thursdays with AAIE, same seat, same warmth, a name that says plainly what these mornings have always been about: you and us, together, every week.

Because that's the heart of it. Every Thursday, we gather for a real conversation with someone worth listening to.

Here's September's lineup, all at 8:00 am ET:
→ Sep 10, Daniel Pink on Leadership in a Changing World
→ Sep 17, Kevin Baker on Leadership in Transition
→ Sep 24, Nick Glab on Leading With Service at the Heart

And on Sep 3, a Heads of School conversation open to all heads of AAIE member schools.

Come for one. Come for all. There's a place for you here. See you there!
Register → https://www.aaie.org/events/thursdays-with-aaie

08/13/2026

Every school says coaching matters. Fewer have figured out how to make it actually work long-term.

That gap is rarely about intention. It's almost always about design.

Building an instructional coaching program in an international school is its own particular challenge. High staff turnover. Multicultural teams. Competing accreditation frameworks. Leaders managing multiple campuses. The off-the-shelf models weren't built for any of that.

Foundations of Coaching: Designing Your School's Program is a four-session cohort, led by , built for exactly that reality. And it's structured as a team experience for good reason: real, lasting change in how a school builds a coaching culture doesn't happen through one person attending a workshop. It happens when the people with the authority and the vision to shift practice are in the room together, doing the work together.

Each school sends a senior leadership team of three. From September through December, you'll move through the whole arc: why coaching exists at your school and what you actually want it to do, which models fit your context, the culture it needs to survive, and the systems that keep it from stalling in year two.

The facilitators are the people care about and continue to nurture this field:
Cofino, Founder and Executive Director of AAICIS, Dr. Moreland, AAICIS Research Team and author of A More H.U.M.A.N. Approach to Educational Leadership. Killion, one of the most cited names in coaching research globally and a member of the editorial board of the International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching in Education. And Oms, founder of Oms Leadership Coaching, who brings the rare combination of executive coaching rigor and genuine warmth to everything he facilitates.

🗓 Four sessions starting Tuesday, September 15
⏰ Tuesdays at 8:00 AM New York time
👥 Teams of three, senior leadership present throughout
🌍 Open to AAIE member schools only
💰 $550 per school team

This is for the leaders who know their school needs a coaching culture and are ready to build it from the foundation up, not patch it together as they go.

Learn more and register: https://app.glueup.com/event/foundations-of-coaching-designing-your-schools-program-185518/

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