Kathleen Naglee
What if we are experiencing the permanent end of stability in international schools?
May
20
08.30 BST/ 09.30 CET, 11.30 GST, 15.30 CST.
International schools are confronting deep structural disruption driven by falling birth rates, shifting migration patterns, and the decline of employer-funded tuition. The long-standing assumption of steady expatriate enrollment is no longer reliable in a world shaped by geopolitical instability and changing corporate models. To remain viable, schools must move beyond rigid systems and adopt an agility-focused approach built on flexibility and resilience that recognizes volatility as the new assumption.
Join Kathleen and the MSB team for a 75-minute live session that will go beyond presentation into case studies and open conversation. A must for leaders who know that leadership in uncertain times isn’t about just doing more— sometimes it’s about showing up with a beginner’s mindset and sitting in the emergent moment. We encourage you to bring your questions, your experiences, and your freshest thinking to this conversational gathering.
Carine Gibert and Zoe Badcock
Examining the stories we carry about our relationship with the living world
Sep
17
10.30 BST/ 11.30 CET, 13.30 GST, 17.30 CST.
Join Carine Gibert, interdisciplinary educator, Rights of Nature activist, artist and founder of Grounded In Motion as she brings forth embodied ecological education and curated experiences that awaken reverence for the living world. Together in this conversational gathering with Dr. Zoe Badcock, Founder of Zoe’s Environment, is a leading voice in IB Environmental Systems and Societies and sustainability education, Principal Examiner for the IB Systems Transformation Pilot Course and Co‑Chair of the ECIS Sustainability and Regenerative Practices Group.
Join Carine and Zoe in a conversation to reimagine how schools can tell an inclusive story about what it truly means to belong to the Earth, be a part of Nature, and to regenerate our roles as nurturing keystone species, creating abundance. We draw on art, indigenous wisdom, and ecology to explore these connections and what it means to live and lead for the future of young people, us, and the Earth as an act of self-preservation and generosity.
Dr. Kyle Coppes
Purposeful Leadership: Rethinking Professional Learning and Appraisal Systems
Nov
19
08.30 BST/ 09.30 CET, 11.30 GST, 15.30 CST.
Professional learning and appraisal systems in schools are often built around what is easiest to see and measure: walkthroughs, look-fors, rubrics, dashboards, and compliance routines. Yet when improvement begins at the level of observable behaviour alone, schools can end up strengthening performance theater rather than professional judgment, coherence, and deep learning. If lasting change depends not simply on better techniques but on shared purpose, aligned principles, and evidence used for sense-making rather than surveillance, then many of the systems we rely on may need to be rethought from the inside out.
Join Kyle and the MSB team for a 75-minute live session that will go beyond presentation into provocation, reflection, and open conversation. A must for leaders who sense that professional growth cannot be reduced to checklists and who want to explore more humane, coherent, and evidence-informed ways of supporting teacher learning. We encourage you to bring your questions, your tensions, and your freshest thinking to this interactive gathering.
Ruth Poulsen
Regenerative Leadership: Flourishing Leader, Flourishing School
2027
TBC
Ruth is an international school leader who has spent her career building cultures of care—from China to Colorado and soon to be in Jordan. She’s currently on sabbatical and writing Regenerative Schools, a newsletter exploring the mindset shifts and systems changes needed to prevent the crisis of educator burnout.
Further Details of her forthcoming Interbeing Assembly Live are coming soon.