03/09/2026
🌟 Congratulations to 15 IB educators from the International School of Zug and Luzern, International School Basel and ICS Inter-Community School Zurich on completing the Villars Institute’s Certification in Systems Leadership for Educators.
Bringing together educators from across disciplines and functions, the cohort explored how systems leadership can strengthen their practice in three important ways: enriching curriculum and learning experiences, bringing new tools and approaches into the classroom, and developing their capacity to lead change across their schools and communities.
The Certification comes at an important moment for IB education. As greater emphasis is placed on systems transformation, sustainability, community engagement, agency and collaboration, educators are being asked to prepare young people to understand — and shape — an increasingly complex and interconnected world.
Throughout the program, participants worked with practical systems-thinking tools and frameworks, applying them directly to their own educational contexts: connecting learning across disciplines, navigating complexity, engaging diverse stakeholders, building agency and mobilizing collective action.
Because educators are not only shaping what and how students learn. They are also leaders of change — within classrooms, across schools and in their wider communities.
Congratulations to this fantastic cohort. We look forward to seeing how you put systems leadership into practice and to continuing the journey together through our growing Community of Practice in Systems Leadership.
A special thank you to ISZL hosting us at Chalet Bergheim in Wengen - the school's outdoor education center for teachers and students.
