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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.

10/29/2026

Hard conversations may never be easy - but we can become better prepared to have them. A big thank you to Jennifer Abrams for joining us for an engaging Thursday with AAIE and giving our community practical ways to approach the conversations that matter.

From thinking more intentionally about when and how we speak up, to finding language that is both clear and humane, our conversation offered tools leaders can carry directly into their everyday work.

Thank you, Jennifer, for helping us think about difficult conversations not simply as something to get through, but as an important part of leading with clarity, courage, and care.

And thank you to everyone who joined us from around the world, shared your perspectives, and learned alongside one another.

Another Thursday of connecting, reflecting, and growing together.

Connect. Inspire. Lead.

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10/28/2026

What happens when the old map stops working?

For decades, international schools have made families a powerful promise: study here, earn the right credentials, and doors will open to universities around the world. Visas, post-study work rights, and shifting geopolitics are putting that promise under pressure. Meanwhile, falling birth rates, rising fee sensitivity, AI tutoring, and a crowd of online competitors are testing the traditional school model itself.
"Maybe" won't help a leader through either one.

Tricia Friedman of Shifting Schools is back to guide two new Future Foresight cohorts. Using futures literacy, you'll imagine more than one tomorrow, test your assumptions with senior leaders facing the same big questions, and walk away ready to act.

🎓 The Future of University Pathways
Explore three plausible futures for 2030 and what they mean for counseling, curriculum, parent communication, and how your school defines student success.
February 24, March 3 and March 10, 2027

🏫 The Future of the School Business Model
Scenario-plan what a sustainable international school could look like in 2035.
April 12, April 21 and April 28, 2027

Each cohort runs three 30-minute sessions at 7:00am Eastern | 11:00am Accra | 1:00pm Warsaw, and ends with a scenario set, a board-ready brief, and a research bundle to bring back to your team.

$135 for AAIE members | $250 for non-members

Learn together: register for both before November 5 and get a complimentary pass for a colleague on your campus.

Save your seat 👉 https://www.aaie.org/leadership-learning/future-foresight-community-menu

10/25/2026

Every leader faces conversations that are difficult - but necessary.

Join us on Thursday, October 29, as AAIE welcomes Jennifer Abrams, professional development facilitator, consultant, and coach, for our next Thursday Conversation:

Having Hard Conversations: Finding Your Voice Around What Matters

Drawing from her book, Having Hard Conversations, and her work with conflict and interpersonal communication, Jennifer will help us explore how to approach difficult conversations with greater clarity, intention, and humanity.

Participants will leave with practical strategies, action-planning tools, and a scripting framework they can use when preparing for their next challenging conversation.

📅 Thursday, October 29, 2026
🌎 Thursdays with AAIE

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

10/22/2026

Clarity doesn’t require certainty.

Thank you to Kawai Lai for an engaging Thursday with AAIE and for giving our community new ways to think about leading when the path forward isn’t always clear.

One of our biggest takeaways? We don’t need to solve everything at once. Small, intentional leadership habits can create the clarity teams need to make thoughtful choices, take action, and keep moving forward.

Thank you, Kawai, for sharing practical ideas our leaders can carry directly into their schools - and thank you to everyone who joined us from around the world and contributed your perspectives to the conversation.

Another Thursday of connecting, reflecting, and learning together.

Connect. Inspire. Lead.

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

10/18/2026

What if effective leadership isn’t about having all the answers?

Join us on Thursday, October 22, as AAIE welcomes Kawai Lai, designer, strategist, and facilitator, for our next Global Conversation: Clarity without Certainty: Leadership Habits for a Changing World.

When priorities compete, change is constant, and the path forward isn’t always clear, leaders still have to make choices and move their teams forward. Together, we will explore how small, intentional leadership habits can help us create enough clarity to act - even when certainty isn’t possible.

Expect an interactive conversation, practical reflection, and a leadership habit you can take back to your team and put into practice right away.

📅 Thursday, October 22, 2026
🌎 Thursdays with AAIE

Connect. Inspire. Lead.

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

10/15/2026

Thank you, Myron Dueck, for an insightful Thursday with AAIE!

Our conversation on Presenting with Purpose reminded us that an effective presentation isn’t really about the slides - it’s about the message, the audience, and the connection we create between the two.

Thank you, Myron, for challenging us to think differently about how we communicate as leaders and for sharing ideas we can put into practice the very next time we step in front of an audience.

And thank you to everyone who joined us from around the world and added your voice to the conversation!

Here’s to presentations with a little more purpose, intention, and impact.

Connect. Inspire. Lead.

Not yet a member? Join here:
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10/12/2026

🎤 Presenting with Purpose: The Art and Intention Behind an Effective Message.

Every presentation is an opportunity to connect - but are we making the most of it?

Join AAIE and Myron Dueck, Author and Speaker, on Thursday, October 15, for a behind-the-scenes look at how we build and deliver presentations that truly engage an audience.

Whether you’re presenting to faculty, students, families, boards, or your wider school community, this conversation will challenge you to think beyond the slides and focus on what matters most: purpose, intention, clarity, and connection.

Come ready to rethink your approach - and perhaps never build a presentation quite the same way again.

📅 Thursday, October 15
🌎 Thursdays with AAIE

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

10/10/2026

Thank you to every senior leader who joined our very first AAIE AdminConnect gathering.

What a room. Leaders from across our global community showed up, swapped stories, and traded their top tips for taking care of themselves while carrying schools on their shoulders.

A few ideas kept coming back:

• Own your calendar before it owns you. If rest isn't on the schedule, it rarely happens.
• Block time to pause. A walk, a window, ten quiet minutes under a tree. Treat it like any other meeting you'd never cancel.
• Let nature refill the well. You can't pour from a cup that's been empty since August.

The passion in that room was unmistakable. These leaders love their work, their teams, and their students. And they know that showing up fully for others starts with showing up for themselves.

If you missed this one, come to the next. Bring a question, a tip, or just yourself. We'll save you a seat.

10/09/2026

Thank you, Dr. Nicole Brittingham Furlonge, for a thoughtful and engaging Thursday Conversation with the AAIE community!

Our time together was a powerful reminder that how we listen shapes how we lead. Dr. Furlonge challenged us to pay closer attention — to the voices around us, to what may be going unsaid, and to what we can learn when we create the space to truly hear one another.

We are grateful to Dr. Furlonge for sharing her wisdom and practical insights, and to the school leaders from around the world who joined us and brought their own experiences and perspectives to the conversation.

Another Thursday of connecting, reflecting, and learning together.

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

10/08/2026

Two years in, our Future Foresight community kicked off a new year with Tricia Friedman, and the first cohort opened with a simple question: what do you want from a leader? It closed with a weirder one: what's your relationship with soap?
What happened in between surprised us.

Across three sessions, international school leaders from every hemisphere started by examining leadership itself, then played their way into the future. We picked Tetris and kite flying as metaphors for leading. We sorted through strangely hopeful signals: headphones that translate as people talk, a robot monk joining a Buddhist ceremony in Seoul, schools that welcome grandparents alongside their grandchildren. Then we stepped into a "scenario shower," rinsed and repeated the details that mattered, and exposed the plumbing of what each future asks of us.

By the end, one idea stuck. Hope isn't the same as optimism. It's a skill, it's action-oriented, and we can practice it together.

Tricia, thank you for pushing our thinking and nurturing our hope in the same breath, year after year. And to every leader who showed up, played, and stayed curious, whether it was your first session or your fifth: thank you.

Two new cohorts are open:
🎓 When the Old Map Stops Working: three plausible 2030 futures for university pathways. Three 30-minute sessions.
🏫 Built for 2035? Scenario-plan a sustainable international school model. Three sessions, too.

Each one ends with a scenario set, a board-ready brief, and a research bundle for your team.

Register for both before November 5 and bring a colleague for free.
Join us in the futures 👉 https://www.aaie.org/leadership-learning/future-foresight-community-menu

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

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