“All Hands on Deck!”: Keys to Building a Collaborative Culture!

This session aims to equip system leaders, school leaders, and teachers with the insights and tools necessary to build a collaborative culture focused on learning, with a special emphasis on strong collaborative teacher teams.

How do we get buy-in?: Collaborative Leadership and Creating Healthy School Cultures

This session aims to enrich the understanding of both school leaders and teachers with strategies that accelerate school improvement and the execution of a vision of excellence.

Hiding in Plain Sight: Identifying Gifted and High-Ability Learners in African International Schools

This session aims to equip educators in international schools across Africa with the tools, frameworks, and critical lens needed to identify gifted and high-ability learners who are being missed, particularly those whose ability is obscured by language, neurodiversity, behavior, or flawed identification systems.

Designing for Depth: From Differentiation to Genuine Intellectual Challenge

This session aims to move educators beyond surface-level differentiation toward designing a curriculum that creates genuine intellectual challenge for all learners, but beginning with chronically under-challenged students.

Ibrahim Yunus Rashid

Lesley Tait

 Leadership in Practice: Innovations in AISA Schools

This session aims to explore how Ubuntu philosophy, an African worldview emphasizing interconnectedness, dignity, and shared humanity, can be translated into practical leadership practices in schools through the framework of servant leadership. The workshop will demonstrate how the ten characteristics of servant leadership can guide school leaders in fostering trust, wellbeing, ethical governance, and community-centered learning environments. 

Responding to Child Protection Concerns: A Road Map to Navigate Challenging Cases

The aim of this deep dive is to strengthen participants’ capacity to navigate complex safeguarding decisions through case-based discussion grounded in child protection principles and local realities.

High-Quality Early Years Education - Believe in it, Build it, Sustain it!

This deep-dive workshop serves as both a provocation and a roadmap for educators committed to excellence. We begin by examining the "Heart" of our practice: our image of the child and the personal philosophies that dictate our pedagogical choices.

Play-Based Learning: Developing and Sharing Good Practices

We will dive into the intentional planning of Story Workshops, Phonics, and Maths, demonstrating how these focused 'mini-lessons' provide students with the tools they need to deepen their understanding during play.

Designing Outdoor Learning on Any Campus

This session aims to empower educators to transform any school environment, regardless of size or greenery, into a dynamic, curriculum-aligned outdoor learning space using sustainable and low-cost strategies.

Less Teacher, More Student: Building More Kid-Centered Classroom Experiences

This session will explore tools, methods, and practices that allow us to teach in sustainable ways, with what we learn from and about young people at the center.

Maximizing Their Potential (And Ours): Re-Engaging Learners Who Are Underachieving

This session aims to help us think together about the factors that impact disengagement and those that foster re-engagement while examining the methods, techniques, and classroom practices that allow us to sustain learning.

Designing Inclusive Learning with UDL and MTSS

This session aims to help educators understand how the 5 Ps of inclusive learning, MTSS, and UDL work together to strengthen Tier 1 instruction and create learning environments where every student can succeed.

From Inclusive Design to Student Agency: Leading the Shift to Student-Led Learning

This session aims to help educators design learning environments that cultivate learner agency by modeling UDL and exploring structures that support student-led learning.

The A - Z of Great Classrooms

This session is rooted in Roy's book, The A - Z of Great Classrooms, which is a celebration of that magical double act of teaching and learning, organised around the 26 letters of the English alphabet.

The Restless Leader

Rooted in the author's latest book titled 'The Restless Leader', this session will explore the traits, habits, dispositions and approaches of restless leadership: leadership that is possessive of, and rightly proud of, what it knows makes an organisation work effectively every day, yet simultaneously questioning the status quo.

Becoming Citizens of Somewhere - Sense-Making, Belonging, and Place through the Power of Stories

This workshop aims to invite educators into a personal and shared exploration of identity, belonging, and place using story, poetry, and creative reflection as entry points for the kind of deep sense-making that connects us to the communities we live in, learn in, and lead within. The session will equip participants with a repertoire of narrative and creative strategies (modelled and experienced firsthand alongside Kenyan poet and spoken word artist Njeri Wangari).

Empowering Student Voice and Agency: Leadership for an Emerging Future

This workshop aims to create a rare and intentional space where student voices lead, inviting educators to step back and listen deeply as 12 student leaders from international schools in Nairobi share their vision for the future of education, the meaning of agency, and what they most need from the adults who walk alongside them.

Chineme Ugbor

Noa Kantor

Lina Paumgarten

Beyond Cultural Competence — Practicing Cultural Humility in International Schools (the work beneath the work)

This workshop aims to strengthen the capacity of all school staff to practice cultural humility and build intercultural competencies that foster inclusive, responsive, and psychologically safe learning environments.

Growing Up with Devices: Impact on Student Wellbeing and Safety, and Implications for Schools

To empower educators, counselors, and school leaders to build proactive, whole-school systems that protect, strengthen, and future-proof student mental health in an increasingly digital world.

International School Leaders’ Guide to AI

This session introduces a practical leadership framework to help attendees navigate the AI era with clarity and purpose.

AI for Teachers

The session aims to provide comprehensive AI guidance to help International schools use artificial intelligence ethically and with confidence.

Elmeka Henderson

Renee Foster 

From Vision to Systems: Leading and Strengthening Student Support Services in AISA Schools

This session supports Student Support leaders in moving from philosophy to practice by strengthening leadership capacity, examining the systems that sustain effective support programs, and applying the AISA Student Support Handbook to real-world challenges.

Barry Freckmann

Russel Cooke

Improving School Finance and Operations: Board Dashboards, Data Visualization, Faculty Compensation, and Effective Team Management

This session explores practical approaches to strengthening school operations through better use of data, clearer governance reporting, thoughtful faculty compensation planning, and more effective team leadership.

Using AI for Productivity and How to Manage Foreign Exchange Risk

This session explores how AI can enhance productivity in the international school business office and how leaders can identify and manage foreign exchange risk in multi-currency environments.

Andrea Mwalula

Maipelo N'Guessan 

Rooted in Africa: Reimagining Identity and Belonging in International Schools

This session aims to explore how African philosophies, cultural perspectives, and community-centered ways of knowing can deepen and transform how identity and belonging are understood and practiced within international schools operating in African contexts.