Principal's Blog

Connect Your People To Your Purpose

By André Double: Author – Leading Your International School. “Schools and our organisations are being reinvented”. (Double & Cook) Leading Your International School, 2023). Now...

Apprenticeships as a Style of Learning

By Jonathan Gastel- Principal at Cogdel School Chengdu, China Apprenticeships- the third step in vocational education- exist in part because much of knowledge needs to be learned by observation and...

Empowering Teachers: The Power of a Career Path Program

By Kenneth Tuttle Wilhelm-  IB DP & MYP Coordinator at Mont’Kiara International School. Introduction: In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, schools are realizing...

End of School Year Review

By Chris Nash – International School Principal, Beijing.  BA (cantab), PGCE, MA ( Education Management), NPQH. Whichever level of school leadership you’re working at now, the habit and...

Levelling-Up International School Leadership: Insights from Alice Smith International School Kuala Lumpur

We are thrilled to share with you some exciting news about our recent visit to Alice Smith International School in Kuala Lumpur! As part of our ongoing mission to level-up international school...

What Is An Effective School Culture?

By André Double- Founder & Author of Leading Your International School. “If culture was a house, then language was the key to the front door, to all the rooms inside”.  Khaled...

FlexEd: A Catalyst for Rapid School Growth

By Kai Vacher- Principal, British School Muscat and British School Salalah. An Invitation   A letter arrived at my school inviting both my Chair of Governors and me to meet with Oman’s...

Helping You Prepare For Your Leadership Journey

Leading Your International School (LYIS) is thrilled to announce the addition of German Rincon as Head of Leadership Resource Design and Development. In this exciting new role, German will be...

Surviving Exam Season

By Chris Nash- International School Principal, Beijing. BA (Cantab), PGCE, MA ( Education Management), NPQH. As we enter the summer exam season, I’ve looked back over 20 years of preparing students...