
Explore how educators can foster ecological harmony, student agency, and hopeful, place-based learning through regenerative practices in schools, as seen in NESA's film, The Regenerative School.
For more than 50 years, NESA has delivered on this mission via intertwined systems of care and quality programming, focusing not only on ideas and knowledge, but also on nurturing and relationships that allow for transformational learning and system impact.
NESA programs are curated to foster deep understanding and support sustained and systemic solutions that impact student learning.
NESA’s world-class professional learning program cultivates professional growth and human connection in service of student success.
Elementary or secondary private independent American/international overseas school or school system accredited by a NESA-recognized accreditaion agency.
Any school that supports NESA's mission and vision, shares NESA's core values, and wishes to participate in NESA's professsional learning program.
Any organization that supports NESA's mission and vision, shares NESA's core values, and wishes to participate in NESA's conferences and institutes.
NESA fosters community above all else, and I believe that is its competitive edge.
PD is ubiquitous these days, but people are looking for an experience that fills their
hearts as much as their heads. I believe NESA does that.
— Leadership Event participant
Living in a region so vast and complex has strengthened professional generosity, emboldened innovation across schools, and firmly established collaboration as the corner-stone of NESA’s success.
NESA Member School Communities of Practice meet monthly on Zoom in Live Forums to collaborate on our common goal of school transformation.
NEW! Strategic Support Sessions for NESA Member Schools are online, collaborative meetings with specialists to build connections, receive consultation, and engage in strategic planning.
Explore how educators can foster ecological harmony, student agency, and hopeful, place-based learning through regenerative practices in schools, as seen in NESA's film, The Regenerative School.
Join child protection experts from the International Center for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC) at the International School of Azerbaijan, September 12-13, 2025, for Level I and II in-person workshops on online safety, risk assessment and safer recruitment for safer schools. Ideal for child protection teams and all who work in schools to protect children.
Over 150 educators gathered at ACS Athens for NESA’s second annual Learning Futures Summit, exploring conscious citizenship, digital literacy, and regenerative education through workshops, plenaries, film, and collaborative exchange.
This year’s NESA Heads Summit brought together 26 Heads of School and 18 spouses/partners for two days of reflection and connection in an inspiring setting – the Greek island of Hydra. It was a restorative experience of collaborative learning, belonging and deepening relationships.
We are each other’s
harvest;
we are each other’s
business;
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.
— Gwendolyn Brooks