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.
NESA Executive Director Maddy Hewitt explores Strategic Design – NESA’s shift toward inclusive, challenge-rich learning built on UDL and the NESA-AERO Weave. Explore the New Excellence era, where inclusion isn’t a retrofit, but the blueprint for purposeful, rigorous pathways for all learners.
NESA school leaders gathered in Istanbul October 16-19 for the 2025 Fall Leadership Conference, where they stepped into the story of learning to co-create and reimagine education as a story of flourishing, identity, innovation, and interconnection. Take a look back at the experience in our gallery!
The NESA community mourns the passing of Gail Seay on October 20, former Chair of NESA's Professional Development Advisory Committee, educational leader at many NESA schools, and one of NESA's greatest supporters, contributors, and friends.
At the recent NESA Digital School Project meeting in Istanbul, technology leaders discussed operational challenges and explored how to harness the potential of AI while thoughtfully responding to calls to scale back student device use.
We are each other’s
harvest;
we are each other’s
business;
we are each other’s
magnitude and bond.
— Gwendolyn Brooks
![Strategic Design: Inclusion, Challenge, and Universal Access in the New Excellence Era]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1755010392/nesa/np5cfeiicd3dblxlodsp/StS_Logo_1080x1080.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_2/v1755010392/nesa/np5cfeiicd3dblxlodsp/StS_Logo_1080x1080.jpg","width":512},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_3/v1755010392/nesa/np5cfeiicd3dblxlodsp/StS_Logo_1080x1080.jpg","width":800},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_4/v1755010392/nesa/np5cfeiicd3dblxlodsp/StS_Logo_1080x1080.jpg","width":1200},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_5/v1755010392/nesa/np5cfeiicd3dblxlodsp/StS_Logo_1080x1080.jpg","width":1600},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_6/v1755010392/nesa/np5cfeiicd3dblxlodsp/StS_Logo_1080x1080.jpg","width":2200}]){kind=logo}
![In Review: The NESA 2025 Fall Leadership Conference]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1763637834/nesa/tq0ffwtdio3s5v4kbzvf/FLC25_group_00593_thumb.jpg","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1763637834/nesa/tq0ffwtdio3s5v4kbzvf/FLC25_group_00593_thumb.jpg","width":511}])
![A Tribute to Gail Seay: A True NESA Friend]([{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto,t_image_size_1/v1762434436/nesa/ya05rlmweirrbmwdhl4f/GailSeay_thumb.png","width":256},{"url":"https://resources.finalsite.net/images/f_auto,q_auto/v1762434436/nesa/ya05rlmweirrbmwdhl4f/GailSeay_thumb.png","width":450}])
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