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.
Congratulations to this year’s recipients of the AAIE Margaret Sanders Undergraduate Scholarships, including NESA region honoree Eirini Caroline Sidereas from American Community Schools of Athens, Greece! She embodies the scholarship’s values of achievement, motivation, and service, and serves as a role model to students throughout our region.
We’re thrilled to welcome our newest Affiliate School: GEMS American International School Riyadh!
What does it mean to be your best adult self at work? Abril connects with Jennifer Abrams on the concept of lifelong growth.
How can we enable students to take their learning outside the four walls of the classroom? Join LeeAnne Lavender for this discussion of purpose-driven pedagogy and multimedia storytelling.
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