Welcome to AAIE, where we lead into the future with vision, wisdom, courage, and integrity.

The Association for the Advancement of International Education (AAIE) is a not-for-profit association of international schools around the world promoting exemplary school leadership and research-based, effective and innovative educational practices. As an autonomous organization, AAIE was legally incorporated in 1966 with a mandate to further and continuously improve international education and cultural understanding across independent overseas schools. AAIE serves a diverse global community providing leadership development across the ever-changing and expanding spectrum of educational programming initiatives and issues.

DISCOVER WHO WE ARE

AAIE inspires and enables our global community of leaders to collaboratively build a more diverse, inclusive, and sustainable future.

The AAIE Mission is our declaration of the unique identity to which we aspire–describing who we serve, our specific purpose, and what we seek to achieve for our membership.  Our mission describes the extraordinary purpose of AAIE– and serves as a focal point toward which we concentrate disciplined action, effort, resources, and energy.  AAIE is your place to gather as a world community throughout the year – to belong, to learn together, and to know that to engage in envisioning the future of learning is the underpinning of success for our students.

The future of our schools depends on vision, wisdom, courage, and integrity. Let’s do the searching, discovery, and collaborative learning together to forge ever improving relationships and school communities.  

Together, we are leading the way.

We believe that effective leadership begins with the willingness to grow, adapt, and continuously reflect—and that leaders who model lifelong learning foster cultures of curiosity, resilience, and improvement within their schools. In a world marked by rapid change and increasing demands on education systems, it is more important than ever for school leaders to engage in continuous learning to meet the evolving needs of their communities.