If you have visited us before, you will notice things look rather different. Over the past few weeks we have rebuilt the LYIS website for the new academic year, and for the first time the blog, the news and everything else we do sit together on one site.
That was the main thing we wanted to fix. The Principal’s Blog and our news used to live on separate sites, which meant a lot of good writing was hard to find. Now all of it is here: nearly 200 blog articles by international school leaders, sorted by topic, and the news going back to our first school visits. If you saved a link to an old article, don’t worry. It still works and will bring you to the same piece on the new site.
More to read
All ten issues of the LYIS digital magazine are on one page now, so you can catch up on any you missed. There is a shelf of books written by our members, which turned out to be longer than we expected when we started gathering them. And Nasreen Hassan’s LYIS Book Club has its own page. This month the club is reading Teach Like Your Heart Is On Fire, if you fancy joining in.
You can also comment on articles again. Comments are checked by the team before they appear, so it may take a day or so for yours to show.
Courses and events
We have rewritten the LYIS-PQ and LYIS-L pages so they answer the questions people actually ask us: who the course is for, what you study, how long it takes and what it costs. Each has an enquiry form that comes straight to the team. The Events page leads with whatever is next, and there is a countdown to #LYIS27 in Phnom Penh, 12 to 14 March 2027. The programme is still being finalised, so sign up on that page if you want to hear the moment it is ready.
Who we are
There is now a page on how LYIS started, which goes back to a set of notes written after work in 2020. You can also meet the team, along with the members who give up their own time to run our committees and societies, and look through the photos from Hanoi, the library courses and our school visits.
Thinking of joining?
The membership page sets out what you get for each level, including mentoring, member prices on our courses and first call on conference places. It also shows something we don’t think we explained well before: if you plan to take LYIS-PQ, joining first works out cheaper than taking the course as a guest. Signing up takes a couple of minutes.
Have a wander, and tell us what you think. If something is missing or doesn’t work, or you’d just like to talk through your next step, get in touch. A real person reads every message.
