Inclusive Leadership Cohorts 2025-2026
We’ve concluded our final session for Cohorts 1 and 2 of the Inclusive Leadership Cohort, an applied, multi-year professional learning experience with educators and school leaders across Latin America.
Over three years (Cohort 1) and two years (Cohort 2), participants engaged in a structured sequence designed to strengthen inclusive leadership capacity and cultivate inclusive school communities grounded in dignity and respect.
At the core of the program were five interlocking components:
Intercultural introspection, including benchmarking and reflection using the Intercultural Development Inventory (IDI)
Anchor texts to establish shared conceptual frameworks and a common language for practice
PLC case study application to examine dilemmas of practice, surface assumptions, and test inclusive responses in context
Policy design and review to align values with institutional structures and decision-making
School-based action plans to translate learning into implementation through design, enactment, and iteration
Each year, our 2.5-day on-site sessions were hosted at International School of Panama, with deep appreciation to our gracious host, Dr. Audrey Menard, for her partnership and leadership. Throughout the year, participants convened their PLCs to review case studies in addition to attending virtual sessions.
To all participants: thank you for the graduate-course-level investment of time, intellectual engagement, and applied work, advancing from intention to the practices and policies that enable all students to thrive and flourish.