Strategy execution for international schools
SchoolOS connects priorities, leadership decisions, commitments and evidence so leaders can see what is changing in practice, what is only activity, and where leadership judgment is needed.
Built for international schools where leadership changes, priorities compete and continuity matters.
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SchoolOS works with AI switched off. When AI is used, people review and confirm every suggestion.
Sample school · fictional data
A preview of the SchoolOS home screen for a fictional sample school. It shows two school priorities with their current status and one question needing leadership attention.
Proof
28 → 37
IB Diploma average, over four years, non-selective intake
+2 points
MYP 5 results over the same period
40 → 750
Students on roll, grown under our co-founder's leadership
SchoolOS grew out of our co-founders' experience leading a non-selective IB continuum school through sustained academic improvement and growth, informed by postgraduate research at UCL and leadership work across international-school contexts.
The problem
Priorities compete with urgent work. Decisions lose their reasoning. Commitments drift. Activity accumulates without showing what has actually changed.
Three moments
The school's focus, what is moving and what needs a decision.
Sample school · fictional data
Harbour International School · 2026/27
Needs your judgment
Who agrees the standard across MYP and DP, and who can overrule a teacher's grade?
Every priority tied to the decisions, work and evidence behind it.
Sample school · fictional data
What was intended, what changed, what the evidence suggests and what comes next.
Sample school · fictional data
Open question
Who agrees the standard across MYP and DP, and who can overrule a teacher's grade?
Discussed 12 May, 9 Jun, 25 Aug. Not decided.
Research-backed judgement
When a decision is in front of your leadership team, SchoolOS surfaces what the evidence base says about it, not to decide for you, but so the decision is made with the research in view. The school's own evidence and research-based interpretation always remain distinguishable.
Responsible human judgment
Most strategy software asks:
Are we completing the plan?
SchoolOS helps leadership ask:
Is the school changing as we intended, and what are we learning?
Discussed is not the same as decided.
A gap in evidence is not treated as poor performance.
AI proposes; a person confirms. It never ranks or scores staff.
Every important claim can be traced to its source.
SchoolOS uses AI to structure existing school material, retrieve relevant context and support careful interpretation. Research-based interpretation and the school's own evidence always remain distinguishable.
Two ways to begin
With Nordic Education Academy
For schools entering a new strategic cycle, leadership transition or period of change. Nordic Education Academy facilitates direction, priorities, roles and ways of working. SchoolOS keeps that work alive across the year.
SchoolOS with your existing strategy
If a strategy or improvement plan already exists, SchoolOS structures it into a living leadership rhythm. No new strategy workshop required. Start Monday.
What a pilot actually involves
Two months. We agree at the start what we want to see by the end, and at the eight-week mark we make a straight decision together: continue, adjust, or stop. No automatic rollover.
No new meetings and no new reporting. SchoolOS works from the decisions your leadership team is already making, in the meetings you already hold. Beyond that, expect around 15 minutes a week from the Head.
We do. Nordic Education Academy sets SchoolOS up using the material your school already has, your strategic plan, leadership minutes, existing priorities. Nobody on your team starts with a blank screen.
Your data is stored in the EU and visible only to your school. You can choose to share access with Nordic Education Academy for support, and withdraw it at any time. You can ask us for a full export, or for your data to be deleted, at any point.
Whether you are building new direction or already working from a plan, SchoolOS keeps priorities, decisions, evidence and learning connected through the year, so leadership can see what is actually changing.