Beijing
Educator professional learning focused on authentic project-based learning, instructional design, and the practical application of deeper-learning strategies.
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Global impact
Powerful learning travels when it respects place.
ARIE brings practitioner-led professional learning to educators across countries and cultures. We combine internationally tested practice with deep respect for local expertise, educational priorities, and community context.
International professional learning
Not a presentation brought from somewhere else.
ARIE international sessions are interactive, practical, and grounded in the realities of implementation. Educators experience authentic learning, design work for their own students, receive feedback, and leave prepared to put new practices into action.
Global experience. Local adaptation. Sustainable capacity.ARIE across the world
A global footprint grounded in local context.
Explore ARIE training locations, partnerships, and educator representation across the United States and worldwide. Marker details identify the type of connection so each location is described accurately.
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Australia
Sydney, Parramatta, and surrounding schools.
From 2016 through 2019, ARIE supported Catholic Schools Parramatta Diocese through professional learning academies, school-based coaching, curriculum support, and leadership learning.
78Primary and secondary schools
3,000+Educators reached
2016 to 2019Multi-year system partnership
A systemwide approach to transformation
The work reached educators across Parramatta, greater Sydney, and surrounding school communities within the Catholic education system. Rather than treating professional development as a single event, ARIE connected academies to collaborative planning, curriculum design, school-based support, coaching, and leadership capacity.
Offerings included Think Global PBL Academies, Advanced Academies, Preceptor Coaching, PBL Science through Inquiry, PBL Numeracy, PBL Student-Centered Learning, and Meeting of the Minds.
Sydney and ParramattaCatholic Education Diocese of Parramatta
WilloughbyCatholic Education Diocese of Broken Bay, Think Global PBL Academy
China
Professional learning across four major cities.
ARIE worked with educators in distinct regional contexts, adapting project-based learning and instructional design practices to local priorities and educational settings.
Hohhot
Collaborative learning experiences designed to connect rigorous academic standards with inquiry, student voice, and meaningful application.
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Professional learning supporting innovative teaching, project design, assessment, and classroom implementation in a rapidly changing educational environment.
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Educator engagement centered on powerful learning experiences, effective facilitation, and adapting PBL practices to local curriculum and culture.
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India
Bengaluru
In Bengaluru, ARIE engaged university professors, students, scholars, and practitioners in professional learning focused on authentic project-based instruction, rigorous learning design, assessment, and implementation. The experience emphasized adapting strong educational practices to local curriculum, culture, and the needs of students and teachers.
KZ
Kazakhstan
Almaty
ARIE's engagement in Almaty marked the beginning of an educational journey that eventually led to the development of one of Kazakhstan's most successful schools. The early work emphasized authentic instruction, thoughtful project design, educator capacity, and practices that could be adapted locally.
PL
Poland
Women in STEM Conference
Steven Zipkes was invited to serve as a keynote speaker at the Women in STEM Conference in Poland. He spoke about project-based learning and the student outcomes it develops, including collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and agency.
MX
Mexico
Delmar International School, Cabo San Lucas
ARIE brought the Think Global PBL International Summit to Delmar International School in Cabo San Lucas, engaging educators in authentic project design, rigorous learning, assessment, and classroom implementation.
How ARIE works internationally
Built for transfer, not dependence.
Our goal is not to import a model unchanged. It is to help educators understand powerful practices, make informed adaptations, and build the local knowledge and leadership required to sustain them.
Listen first
Understand the local culture, priorities, curriculum, and existing educator expertise.
Learn through experience
Model the same active, authentic, collaborative learning expected for students.
Design for context
Adapt tools and practices so they are useful within the local educational environment.
Support implementation
Connect training to planning, coaching, reflection, leadership, and continuous improvement.
Bring ARIE to your context
Design international professional learning around your priorities.
ARIE works with schools, systems, universities, ministries, nonprofits, and education initiatives to create professional learning and implementation support that respects local goals and builds lasting capacity.
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