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Many international schools have become significantly better at onboarding over the last decade, investing more time and energy into helping new hires settle into countries, systems, and communities. That’s a positive shift. But while onboarding has become more professionalised, offboarding is often inconsistent, rushed, or poorly designed.

The end-of-year season in an international school is a unique psychological phenomenon. While colleagues in "stationary" domestic systems might be looking forward to a summer of rest, the international educator often finds themselves in a state of profound liminality, the "in-between." You are physically present in one country, yet your digital footprint, your logistics, and your heart are already halfway across the globe. It is a period defined by a foot in two worlds, and