How Three International Schools Are Expanding Student Choice
For schools around the world, one question keeps surfacing: how can we offer more personalized, interest-driven learning experiences without overextending faculty or resources?
At GOA, we partner with 140+ schools globally to help answer that question. Below, see how three international schools are using GOA to expand course offerings, support student agency, and build future-ready learning pathways.
International School of Prague (Czech Republic)
Challenge: Designing flexible, personalized pathways for a globally minded student body.
Approach: As part of its IB Career-related Programme, ISP integrates GOA to offer students a wide range of courses—well beyond what the school could deliver on its own. Students use GOA to build individualized learning plans, from STEM and psychology to Japanese and journalism.
Why it Works: GOA courses offer the flexibility ISP needs to empower student choice while maintaining rigorous, application-based learning. Students engage in real-world topics while staying on track with graduation and university requirements.
“GOA’s strength is in how it helps us create truly personalized pathways. We see it becoming an even bigger part of how we support students in finding the right academic and career direction.”
— Karen Ercolino, Coaching Coordinator for IB DP/CP, ISP
American International School of Budapest (Hungary)
Challenge: Delivering impactful, interest-driven experiences that go beyond traditional diploma programs.
Approach: Through its evolving Global Impact Diploma (GID), a program that has now expanded to 24 other international schools, AISB integrates GOA to offer specialized courses that students might not otherwise have access to—such as Neuropsychology or Business Problem Solving. These courses help deepen student pathways while aligning with internship-based learning.
Why it Works: Students gain practical experience and access to niche subjects, and they engage in cross-disciplinary learning all while completing required diploma coursework. GOA helps AISB scale personalized education without adding faculty workload.
“GOA provides such a range of great courses immediately. You may have one or two students interested in something that wouldn’t be able to stand alone as a course at our school, but now they can take it online with other students.”
— Corey Topf, Innovation Diploma Coordinator & Global Pathways Director, AISB
International School of Panama (Panama)
Challenge: Creating an alternative diploma pathway that fosters innovation, flexibility, and career-ready skills.
Approach: ISP’s Innovation and Entrepreneurship Diploma uses GOA to help students fulfill graduation requirements while exploring subjects they’re passionate about. From philosophy to problem solving through engineering and design, GOA helps ISP students customize their learning and lean into an entrepreneurial mindset
Why it Works: GOA unlocks scheduling flexibility and offers exposure to new topics. Students build confidence and clarity in their future goals—some even shaping their university plans based on GOA experiences.
“With GOA, students can see so many different subjects and ways to learn about and apply those topics.”
"With the barrier to entry for creating your own path lower than ever due to technology and online learning, we need to give students more flexibility, especially in their final years of high school.”
— Bill Hatcher, Innovation & Technology Coordinator, ISP
Real Impact at Scale
These are just three examples of how GOA helps schools remove the limits of scheduling, staffing, and diploma requirements to offer more for their students—more choice, more curiosity, and more purpose.
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