Episode 1 · Education Leadership Series

Good Citizens of This World

Deutsche Schule Genf – German School of Geneva

Three leaders at a German school in Geneva on artificial intelligence, digital change, and the people who make a school work.

Geneva, Switzerland
K-12

0:00 16:39

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About this episode

A German school between two worlds

The Deutsche Schule Genf – German School of Geneva is a 50-year-old private school in Geneva, Switzerland, taking children from kindergarten all the way to the German International Abitur, with students leaving trilingual in German, French and English.

Kai Engelhardt, once a student here himself, talks about balancing tuition fees against Swiss running costs and about opening the school up to Geneva families. Susanne Brück explains why learning with all the senses and welcoming every family matter. Anna Löbmann describes the coordination nobody sees. Together they reflect on leading digital change one small step at a time, and on why it needs patience from leadership.

Chapters

Six parts, 16 minutes

In this episode

Kai Engelhardt

Managing Director, German School of Geneva

A former student of the school. Talks about fees, running costs and opening the school up to Geneva families.
Susanne Brück

Director, Language School at the German School of Geneva

Runs the school’s language courses and its Goethe examination centre.
Anna Löbmann

Coordination, Board & Management

Supports the board, the managing director and the head of school, and keeps everyone moving together.

The institution

Kindergarten to German International Abitur, Geneva, Switzerland.

Every minute I invest into this school is for the better of young people that will come out of a schooling environment and move on, and hopefully become good citizens of this world.

Kai Engelhardt Managing Director, German School of Geneva