Accreditation and verification support for IB World Schools
Direct experience of IB accreditation, evaluation, and authorisation, brought to your school’s next visit or review cycle, so preparation is grounded in what evaluators actually look for.
Who this is for
Heads, principals, DP, MYP, and PYP coordinators, and IB coordinators at IB World Schools navigating an accreditation, evaluation, or authorisation cycle, or preparing the ground before one is scheduled.
Preparing for an IB evaluation, authorisation, or verification visit is a significant undertaking, and one most schools only go through once every few years. Between accrediting-body guidance, evolving standards, and each programme’s own requirements, it is easy for a leadership team to prepare thoroughly and still feel uncertain about what evaluators will actually look for.
What this helps you achieve
Policy that stands up to scrutiny
School policy and practice aligned with what accrediting-body evaluators actually look for, not generic best practice.
Confidence going into a visit
A leadership team and staff who know what to expect from an evaluation, authorisation, or verification visit, and why.
Experience across every IB programme
Support grounded in direct experience of PYP, MYP, and DP/CP, not a single-programme viewpoint.
Two ways we typically engage
Accreditation readiness review
A structured review of school policy and practice against accrediting-body guidance, so gaps surface while there is time to close them, whatever stage your accreditation cycle is at.
Evaluation and authorisation support
Focused, time-bound preparation for an upcoming evaluation or authorisation visit, from the perspective of people who have sat on the other side of the table as site-visit team members.
Scope, duration, and investment are agreed in writing for every project, and discussed on a first call at no charge.
How ynnoova works
Every engagement follows the same six-step pathway, scoped and agreed in writing before work begins, and ending with practice embedded, not a slide deck handed over.
Discover
Understand your school’s context, priorities, and constraints.
Assess
Review current capability, policy, and risk.
Design
Shape a strategy and roadmap that fits your school.
Build capability
Develop capability at every level of your school.
Implement
Put the plan into practice, step by step.
Review
Review what is working and adjust the next steps.
Why ynnoova
ynnoova’s founders are IB Educator Network (IBEN) members of over a decade’s standing, having led workshops, sat on school-evaluation site-visit teams, and contributed to curriculum quality assurance, on both sides of the accreditation relationship: inside schools and within the IB’s own evaluation network. Between them, their school experience spans all three IB programmes (PYP, MYP, DP/CP) and every level from subject coordinator to senior school leadership, alongside direct experience of CIS evaluation.
IB is ynnoova’s flagship specialization. The same accreditation-alignment experience extends to CIS, NEASC, WASC, and Cambridge-accredited schools.
Frequently asked questions
Does this help us work around an accrediting body’s requirements?
No. ynnoova helps schools align policy and practice with accrediting-body guidance, not work around it. Advice that appeared to help a school circumvent an accrediting body’s requirements would undermine the exact credibility this service is built on.
How is this different from a generic education consultant?
Direct, first-hand experience of IB accreditation and evaluation from the inside, as IB Educator Network members who have sat on school-evaluation site-visit teams, not just familiarity with IB guidance from the outside.
We do not have an evaluation or authorisation visit scheduled yet. Is this still relevant?
Yes. Accreditation alignment is an ongoing responsibility, not something to address only around a visit. Most schools benefit from a readiness review well before a visit is on the calendar.
Do you only work with IB World Schools?
IB accreditation and verification is ynnoova’s flagship specialization, grounded in direct IBEN-network experience. The same underlying approach is intended to extend to CIS, NEASC, WASC, and Cambridge-accredited schools as that work develops. If this is your context, a first conversation is still a good place to start.
ynnoova is an independent educational consultancy and is not part of, endorsed by, or affiliated with the International Baccalaureate Organization (IB). ynnoova supports schools through their own accreditation and verification process; the IB alone sets and administers its accreditation and evaluation standards.
Discuss your school’s next step
A short, no-obligation conversation about where your school stands and what a sensible next step looks like.