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Konnichiwa! As I write this our 9th-11th grade students are currently in the midst of a weXplore trip that should prove to be the highlight in a long list of place-based learning experiences that we've engaged in since arriving in Japan. Each term at THINK Global School usually involves one big weXplore trip to go alongside a series of smaller ones: our term in Germany included an "Amazing Race" across...

  This past weekend a handful of our students flew to Seoul, South Korea, to participate in the 2014 Yale Model United Nations (MUN). The MUN experience has proven extremely popular with our students, as it provides them with an opportunity to join a global-minded committee for a few days and debate real-world issues alongside students from other high schools around the world. Previous school year's MUNs have included the...

  In the first half of November, the grades nine and ten students and staff of THINK Global School engaged in a project that blended their learning and travels into an exciting mock business venture. The Tea Project was born from an acknowledgement that the world of education has a key role to play in developing graduates furnished with the necessary skills to compete in the business arena. Our starting...

We certainly do not live in a training vacuum this week! The seniors wrapped up their final "class" sessions on Friday and marked the occasion with a special dinner amongst faculty and administrators. As the food courses kept coming, so did the sense of finality and the power of this landmark. The speeches began with the teachers but eventually inspired the students to raise a glass and toast their years...

We have been publishing many tweets, Instagram images and Facebook posts lately with the hashtag #TGSTohoku. This is because one month ago, four of our students traveled to the Tohoku region of Japan to document the rebuild from the 3/11 earthquake and tsunami. This project was conceived by Global Studies teacher Nick Martino after his learning more about the rebuild that has been occurring in our host city of Hiroshima...

  Do you remember where you grew up? Was it a quiet little town with one church that everybody would visit? Or maybe you are from a bustling metropolis with so many houses of worship that you wouldn't know where to begin. A visit last year from author Steve Kluger set our students on the path of documenting their own childhoods. That project, titled "Where I Grew Up," is now...

(Editor's Note: to go directly to video of Dr. Jacobs' talk, click here.) On April 2nd, 2014, the students of TGS and Hiroshima International School played host to noted historian and author Dr. Robert Jacobs for a discussion on the grave realities surrounding nuclear fallout in Japan and the rest of the world. The lecture supplemented a unit of study called "Graphic Novels for Change," which was a collaboration across...

So many of us today have an impulse to memorialize little moments of beauty with a photograph, and since "the best camera is the one you have with you," these moments are often captured on a phone. The popularity of Instagram continues to indicate that people: 1. like having the power to edit photos in the palm of their hand 2. find joy in customizing a unique moment to capture...

Influenced by a past project at THINK Global School, I decided to write a “Where I’m From” poem about Rikuzentakata, Japan. I was honored to lead a documentary team of ninth and tenth grade students to the northern Tōhoku region to investigate the post-tsunami rebuilding efforts. On our final day I had the time to sit and collate the stories we had heard and experiences that were shared with us....

The following post was written by newMedia instructor Lindsay Clark as part of a series on our upcoming senior trip in Kenya and Tanzania, where our 12th grade students and a handful of staff and faculty members will attempt to scale Mt. Kilimanjaro. Last night, I came clambering up the staircase of the boys' residence to witness the majority of the senior class enthusiastically pumping through interval training with Adam....