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This month, THINK Global School and its traveling community of 36 have relocated 5,000 miles from Chiang Mai, Thailand to the third term location of Berlin, Germany. We landed into the open arms of Berlin Brandenburg International School, and students have already begun learning about European history and reflecting on literature about Berlin. As part of a new term, teachers are learning new technologies and practices to incorporate in their...

Director of Curriculum Sally Booth was invited to attend an inspiring conference at the United Nations with government officials, scholars, and activists this past week. The conference was a high-level meeting on the topic of well-being and happiness and was hosted by Bhutan's Prime Minister Jigmi Y. Thinley.   This meeting was a way to reach out to the international community to share alternative concepts of growth and development. The...

While enrolled at THINK Global School, students are encouraged to be introspective during the course of their studies and travels. When the students document these thoughts, we are often delighted with the results. Below you can find the reflections of our Bhutanese ninth grader Gawa, who intertwines a story from her youth with the beauty of flowers. For once, no flowers. I suppose I have lived a fairly fruitful life...

AT THE END OF TERM 2 in Chiang Mai, Thailand, students embarked on a barge trip that took them down the Chao Praya river. On this week-long journey, the 25 students were extended a challenge to compete against each other in a film competition. Asked to use their iPhones (or other cameras) and weXplore experiences, they created short films that covered a journey, whether in the style of the Odyssey,...

While visiting the Golden Triangle in northern Thailand, we had the joy of visiting Think Elephants International, where Dr. Joshua Plotnik explained how they study domesticated elephants in order to promote elephant conservation. In this video, Dr. Plotnik explains some of the basic understandings about elephants on our visit to their grounds in Chiang Saen.   After watching their many experiments on behavior, Dr. Joshua Plotnik and Dr. John...

TGS students took the initiative while at PTIS to explore the campus farm and develop their own pre-CAS activities related to farm improvements. Utilizing elements of science, experience gained from Me to We, their own ingenuity, our students created various teams each dedicated to a different project on farm improvement, all while closely working with Chrissie Bleach, the Farm Coordinator for PTIS. Not only was it an excellent training opportunity...

On the very first day of classes in Cuenca, Ecuador, 9th grade students read an excerpt from from The Native American Broadcasting System, which begins with the line "I am the essence of Pow-Wow." Students were tasked to write their own "I am" poems. Fast forward to this week in Thailand, where 9th-grader Russell was looking back at old work for material while writing his memoir. He found this artifact...

  AS OUR 9TH AND 10TH grade students move through their studies and creep closer to the International Baccalaureate Diploma Programme (IBDP), THINK Global School is providing opportunities like this one to help prepare them for the task ahead. Matthew Albert visited TGS and PTIS on February 17th, 2012 to talk about his experience with the IBDP and how his CAS project directed his life goals from that point...

  “Ow! Why in the world did I bring heels!” utters Alice, leaning against the wall as we climb up the stairs. Her hair is pinned up, her make-up impeccable. I look down at my own red, three-inch, suede ones. They stuck out from the black and white flats in the crowd. Carrying a briefcase and a backpack, everyone trudges to the different committee rooms. A nervous chatter fills the...

  LAST SATURDAY was an eventful day. Together, Gawa, Ambika, and I formed a tennis tournament within a week's time! We had twelve people participating through out the whole tournament. We decided to create doubles teams and split them up into two different pools. In the end we had our final match under the lights: Ambika & Liam vs. Gawa & Gijs. Battling for third place, we had Willem &...