Category: Faculty

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...

(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....

His stories are mythical portraits of real-life Latin America. He is a revealer of human truths -- one who chronicles oppression, magic, miracles and love. It was over a year ago when I first introduced my students to renowned Boom writer and political journalist of the 1960s-70s, Gabriel García Márquez. During this time, we would wander through Buenos Aires' bookstores, trying to get a feel for the Latin literary spirit....

With THINK Global School's senior trip to Mt. Kilimanjaro recently concluded, we thought we'd share a few interesting facts about the mountain with you. Whether you are working on a school project or planning a trip to Tanzania yourself, we hope you find these six facts about Mt. Kilimanjaro useful! Fact #1: Kilimanjaro contains 5 unique ecosystems Kilimanjaro is much more than just a mountain: it's five delicate ecosystems all...

The flowering of cherry blossoms trees is a telltale sign that winter's misery is coming to an end in Japan, but it isn't just the cherry blossoms that are undergoing change: springtime in Japan is characteristically marked by change in many facets of life. April 1st, in particular, signals a new start to the government's fiscal year; a new start to the Japanese school year; a new start to many...

The following post was written by newMedia instructor Lindsay Clark as an introduction to 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. The journey our grade 12s have been on for the last two to four years has been impressive in magnitude, mercurial in tone, and expansive in breadth. Little moments...