Category: Faculty

If you don’t know who Lucy Alibar is yet, you should. Not because she wrote the extraordinarily imaginative and moving film, Beasts of the Southern Wild. Not because her film was nominated for four Academy Awards, and not because director Benh Zeiltin turns a rural Louisiana fishing marina into a place where anyone feels instantly at home. You should know who Lucy Alibar is because she represents a new generation...

"The opposite of hungry is not full. It's healthy."   -A message seen during The Walk For Hunger Winter in the New England region of the United States can be a grueling affair, and the constant barrage of storms during the first quarter of 2013 reinforced this fact for us. The blankets of white snow eventually did give way to green, however, as spring inevitably arrived. This pleasant shift in...

During the dates of May 16-18, twelve of our students (Maya, Yada, Paul, Megan, Hannah, Charis, A'ntonia, Fatima, Tiana, Joseph, YuanYuan, and Anat) participated in the annual Global Classrooms Model United Nations conference. This conference, held in NYC, was unlike the previous ones that TGS has attended as it allowed our students the opportunity to visit the General Assembly Hall of the United Nations Headquarters for both the opening and...

There are moments as a teacher, or as a Head of School, where all you can do is to sit back and marvel at what your students are doing. It actually happens on far more occasions than we sometimes care to remember, but on every occasion there is that sensation of goose bumps and the inevitable tension in your chest. This afternoon, at the Gotham Comedy Club, was no exception,...

We are excited to be in a position where we are able to communicate to you the locations that the school will be studying and living in for the 2013-2014 school year. The 2013-2014 school year will be divided into two terms, as was the case this year, and once again we will be requiring our students to join us in an intersession when they will engage in very different...

Each THINK Global School yearbook provides a colorful window into the lives of our students, staff and faculty as they immerse themselves within their host schools and cities. Illustrations by artist Soren Thielemann add a creative tone to the student profiles, weXplore experiences and service learning opportunities that fill the pages, providing a lifelong reminder of the amazing days, months and years spent at the world’s first traveling high school.

During our trip to the Museum of Modern Art in New York City, we will have the opportunity to see some of the most influencial pieces of art made in modern times, including Claude Monet's Water Lilies, Andy Warhol's Campbell's Soup cans and Vincent Van Gogh's Starry Night. Amidst these works are paintings by Abstract Expressionists from the early 1950s. Jackson Pollock and Mark Rothko produced visually different kinds of...

The Big Apple. The City That Never Sleeps. The Empire City. The Capital of the World. It's probably safe to say that the city of New York isn't short on nicknames. In fact, there aren't many things that the bustling metropolis lacks, making it one of the top tourist destinations in the world. Our first term in the United States wouldn't be complete without a visit to NYC, and beginning...

Trigonometry is often a part of mathematics that students struggle with because they find it too abstract to understand the practical applications of this field. My 10th grade mathematics class was recently introduced to right-angled trigonometry, and as we talked about its various applications including bearings, 3-D shapes, and angles of elevation and depression, I decided to take them outside of the classroom to apply these skills. The task that...

An image from Pema's comic How I came to be: an episode of Frederick Douglass' life Some students loathe the word “assessment” and shudder in fear at any mention of the IB. Despite their hesitations, my students managed to build skills for their Written Task Assessments while demonstrating critical engagement with an aspect of a text or topic covered in my IB Language and Literature course. Once again, my students...