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I WAS BROUGHT UP in a school system when every day was more or less routine. Morning assemblies where the Principal talked and talked without bothering to even find out if we were listening. Classes were no different - teachers talked, we listened passively and everything was so predictable. But coming to TGS was like entering another world all together. Each hour, day and week was different and I cannot...

I think often about the person I am, and the person I want to become. My biggest hope is that as an old man I'll look back on my life and find not an absence of mistakes and regrets, but rather a life filled with passion, discovery, failures, love, beautiful people, and that I'll laugh heartily at the whole thing before kicking the bucket. Recently, I've watched, satisfied, as my...

A parallel can be found in education: rather than start off with a "must see" (or rather, "must learn") list, I asked them: what would you like to do in creative arts? Answers ranged from visual arts and theater to creative writing, but the most enthusiasm was shown for music! In collaboration with the director at a nearby professional recording studio, we put together a unit introducing the students to...

We’re Not In School Yet? A group of teachers and students sat in my room as we discussed a number of "girl" topics. As our conversation started to expand to a more general discussion, one of our students remarked, “my friends are home have been asking me if we have started school yet, but I keep telling them we even haven’t SEEN the school.” I waited for a moment and...

Yes, we haven’t met face to face. However, I wouldn’t be sitting here in Sweden full of expectations, excitement, and happiness waiting to meet you if it wasn’t for an inspiration of love. Yes, TGS will succeed. What comes from pure love, has to be successful. I can’t think of a more pure form of love than that of a mother towards her child. Alex, this is a gift for...

By Brad Ovenell-Carter, Assistant Head of School At THINK Global School we learn not about the world; we learn in the world. And part of that world is digital. I say “part of” because making the usual distinction between the so-called real and virtual worlds is misleading. It misleads us to thinking that the two are somehow different and that in turn leads us to acting differently ourselves and to...

TGS has two Interns or "Residential Dons" who will travel along with TGS students and faculty during the school year. But you may be wondering: what do TGS Interns do exactly? Both of our interns bring unique cultural and international perspectives to the TGS community. In short, an Intern is part residential adviser, part peer mentor, part counselor, part activity coordinator, and part “whatever may come up on a given...

Speaking with Steve Hargadon on Eluminate had that familiar quality of camaraderie that one typically experiences while sitting with a friend, talking over a strong cup of coffee, deeply engaged in a dynamic conversation. Instead, I was sitting in my own living room, in Montreal while Aron was in Beijing and hearing all the computer clicking sounds of participants exchanging ideas, emails, questions made it interactive and very 21st century....

Sandhamn Journey Photos and Text by Rachel Miletti Just to introduce myself, my name is Rachel Miletti, and I am here in Stockholm with my mother, who is developing the curriculum for Think Global School. Besides the fact that I wish I were two years younger so I could attend a school like THINK Global, I am really impressed with the way students are going to learn. I am reminded...

Australia.  For anyone who has not been there, the name may bring up images which have mostly been imbedded into our conscience by the media.  A giant island in the middle of the ocean, pretty much on the other side of the world from us, where things are upside down and backwards from our perspective, where their summers happen during our winters, and vice versa.  Where we've heard their drains...