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The Sauna, the Vihta, and the School: Why Rituals Matter
In a world that seems to be moving at an ever-increasing pace, with technology and modernity shaping our daily lives, it becomes crucial to pause and reflect on the ties that bind us to our cultural...
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Educator Adam Kemp Aims To Raise Caregiver Awareness By Running The London...
In April of this year, I will be running the London Marathon in support of Charity Dementia UK. I selected this charity to honor and celebrate the life of my grandparents who both suffered from the...
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CM1 Educator Spotlight: Amethyst King
Hi Amethyst, tell us a bit about yourself. I am a passionate educator with three years of experience, and I’ve just finished my first year with TGS. I specialize in the humanities, particularly...
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CM1 Educator Spotlight: Shasta Gray
Hi Shasta, tell us a bit about yourself. Hi, my name is Shasta Gray, and this is my first year teaching at THINK Global School. I received my master’s in teaching from the University of Alaska and...
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PBL Spotlight: Conscious Consumerism in Photos
Reason number 148,949 why it’s good to be Japanese: With an average life span of 83.7 years, people in Japan continue to outlive those in every other country, and Japan has now ranked #1 in life...
View ArticleA Message from Our Principal
As our term recently came to a close in Japan, I was reminded of the very first days of this academic year, way back when in Botswana. 40-something individuals from all over the world, meeting each...
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TGS / Iraq Peacebuilding and Entrepreneurship Summit
To teach students to be Changemakers, they must be exposed to them, often. After overhearing a rare conversation in Arabic here in Hiroshima, I did what all good global citizens and travelers would:...
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From Spinning Wheel to Fiber-Optic Cable: TGS Gives Goes to Bangalore
The economics and e-commerce module set out to understand the new age of Indian economics. Over the past five weeks students have learned and experienced the entire economic spectrum of India, from...
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HOS Reflection: THINK Global School and HundrED
This past week I had the pleasure of attending the launch party at HundrED.org as a representative of THINK Global School (TGS). If you aren’t familiar with HundrED, their mission is to help schools...
View ArticleStaff Spotlight: Jarret Voytilla
What is your role at TGS? We all wear many hats here at TGS, where we are lucky enough to grow and explore our own professional dimensions. My personal hat collection includes jack-of-all-trades...
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Staff Spotlight: In-Country Coordinator Elyce Tunbridge
At THINK Global School, there is no such thing as typical. From our curriculum to our students and the roles of our staff members, we are always pushing past what might be considered normal in an...
View ArticleHOS Jamie Steckart reflects on the 2016-17 school year
From the Andes Mountains to the Pacific Northwest, TGS ended its year on a high note, graduating the Class of 2017 on a perfect night with the Canadian Rocky Mountains serving as a gorgeous backdrop....
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Changemakers in a divided world
It is clear that we live in a divided world, one riddled with bigotry, inequality, and ignorance. We live in a world where car bomb blasts force a routine ring upon Afghan ears, where American...
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Bold moves: how TEDxTeen taught us it’s ok to fail
“You can’t arrest an idea,” tweets Jake Davis, the day before his arrest. Five years prior to sharing his story on the TEDxTeen London stage, Jake was locked up for posing a threat to national...
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9 teamwork skills learned from building an igloo
In many of the Inuit languages, including Inukitut, the word iglu typically means house, but it can refer to many types of buildings, constructed from a range of materials. This includes the...
View ArticleHead of School Jamie Steckart reflects on our time in Morocco
Recent events have caused me to pause and reflect. Reading the news cycle, one gets a warped sense of the world becoming a more dangerous place, and that the root cause of this danger is Islam. We see...
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Seven interesting facts about Morocco
After exploring Peru’s Sacred Valley of the Incas during our first term, THINK Global School is ready to start anew in the city of Rabat, Morocco’s capital. Before our students meander through the...
View ArticleThe radical rethink of THINK Global School
“Schools are failing to prepare students for the future!” shouts every progressive educationalist to ever step on a TED stage in the 21st century. The world’s most renowned thought leaders have...
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¿Por qué travel? Learning on the road
I often hear from others that I have the “craaaaaziest” job. “You get paid,” they ask, “to travel the world?” And it’s true. I get paid to travel the world. I’m a teacher at THINK Global School (TGS),...
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Memory Project: painting portraits for disadvantaged youth
During our spring term in Florence, Italy, four of my IB Visual Arts students (Galek, Lisa, Samaya, and Natascha) volunteered to create portraits of disadvantaged youth for the non-profit organization...
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