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Students share their experiences from MUNiM 2016
THINK Global School’s Model United Nation’s team, the TGS Sharks, recently traveled from Sarajevo to Mostar to participate in the Model United Nations in Mostar (MUNiM) conference. The theme of this...
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A War of Kindness
In her celebrated TED Talk, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie warns of The Danger of a Single Story. “To show a people as one thing, over and over again, that is a single story,” Adichie states. The truth is, I...
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Students showcase their talents at the 2016 IB Art Exhibition
This year we have four students completing the DP Visual Arts course: Rony Tene, John (Jake) Ols, Tiana Seger, and Cameron Shelter. The artistic journey they have taken over the past two years...
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Head of School Jamie Steckart reflects on our time in Bosnia
Jamie at the old Ključ fort, Bosnia and Herzegovina Educators rarely talk about the concept of cognitive dissonance, which occurs when a student is confronted with new ideas that run counter to their...
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Seven interesting facts about Bosnia and Herzegovina
With THINK Global School’s term in Bosnia and Herzegovina recently concluded, we thought we’d share a few interesting facts about the heart-shaped country with you. Whether you are working on a school...
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Seven interesting facts about Florence, Italy
This week, THINK Global School kicked off its term in Florence, Italy. To celebrate, we’ve put together a list of seven interesting facts about our new host city. So whether you’re working on a school...
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Grade 10 provide meals -and dignity- to Rome’s homeless
Recently, during our Rome weXplore, our grade 10 students had the opportunity to participate in a particularly fulfilling place-based learning lesson by teaming up with the non-profit organization...
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Anti-establishment politics and the rise of Italy’s Five Star Movement
MP Alfonso Bonafede discuss Italy’s anti-establishment politics This week, Nick Martino and his Grade 11 social and cultural anthropology students welcomed Alfonso Bonafede, a member of Italy’s...
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weXplore: Italy for the food-obsessed
This week, ten of our students (accompanied by supervisors and fellow culinary enthusiasts Jarret Voytilla and Lindsay Clark) departed Florence for Emilia-Romagna, the region north of Tuscany that is...
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weXplore: the gastronomic payoff
After honing their culinary skills during the Emilia-Romagna weXplore, our ten young chefs returned to Florence ready to mince, peel, and puree a spectacular six-course meal for their classmates and...
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weXplore: Venice, Italy
With our time in Italy winding to a close, the grade 10 and 11 students have embarked on their final weXplore of the school year. Some of the students elected to join teachers Adam Sturman, Chung Man...
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weXplore: service learning in Biancavilla, Italy
During our time in Biancavilla, we stayed with a family who work together to create a safe space for newcomers and locals to Italy escaping a troubled time in their life. The family’s hearts are open...
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Seven interesting facts about Peru
As THINK Global School returns for another year of place-based learning and travel, our first semester begins in Peru’s Urubamba Valley, also known as the Sacred Valley of the Incas. Before we ascend...
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Why do students make mistakes in mathematics?
At TGS, like at most high schools, there is no shortage of students with the capacity to understand mathematical concepts when the conditions are ideal — trust me here. But what about when the...
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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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¿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),...
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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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...
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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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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...
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