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11 years ago

Kindergartners Chat with Tamagawa Buddies During Video Conferences

Thanks to video conferencing, even students as young as kindergarten can participate in Harker’s successful global education program. Long before the much-anticipated exchange program…

Global Education

12 years ago

Visiting Tamagawa Students Explore Classes, Make Trip to Stanford

A new contingent of visiting students arrived from Tokyo’s Tamagawa Gakuen last month, again experiencing the rich life of Harker students firsthand. The 25…

Global Education

13 years ago

New Lower School Global Education Project Launches

A new global education project is launching at Harker. Harker grade 4 and 5 students will be corresponding and exchanging cultural items with Ethiopian…

Global Education

14 years ago

Fifth Graders Exchange Homework with Overseas Friends

Students in Shelby Guarino’s Gr. 5 English class recently became interested in the homework assignments of students around the world. In order to facilitate…

Global Education

14 years ago

Students Welcome Spring with Educational Poster Exchange

“Mr. Goodwin, is everything good in Japan?” a student asked English teacher Colin Goodwin as he surveyed posters and Japanese treats. It was a…

Global Education

14 years ago

Tamagawa Teacher Observes, Brings Japanese Culture to Harker on Visit

In January, Manami Iso, a teacher from Tamagawa Gakuen in Tokyo, visited Harker for a chance to see and experience the school first-hand. She…

Global Education

15 years ago

Enthusiastic Teacher Returns from Japan

The two weeks LS computer science teacher Joe Chung was at Tamagawa School flew by. “In that short amount of time, I had the…

Global Education

15 years ago

Fifth Graders Skype China

Advanced technology has brought Harker students father down the global education road. Tobias Wade‘s Gr. 5 World Geography class enjoyed a video conference with…