Music Teacher Instructs and Conducts Tamagawa Bands
Upper school music teacher Chris Florio traveled to Japan in October as this year’s exchange teacher to Tamagawa Gakuen in Tokyo. While there, he…
Global Education
Taiwan Delegates Visit Harker, Schools in Bay Area
A dozen educators from various educational institutes in Taiwan visited Harker in late October to learn more about Harker’s administration, college admissions preparation process and test preparation…
Grade 6 Explores Yosemite, Meets With Tamagawa Buddies
The final two weeks of October were very eventful for the students of grade 6, who met face-to-face with their buddies from Tokyo’s Tamagawa…
Visiting Chinese Teacher Observes and Shares Culture
Clark Cen, a teacher from the Shanghai World Foreign Language Middle School, visited Harker from late September through early October to observe and teach…
Students Meet Tamagawa Buddies at Video Conferences
In September and October, three video conferences were held at the Blackford campus for grade 6 students to meet their Tamagawa buddies before their…
German High School Student Spends Semester at Harker
This semester, Julia Lambertz of Germany is not only attending Harker as a junior, she is playing on the girls volleyball team, too. Julia…
Returned Camera Puts Global Education in Perspective
A camera lost by a student from Tamagawa Gakuen during a trip to Korea was recently recovered thanks to a kind citizen who researched…
Students Explore Japan and Visit Tamagawa Gakuen
Traveling across international waters, 29 Gr. 6 students visited Harker’s sister school Tamagawa Gakuen in Tokyo during a weeklong trip to Japan led by…
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…
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…