Trinity College School’s Week Without Walls – Ecuador

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Helping Hands

From December 2nd-17th, 2011, a group of 14 TCS students and two teachers will travel to Ecuador as part of Free The Children’s Me To We Trips initiative. Chaperoned by Me to We facilitators, the group will stay among the indigenous Quichua people, working with them to build a high school. To support this effort, the students have undertaken a fundraising drive to collect $10,000 for their school build in San Miguel.

Helping Hands: 14 Students, Two Teachers and a Playground Make a Difference

Beth Downey
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It was an experience of a lifetime. On March 13, two Crestwood Prep teachers were accompanied by 14 students in grades 10 to 12 and embarked with the Me To We program on a mission to Ecuador to build a playground in the community of Calancha. Although they were sent to build a school, they built much more.

Helping Hands: It Takes a School to Help a Village

Ann Bianco-Harvey
TMS students learned how to make a positive difference through a service-learning trip in the community of San Victor, Dominican Republic.

Three students in their senior year decided to make a difference in the global community. As a result, they raised funds and supplies by involving teachers, students and parents from two campuses that led to the creation of a new school in the Dominican Republic  that is transforming the impoverished community of San Victor Arriba.

It’s a Bird… It’s a Plane… It’s a Town Hall’s Aspiring Superheroes!

Christl Dabu
It's a Bird... It's a Plane... It's a Town Hall's Aspiring Superheroes

They want to take action and be the “superman” they’ve been waiting for — now. Inspired by the groundbreaking documentary that flagged the public school crisis, a packed town hall in Honolulu was among a series of meetings across the U.S. that was part of the Waiting for “Superman” social action campaign. Read the story and view photos.

The World for Japan

Shane Alexander
Bloggers 4 Japan

It seemed like a normal weekday morning for me during the wee hours of March 11th 2011. I got up because I couldn’t sleep. Tossed and turned until I decided to check my e-mail and read the news for a while I brewed some tea. An earthquake hit Japan.

MacLachlan College Goes World Class with IB

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MacLachlan College Goes World Class with IB - Lisa Duranleau, Executive Director at MacLachlan College, with IB-PYP students.

To become an IB World school MacLachlan College went through a three phase planning and accreditation process to gain our IB Primary Years Programme (IB-PYP) authorization. The three phases included: the Consideration Phase, Request for Candidacy Phase and the Candidate Phase.

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