The Community School has, for 30 years, used the world as its classroom. We bring what we learn in South Tamworth to others–next door and across the world–and we learn from people doing authentic research or grassroots action in far-flung places. Our students study at Schola Humanitas, a math and science school in Litvinov, Czechia and have a long history of exchange with the Monte Verde Friends School in Costa Rica. We visit cities and tiny rural villages, meeting with scientists and farmers, students and professors.
We observe and learn. We do and learn. We volunteer. We see sights. Simply spending time with folks of different cultures–whether those cultures be from another country, or perhaps more complexly, from various regions in our own vast nation–is an enormously beneficial growth experience. We learn to observe and listen, work hard for others, and glean from history. In the past five years, TCS students have traveled to, studied in, and rambled around Washington DC, Prague, Phoenix, Tucson, Durham, Boston, Burlington, Township 27 Maine, Berlin (Germany, not NH!), and NYC.
This year, in the first eight weeks of school, all students will travel for at least four nights away from home. We believe there’s benefit in feeling comfortable and functional outside the niche we know best. We learn from being the outsider and finding ways to overcome spaces between people.
Check out our travel plans for October and November 2019. Here’s where we’ll go and what problems or curricular areas we’ll be tackling with what we gain from these experiences.
Copenhagen
City planning for climate change
Energy production and transition
Social paradigm shift
Community resilience
Prep for rising seas
Montgomery-LA Bayou-Laredo
Racial Justice
Community resilience
Prep for rising seas
City planning for climate change
Climate change v. poverty
Constitutional rights of immigrants
Immigration and violence
Tucson/Biosphere2-Nogales
Problem solving for future
Creative thinking
Biosystem resilience
Weather Adaptation
Migration and climate change
Immigration and poverty
Immigration and violence
