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Spending the New Year Holiday - Japanese Style
December 25, 2020Like many of us, thinking about the things that you wish could do this winter break, you may be wondering just how to spend the New Year’s..
5 Great Things You Can Do Over Holiday Break
December 21, 2020What a crazy year! Thanks to everyone who committed to staying safe and making sacrifices so our students could come to campus every day. We hope..
Tackling Global Issues - The First Online Model United Nations
December 11, 2020For nearly 30 years, NIS has participated in some form of a Model United Nations, and despite the COVID conundrum, this year was no exception...
Student Clubs Still Making an Impact
November 13, 2020In a typical year, at this time in the midst of Q2, a group of students would be busily packing their bags, including their finest business..
Google Classroom - Why the Switch?
November 6, 2020Ms. Sylvia Johnston, the Tech Coordinator at NIS, talks about all the benefits of Google Classroom, explaining them in terms of the four pillars..
How 3-Way Conferences Help Primary Students Steer Their Learning Goals
November 3, 2020As an IB World School, one of the driving beliefs at NIS is that students, as learners, should be partners in their learning and have..
Navigating A New Normal - Parent Information Day
September 28, 2020While we are delighted - and feel grateful - to be back on campus with our students, one of the regrettable outcomes of having strict safety..
What is Translanguaging and Why We Celebrate It
September 8, 2020It is not uncommon to hear around any given dinner table of a bi-cultural English/Japanese family, including my own, “Salt wo totte” or the..
Designed for Our Mission
August 18, 2020Over the past several years, as enrollment at NIS kept creeping up, the school needed innovative ways to allocate spaces for learning,..
Purposeful Design: How Space Enhances Learning
August 4, 2020Walk around the halls at NIS at any given time, and you will see the relationship that exists between students, their learning, and their..
Everyone Needs a Hero
July 6, 2020The Nagoya Action Heroes is a service action group at Nagoya International School, inspired and affiliated with Blank Noise, an organization based..
A Day to Remember
June 25, 2020It was a historic day in an unprecedented year. It was a day that no one was certain would happen. But on Saturday, June 5 at 4pm, 31 students of..
Virtual Self Portraits from Home
June 16, 2020There are so many subjects that, at first glance, would seem difficult to teach in a virtual world—some that come to mind are chemistry, physical..
Policy and Pillow Fights...
June 9, 2020Democracy, what is it? What is it in the context of the wider world, in our individual countries, and even in our classrooms? These are the..
Inquiring, Inspiring, and Impacting Online (of course!)
May 26, 2020As the COVID-19 situation started to unfold around the world, NIS, armed with international and local information and connections, began..