March 24, 2022
Brazilian Theatre practitioner Augusto Boal once said, "We must all do theatre, to find out who we are, and to discover who we could become." As the..
March 22, 2022
“If there were no more cherry blossoms in the world, the spirit of spring would be more peaceful.” This poem by the Heian-period poet Narihira..
March 18, 2022
How many female scientists can you think of in 1 minute? This is a question I posed to students in several classes this week. Most were able to..
March 10, 2022
At NIS, we take the idea of our students’ Well-Being as paramount. It is defined by the International Baccalaureate Learner Profile and the UN..
February 18, 2022
Like many schools, our goals and how we make our decisions and view ourselves as a school community are defined in our mission.
February 3, 2022
Grade 8 Design Students went on a semester-long deep dive into the concept of “Design Thinking” to test their imagination and see how far it could..
January 20, 2022
Author Jacqueline Woodson said, “Diversity is about all of us AND about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.” In our..
January 11, 2022
On Thursday, February 27, 2020, the Grade 10s, their teachers, and parents gathered in the Commons for their concert – what a great evening it was...
December 21, 2021
It has been another crazy year of navigating COVID but we were so happy to welcome parents back to campus in the last weeks of the second quarter...
December 20, 2021
Like 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 holiday...
December 17, 2021
As an international school, NIS not only has a diverse student body, but we are proud of the diversity represented in our teaching staff, too!..
December 13, 2021
At Nagoya International School (NIS), between the International Baccalaureate PYP (Primary Years Program) and the DP (Diploma Program) sits the MYP..
November 24, 2021
What does it mean to be a star? Is it your popularity? Is it the quality of your work? Your ability to make news? The values you promote? The ideas..
November 12, 2021
Parenting is difficult in any culture, and because parenting doesn’t come with a manual, it is easy to get bogged down with second-guessing our..
