Global Programs

Expand Your Worldview

Since our first International Student arrived from Japan in 1890, Tabor’s commitment to global engagement and international exchanges has evolved with the school’s growth and the historical events and changes beyond our shores. With the dynamic presence of students from around the world who comprise nearly a quarter of our student body, Tabor students pursue travel, exchange, community building, language learning and experiential study across continents and oceans. In addition to our travel programs, we participate in virtual programming that promises to enrich our global reach.

In a school environment that aims to promote inclusiveness and tolerance, our international student leaders bridge cultural, racial, and political distances to create a community of respect and friendship for all. These events and programs help promote a sense of global awareness and service:

International Orientation: Matches 60 returning Global Partners with new students
Host family dinners: Tabor families welcome our new International Students for dinner and fu
International Chapel: A time to share culture and music, and what is like to study abroad
International Dinners: Student chefs offer recipes from home to our entire community (Read about the history of Tabor's International Dinners)
International Week: An extravaganza of food, music, performances, and games for community enjoyment and learning
Breaking Bread: A virtual exchange that promotes intercultural dialogue and collaboration among students in a global network of more than 12 schools and organizations. Topics include justice and human rights, gender diversity & equality, and climate action.
Global Ideas Institute Challenge: Pairs a cohort of Tabor students with mentors at the University of Toronto. Each month, students learn from expert speakers and develop strategies to address global challenges at the local level, ultimately presenting their project to a panel of peers and expert judges.

Academic Exchange & Travel Programs

It is our intention to have each of our students experience the world through another set of eyes, whether here at Tabor or through one of our many options to study or serve abroad. The list below describes some of our regular, ongoing, or past travel programs. To learn more about upcoming opportunities for our students, please see our Global Travel Programs for the 2023-24 Academic Year.

Exchange Programs

Short-term academic and cultural exchanges with class visits, homestays, and local excursions:
- China: RDFZ Xishan School (Beijing)
- Denmark: Rysensteen Gymnasium (Copenhagen)
- France: Saint-Denis International School, Loches, France
- Spain: Gredos San Diego International School, Buitrago, Spain
Drama Exchange with Ellesmere College, UK: We share a dramatic performance and attend classes while living in the dorms for one week.

Additional Cultural Immersion Opportunities

The Shattuck Travel Grant provides funding for any language and culture immersion programs during the summer.
The Idemitsu Grant supports a month-long summer study in Japan through CIEE Global Navigator.
Henley Royal Regatta (Crew) on years we qualify.
Egypt Squash Training: Tabor’s squash teams travel over Thanksgiving vacation for a week of training, cultural exchange, and exploration of Egypt’s unique landmarks.

Study Abroad Programs

School Year Abroad: an independent organization which welcomes Tabor students to spend a semester or year at one of their campuses in China, Italy, France, or Spain.
RDFZ Xishan School trimester exchange: offered to one junior each fall to study for a trimester at Tabor’s partner school in Beijing through their English-based AP curriculum.
The Island School: a marine science program for one semester in the Bahamas.
The Alzar School: a semester-long outdoor academic and cultural immersion program in Cascade, Idaho and Patagonia, Chile.
Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki: a semester-long, experiential education program with a focus on sustainability and the outdoors.

Community Partnership Travel Programs

Tabor students travel abroad to learn with and from communities far from our campus. In addition to building relationships with our hosts and partners, we have built houses, taught English, rehabilitated sick elephants, and enjoyed local food and cultures along the way. We aim to provide students an experience that reaches across different languages, cultures, and backgrounds. Past travel programs have taken us to:

Peru
Dominican Republic
Cambodia
Thailand
Vietnam

Where will you go?

Environmental Service Learning and Research

Through Tabor's Research Environmental Education Focus (R.E.E.F.) program, students embarked on a unique adventure to help monitor and save the endangered coral reefs and work on a land-based research project at the Gerace Research Centre in the Bahamas.

Tabor has been long recognized for the iconic research we have done since the early 2000s in the Caribbean with the health and population studies of Elkhorn coral reefs. The R.E.E.F. program not only provides data on the health and populations of coral to the U.S. Dept. of Interior, the U.S. National Park Service, and the U.S. Geological Survey, but has also developed procedures for coral surveys that have become a standard in the research community. After a small hiatus, in March 2023, Tabor students returned to the research experience at the Gerace Research Center in San Salvador, Bahamas. They worked to replenish coral reefs off the northern shoreline of San Salvador Island by creating fragment coral reef stands to help propagate healthy coral reef specimens. This experience widens our students knowledge of the health of the global coral systems and the type of processes that negatively impact coral communities.

We've also sent student researchers to the Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, and Costa Rica to explore the local ecology in these areas.

Current Students:
Apply by November 3