Global 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.

• 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. 

• 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.

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?

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.