Anna Mara GraduaTEDTalk 2020

By Anna Mara, Head of Co-Curriculum

To the graduating class of 2020 at the International School of Tomorrow, Moscow, Russia

My  beautiful graduates.

We have come a long way together. And we have built something new at our school that will forever be your legacy. 

We made a full-functioning Student Council, we took a template of what it should be and gave it meaning, purpose and action.

We started the TED-Ed Club and manages to both look inside ourselves and share ourselves with the world. 

We launched a school newspaper and became researchers, reporters - journalists.

We have laid the foundation for and literally built our school English library and a place for us to brainstorm and bring our ideas to life. 

We have helped those who have less than us through our WE CARE initiatives: orphanage trips, charity bazaars. We have learned to fundraise and host large events.

This is not all, but it is enough for you to step out in the world knowing that whenever something feels like a good idea to you, all you have to do is dare to try. Things will not always turn out, we know that. Something will fall through the cracks, something will flop. But if you don’t dare you will never know what might turn out in the end, and it could and should be fun just trying.

So when you look back on your highschool years, remember this one thing. You have already done something seemingly impossible, and done a great job of it. So never miss an opportunity to try something new. Let your future take you into the unknown and believe that you have all it takes to conquer it. 

International School of Tomorrow. We reflect the world’s diversity and make our many languages and backgrounds work in harmony for the benefit of all. We take this skill with us wherever we go and it helps us change the world. We teach and study as one, yet we appreciate each other’s uniqueness. We learn in a classroom, but each student is given attention according to their ability and mapped our path of progress. When you join us, you become one with us, but you remain that special you.