IB Community Theme | Sharing our humanity

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Action by the IB community.

Here you can post or read reports of ways in which the IB community has been engaging with, and taking action related to, issues of the community theme – with others or individually, in classrooms, through service activities, in school and out of school, at home and in our everyday lives.

Featured posts in action by the IB community - selected by the site moderation team

American Overseas School of Rome's links with Institute of Culture Brazil Italy Europe, Salvador, Brazil.

Belinda Fiochi describes the American Overseas School of Rome's service project Bridge to Bahia, which addresses four of the global issues of the sharing our humanity theme. It links AOSR with an innovative school, the Institute of Culture Brazil Italy Europe, in Salvador, Brazil.

IB Community theme in action at United World College-USA

Dear IB-ers,

We are a two-year, all-boarding IB Diploma school. We adopted the IB Community theme as the theme for our latest newsletter. In it, we highlighted some of what our school has been doing in terms of the High Noon topics (Global poverty, Education for all, Peace and conflict, Global infectious diseases, Digital divide, and Disasters and emergencies).

IB gift items: IB principles into practice

The IB store team has, in a small way, put IB principles into practice through the IB gift items range. An unfortunate result of the IB’s new visual identity was a stock of obsolete IB gift items featuring the old IB logo. Not wishing to waste the opportunity, IB staff looked into whether the unwanted goods could be donated to a worthy cause.

The Wealth of Nations - the connection between economics and sharing our humanity

Eighth grade students at Glasgow Middle School (Stuart High School feeder school) in Alexandria, Virginina, USA used Geographic Information Systems software to study the wealth of nations based on three different economic indicators.

Let's read!!!

we, as students, must encourage everybody we know to read more! nowadays, people don't read as much as they should. i live in Mexico, and there's a bookstore with great advertisements in which they don't want to sell, but tell the people to read more.

i'd like to share it with all of you, so you can also encourage people to read within your community. i'll translate it:

"read. it feels funny"

Institute for Humane Education

The Insitute for Humane Education, located in Surry, Maine USA, is dedicated to creating a humane world through humane education. The institute has been training humane educators since 1996, created the first training and certificate program in the US, and was the first to offer an M.Ed. in humane education. The website has more information about training, workshops and the Master's program as well as numerous resources addressing issues of global concern. A monthly Humane Edge newsletter is also available electronically.

Celebrating the Joy of Easter

Japanese IB students

Hi my name is Susan Vang. I am a Sophmore in the IB program at Luther Burbank High School. I'm doing a research on Japanese IB student in Japan, I would like to know what type of stereotypes the Japanese students has about the American people.

For example:

What clothes the Americans wear?
What they eat?
How they look like?
How they behave?
What kind of music do they enjoy?

If anyone can answer these question please reply back to me as soon as possible. Thank you =]

Southbank International School helps provide water for Mwereni School for the Blind

Southbank International School in London has a history of ties with the Mwereni School for the Blind, including an annual CAS trip made by our Westminster students every year.

Samaritans Feet

Our principal, Nardos King, has implemented a school-wide international community service project. Beginning today, we are collecting NEW athletic shoes in all sizes to donate to Samaritans Feet. Our goal is to collect 2000 shoes by the last day in March!