Actions by the IB community

IB Students with completed playground building project

Regiopolis- NotreDame IB Students in Global Action: The Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring Project, 2007 Service Learning Trip

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.

Pay It Forward: Community Theme Initiative

A recent project developed by the North American sub-regional group for IB in the province of British Columbia in Canada has helped our member schools build on the IB community theme: Sharing our humanity.

"Connect with the Community by Sharing our Humanity"

CAS programme at the INDUS International School is pursued across the curriculum from IB PYP through to the IB Diploma programme with a varied focus with the one common goal of achieving a connect with the community by sharing our humanity.

Broughton High School students find out about Costa Rica from fellow IB students

Our students have formed a Global Cafe Club with the goal of connecting with other IB students in various parts of the world. The club members have sent inquiries to various IB schools around the world asking for letters from students. At the meeting today, the president shared letters that had just arrived from IB students at The British School of Costa Rica in San Jose.

IB North America conference, Chicago, July 2007

IB North America's 2007 conference included two keynote speeches relating to the community theme, from Stephen Lewis and Jean-François Rischard.

Watch a short video of a recent speech by Stephen Lewis below.

World Conference for Heads of IB World Schools, 2007

Three keynote speeches at this conference inspired participants on topics relating to the community theme: sharing our humanity.

The explosion that shook the world. Responding to disasters through music - suggestions from Sim Sze-Ying

Sim Sze-Ying of Suzhou Singapore International School describes how she devised MYP music lessons around the topic "emergencies and disasters".

Includes unit description, introductory notes and videos.

Watch one video below, on students' compositions in response to the Chernobyl disaster.

Watch the other video (musical compositions responding to a fictional asteroid hitting the earth) by following this link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9UJmiXPEiI