El tema para la comunidad del IB: "Nuestra humanidad: una realidad compartida"

Community and Service at The Beacon School

Beacon School

Beacon is a small privileged community within a sprawling city. The challenge is to provide opportunities for students to engage in community work that enables a greater appreciation of the larger community, its problems as well as opportunities, always within the development of an understanding of that larger context.

Kodaikanal International School - Building a School - Village Development Project

This small remote village of Thamaraikulam (Tamil Nadu, India) has been adopted by Kodaikanal International School for development projects. This project was targeted at building a village school for the underprivileged.

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

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.

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.