One World in Action

Startled by the different barriers that impact students’ ability to be members of our school community, Student Equity Leaders committed to creating change within their school to promote accessibility using One World’s Agents of Change Curriculum.

8th graders from East New York Middle School of Excellence in Brooklyn, New York  and a group of 7th graders from Escuela Secundaria General No.4 in Acapulco-Guerrero, Mexico Students from Brooklyn and Acapulco pledge to achieve radical non-violence in their communities.

On June 5th (EST), One World United and Virtuous sponsored and assisted Westchester Green County USA (WGC USA) to celebrate World Environment Day with environmental clubs around the world.

Our Global One World  Community came together on Saturdays from March 4th to April 1st to be part of our annual COLP (Communities of Learning and Practice). Over 100 OneWorlders

Students from Claremont School in Ossining, New York met their global peers from Escuela Francisca Arizaga Toral in Cuenca, Ecuador and inspired each other to collaborate on EcoActs.

Even though Experimental Primary School of Taicang just joined the One World Sustainability Program this year, they found a creative way to reduce their carbon footprint.

One Worlders from all over the world sent in their Earth Day celebrations and shared them with each other. Watch the video!

In a pilot program between Champion and One World, students attended the second annual COLP2023 (Community of Learning and Practice). Among them, Yihang Tang, Tina (Xinyu Jiang), Rui Ding, Yifang Xu, Wenhao Kong are considered “Students of Best Performance” for their active participation during and after COLP.

The Westchester Green County USA project is being led by three talented and passionate student leaders to help students, teachers and administrators measure, reduce and offset our school’s carbon emissions through the Dual Pledge, no matter where you are in the world.

One of the highlights of this past October was the Character.org annual conference that members of One World’s leadership attended. As always, there were great ideas and takeaways shared with the educational community.

We celebrated the end of Hispanic Heritage Month (October 14th) by conducting a global connection between Grady Elementary (Elmsford, New York, USA), Escuela Nicolas Sojos (Cuenca, Ecuador), and Centro Educativo Años Maravillosos (CEAM) (Guerrero, Mexico).

Through a partnership with Global Peace Foundation-Brazil, our Global Connections Program was able to bring together schools in Mexico and Brazil.

As a launch to our Global Connections Fall Cohort, we hosted teachers from around the world through our inaugural Global Coffee Chat. There were representatives from Brazil, China, Ecuador, Kenya, Mexico, the UK and the US.

The fourth grade dual-language classroom from Ossining, NY, USA and the fourth grade students from Cuenca, Ecuador presented and learned about each other’s unique and diverse cultures.

Students from Claremont school in Ossining, New York and students from Centro Educativo Años Maravillosos (CEAM) in Guerrero, Mexico were introduced to each other through the Global Connections program and learned about each other.