One World in Action

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

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.

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.

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. 

This year we celebrated our first Global Cultural Day with students from Clubs around the world participating to sharing their cultures.

One World Global Connections students came together virtually to celebrate Hispanic Heritage.

One of the important rational of the Let’s Go Zero campaign is to involve youth directly in solving the climate change challenge. To that end, One World is working with Westchester County to encourage Westchester youth to come together in an effort to help Westchester County become recognized as Green County USA.

In Guerrero Mexico, a One World group presented the 17 Sustainable Development Goals in Native Languages during a global conference.

During very lively and dynamic presentations, students from the US & Mexico talked about food, customs, music, and other important aspects of their culture.

Students from Guerrero, Mexico and Connecticut, USA witnessed the release of 10 turtles into the sea via virtual event on June 17, 2021.