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Bryn Tirion Hall School pledge to raise awareness in their school and local community of some global issues affecting us all.

One worlders from Wrexham, North Wales focused their meetings this term on helping us to recognize that we can all make a difference by acting to building a fairer, environmentally restored, and sustainable world for all.
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Noah’s Community Cakes

Noah is the embodiment of what One World stands for and it is such a pleasure for One World to award him with the certificate of recognition for an Outstanding Service Learning Project through Noah’s Community Cakes. Noah also recieved a cash price to go towards his mission to bake 1,000 cakes by his 18th birthday. 
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Creating Change at Claremont School: Advocating for Accessibility

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.
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Students from Brooklyn and Acapulco pledge to achieve radical non-violence in their communities

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.
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One World Celebrating World Environment Day

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.
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One World’s 2023 Communities of Learning & Practice: Climate Change

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
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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.
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Schools Are Rewarded for Most Eco Acts Around World

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.
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One Worlders around the Globe Celebrate Earth Day

One Worlders from all over the world sent in their Earth Day celebrations and shared them with each other. Watch the video!
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Merging Expertise between Champion Academy in China and One World

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.
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One World + Westchester Green County USA

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.
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Character.org annual conference

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.
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Hispanic Heritage Month Celebration

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).
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Global Peace Foundation Partnership Helps Connect One World Schools through Global Connections

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

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.