IB Around the World

Over 3,000 schools and 141 countries now offer IB programs. Here are some of the reasons the IB is growing in popularity around the world:

The IB Mission Statement
"The IB aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect."  The goals outlined by the IB for its schools really speak to the changing face of our globe and emphasize our need to become respectful, responsible citizens of our world. These ideals stand out as being relevant to our students and their families, we want our students to take their knowledge and use it to make a better, more peaceful world.

High Academic Standards
By centering our learning and exploration around things that are relevant, challenging and engaging-we can inspire our students to take responsibility for their own inquiries and learning. The PYP framework allows us to access the diverse prior knowledge and experience of all our students, we expose our students to different perspectives and questions while building off of what they already know. Using the transdisciplinary themes to organize our learning experiences, we place ideas and concepts into context for learning. These things all provide for a dynamic, interactive learning environment that helps students succeed and excel.

International Minded-ness
The IB provides a framework that allows students to explore concepts on both a local and global level. When we explore traditional topics such as water cycles we instead explore the availability of water as a resource around the world. Who has access? What affects this access? Who owns water? We take content outlined by our state and district standards and extend it to a wide exploration of concepts and big ideas.

Spicewood is proud to be an IB school! If you would like more information, please contact our PYP coordinator at doriane_marvel@roundrockisd..org



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