Embracing Diversity in the PYP

This year our No Place For Hate student group created a Diversity Tree to celebrate all the languages we currently speak, as well as the languages of our direct ancestors.  This is one way we embrace both our diversity, and the mother tongue languages of our teachers and students. In Spicewood's recently updated Language Policy we state:

     "Language is valued as central to developing critical thinking, and is considered essential for the cultivation of intercultural awareness and the development of internationally minded and responsible members of local, national, and global communities. We feel that students and parents who speak another language bring an added perspective to learning. We value their views and encourage them to share."


This is one way we are honoring the transdisciplinary theme of Who We Are while demonstrating the Learner Profile attributes of communicator, and inquirer and the attitudes of appreciation and respect.