IB Brags

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• Cholla High School is celebrating their 10^th graduating IB class on their 50^th anniversary!
• Kyrene Middle School rallied to provide 4 below-the-knee prosthetics to children in Africa, as well as 400 pairs of socks to the local community. Students who participated learned about developing nations, culture, geography and economy.
• Nogales High School is constantly raising their participation numbers!
• Chandler High School IB Programme is growing. More teachers are trained and embracing the IB Learner Profile concepts in their lessons!
• Madison Meadows student took his community project idea and made it a reality in his new high school. He worked with new friends to start a Gay Straight Alliance within the first 2 weeks of school!
• Westwood High School’s Model UN travels internationally every year. Last year they took 2^nd place in Dubai and next April they plan to travel to Thailand.
• Chandler High School IB Career Programme students are collaborating on a service project with a school in India. They are developing a computer program for taking attendance and working to identify and provide support for other needs.
• Ironwood High School senior IB students are working with Desert Botanical Garden to develop a game to use with elementary students on Sustainable Spaces.
• Willow Canyon High School had 21 of their 25 seniors earn the IB Diploma! Those are the best results they have had to date. Also, they’ve added Visual Arts, Psychology HL and Math SL/HL this year.
• Madison Simis has decided to move to online portfolios by adopting the online program “Seesaw”. They are excited to move away from plastic binders for IB portfolios to digital schoolwide!
• IB Academy @ Estrella Mountain was awarded the A+ School of Excellence award this past year.
• Mountainside Middle School is off and running in their first year of IB MYP. They converted to an 8-period day and spent the first three days doing a schoolwide MYP introductory lesson in all classes.
• Florence High School has added IB Global Politics and Sports, Exercise and Health Sciences. Both have been very popular and will be moving from SL to HL by Spring Registration.
• Coconino High School is awaiting news that they will be an IB DP school.
• Verde Valley School has two Junior IB Diploma candidates who have applied for, and are now organizing a Ted X event, which will happen on December 8^th.
• Cactus Shadows High School students helped to spearhead “Rock the District”, a community event that raises funds for Cave Creek Education Foundation, which donates money and technology to community schools. Rock the District has raised over $200,000 in the past 8 years.
• Millennium High School IB candidate Mia Johnson starred in the Valley Youth Theater’s rendition of “Newsies” as Medda Larkson at the Herberger Theater last weekend.   https://www.westvalleyview.com/news/litchfield-park-teen-starring-in-newsies/article_0564365e-a581-11e8-98fc-7fe4efec3fbd.html
• Andalucia Middle School is currently in the application process to become an IB school, set to open for the 2019-2020 school year.
• Sinagua Middle School in Flagstaff is now officially an IB School! Welcome!
• Anthem K-8 in Florence has completed and submitted their application to IB and are looking forward to implementing the program fully next school year.
• Westwood High School is proud to have a 2018 MYP and DP Student of the Year as well as the MYP Teacher of the Year for 2018.