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Our concept is Local and Global community. In the Collins English Dictionary global community is defined as: " The people or nations of the world, considered as being closely connected by modern telecomunications and as being economically, socially, and politicaly interdependent." This definition is closely tied to the mision and vision of our school, because we create an education that teaches students to be active in their communities by learning a second language.

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 * Element Two: ** * **Information/statistics** – Students //report// current information and/or statistics about their **concept** using digital information resources such as online journals, newspapers, and databases. =====

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Online we discovered an organization known as "the foundation of global communities." Their vision statement asserts the following: "As humans our highest purpose is to discover, live, and communicate what is needed to achieve a world that functions for the benefit of all life."=====

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Many traditions are practiced at Inter-American to build local and global community such as el Dia del Nino, which translates to " Children's Day". This Inter-american tradition is celebrated toward the end of the school year, every year. It is a day fully focused on the happiness and well being of the students. On this day, parents and some teachers organize games, activities and food. This tradition promotes local communities because it shows how kids how to interact with parents, teachers and kids are closer. This is different from other schools who dont have traditions such as ours. =====

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 * Element Four: **** Interview(s) ** – Students //interview// __other students__ and __at least one member of the faculty__ on camera to provide further insight about their mission and vision **concept** and the IAMS **practice or tradition** reported in Element Three. =====

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El dia del nino has impacted us personally because, during this day we learn to interact with other students and faculty that we might have not had a chance to do before. It has taught us how school isn't to bring us down, it is to educate us and this day is this day is to emphasize that we can have fun at school while learnng. =====

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To advance the realization of this topic we remained involved in activities such as reading buddies. This allows us to interact with students of lower grades and teach them certain topics in english and spanish. Reading buddies helps us facilitate local and global communities by inteacting with different age groups. =====

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 * Element Seven: **** Connecting the dots ** – 1. ) Students //establish a connection// between their selected **practice or tradition** and a different **practice or tradition**. 2.) Students //explain// how one of these **practices or traditions** advances more than one mission and vision **concept** at the same time. =====

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Traditions in our school such as Children's day is similar to the anual celebration of fiesta cultural. At fiesta cultural we learn how to interact and see the different cultures and traditions. At children's day we perform the traditions ourselves. =====

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At our school we are trying to create a diverse community by educating students on how to speak a second language. Whether your first language is english or spanish, by being enrolled at Inter- American you learn that second language in such a way that makes it easy to interact with different spanish speaking cultures. =====