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Description

The International Baccalaureate Organization (IBO) offers high quality programs of international education to a worldwide community of schools. The IBO, founded in 1968, is a recognized leader in the field of international education. It is a non-profit,  mission-driven foundation that works with 2,975schools  (June 2010 to develop and offer three challenging  programs  to more than 829,000 students in 139 countries.  

Socastee High School became an International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma School in January of 1997.  The IB Diploma Program is a challenging two-year curriculum, designed for students who are completing their last two years of high school.  It leads to a qualification that is widely recognized by the world’s leading universities.

  
Fast facts about the IB

The IBO has compiled a list of fast facts about the organization and its programs.



Mission

The IBO has adopted the following mission statement:

"The International Baccalaureate Organization aims to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people who help to create a better and more peaceful world through intercultural understanding and respect.

To this end the IBO works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programs of international education and rigorous assessment.

These programs encourage students across the world to become active, compassionate and lifelong learners who understand that other people, with their differences, can also be right."

IB Community Theme

In an effort to strengthen the IB mission, the IB has initiated an exciting new project— the IB community theme. Conceived in 2006 with the first theme,sharing our humanity, that was officially launched in April 2007 at the annual general meeting. Lasting three years, the theme is intended to serve as a focus for the IB and IB World Schools, to capture the excellent initiatives that are already underway in many schools and encourage and inspire new activities, in and out of the classroom, around the following topics:

• Global poverty
• Peace and conflict
• Education for all
• Global infectious diseases
• Digital divide - uneven access to information and communication technologies
• Disasters and emergencies