International Baccalaureate

Dos Rios Elementary School is an authorized IB World School. These are schools that share a common philosophy—a commitment to high quality, challenging, international education that Dos Rios Elementary School believes is important for our students. All learning is framed under six Transdisciplinary Themes: Who We Are, Where We Are in Place and Time, How We Express Ourselves, How We Organize Ourselves, Sharing the Planet, and How the World Works.

Dos Rios Elementary is part of a continuum of academic programming, K-12, in Greeley-Evans School District Six. This includes the Primary Years Programme (PYP) at Dos Rios Elementary, the Middle Years Programme (MYP) at Brentwood Middle School and Greeley West High School, and the Diploma Programme (DP) at Greeley West High School. For further information about the IB and its programmes, visit http://www.ibo.org

On this webpage, there is additional information about our IB programme, policies, and complaint procedure hyperlinked on the menu to the left. After being authorized in 2017, we are currently seeking reauthorization through the process of self-study and evaluation.

Dos Rios Mission

The Dos Rios staff, parents, and community are committed to empowering and encouraging students to become successful life-long learners and leaders in an ever-changing world. We will work together to create challenging and developmentally appropriate learning experiences that emphasize intellectual rigor and high academic standards. Personal integrity and democratic values will be fostered in our students to prepare them to become balanced, responsible, reflective and globally conscious citizens. 

The Mission of the International Baccalaureate ®:

"The International Baccalaureate® 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 organization works with schools, governments and international organizations to develop challenging programmes of international education and rigorous assessment. These programmes 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 Philosophy

At the centre of an International Baccalaureate (IB) education are students aged 3 to 19 with unique learning styles, strengths and challenges. The IB focuses on each student as a whole person. Thus, IB programmes address not only cognitive development but social, emotional and physical well-being. The aim is to develop inquiring, knowledgeable and caring young people with adaptable skills to tackle society's complex challenges and who will help to make it a better, more peaceful world. 

Validating the efficacy of IB's four programmes are research and more than 45 years of practical experience. IB programmes emphasize learning how to learn and teaching students to value learning as an essential, integral part of their everyday lives.

IB promotes the development of schools that:

• inspire students to ask questions, pursue personal aspirations, set challenging goals and develop the persistence to achieve those goals
• develop knowledgeable students who make reasoned ethical judgments and acquire the flexibility, perseverance and confidence they need in order to bring about meaningful change
• encourage healthy relationships, individual and shared responsibility and effective teamwork

**Adapted from the International Baccalaureate Parent Pack