DCI sets GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title with sustainability class

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At Dulwich College International (DCI), our students are educated about sustainability and encouraged to take action so that they are prepared to embrace the social and environmental challenges facing the planet.

As part of this commitment, 3006 students across the DCI network officially participated in the world's largest environmental sustainability lesson on Wednesday October 30. Themed "Living a Sustainable Lifestyle" and co-developed with students, the lesson demonstrated the importance of environmental protection and conveyed the message that each person can and should effect tangible positive change.

We are thrilled that the lesson achieved a GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ title for "Largest Environmental Sustainability Lesson (multiple venues)"! Students across our family of schools were able to participate alongside the official GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™ participants from Dulwich College Shanghai, Dulwich College Beijing, Dulwich College Suzhou, Dulwich International High School Suzhou, Dehong Beijing and Dehong Shanghai.

"Our vision is for our students to Live Worldwise – to have the skills and motivation to make a positive difference in the world," said Fraser White, Founder, CEO and Chairman of Dulwich College International. "The environmental issues facing our planet are both a challenge and an opportunity. It is our responsibility to create future leaders who will champion sustainability across the globe but this also gives us an amazing chance to find new ways of working and new ways of teaching. The Largest Environmental Sustainability Lesson at Dulwich is a collaboration between the school and our students so they are engaged in designing and directing the learning experience. We're proud that this collaboration that the students co-designed has created a movement across all our campuses in Asia and clinched a world record."

Students as young as eight years old helped to create the learning experience, even developing the lesson content and designing the "sustainability pledges" to drive home that sustainability can be a daily lifestyle choice. Meanwhile Isaac L, a 15-year-old Year 11 student at Dulwich College Beijing, combined his interest in web development with his love for the planet by developing from scratch the webpage to host these pledges.

"My previous experiences of being the main web developer at HackDulwich, DCI's hackathon, provided me with the opportunity and confidence to now be on the web development team of the homepage of the Largest Environmental Sustainability Lesson," explained Isaac. "I love using the skills I've learnt to bridge my passions for STEAM and web development with an initiative that brings attention to the climate crisis, a massive problem facing our species."

The lesson also serves to kick off "Sustainable November" – a larger month-long movement encouraging sustainable living across our family of schools. Students, staff and parents are encouraged to stay committed to the pledges they made as part of the lesson and support one another in building habits to make tangible and permanent change.

As our family of schools now extends across 13 campuses with more than 9000 students receiving a Dulwich education, the message of Sustainable November is that we can all do something - one small action, if repeated by many individuals, can have an enormous and meaningful impact.

To learn more about how DCI has integrated sustainability into its entire curriculum, please click "read more".

德威国际教育集团的可持续发展课程

创下吉尼斯世界纪录™称号

在德威国际教育集团（DCI），学生们接受了可持续发展的相关教育，并且我们鼓励学生采取行动，为应对地球所面临的各种社会和环境挑战做好准备。

作为此项工作的一部分，10月30日（星期三）, 德威国际教育集团学校大家庭的3006名学生共同设计并正式参与了全球最大规模的环境可持续发展课程。以“可持续生活方式”为主题的这一课程向学生展示了环境保护的重要性，传递了每个人都能够而且有责任在自己的生活中做出切实而积极的改变。

十分值得高兴的是，该环境可持续课程荣获“最大规模的环境可持续发展课程”的吉尼斯世界纪录™称号！德威学校大家庭中，来自上海德威外籍人员子女学校、北京德威英国国际学校、苏州德威英国国际学校、苏州德威国际高中、德闳北京以及德闳上海的学生都参与了课程和挑战。

“我们的愿景是培养学生成为有动力和能力为世界做出积极改变的全球公民”， 德威国际教育集团创始人、首席执行官兼董事长魏斐泽（Fraser White）表示，“地球所面临的各种环境问题对我们既是挑战，也是机遇。我们有责任培养能在全球引领可持续发展的未来领袖，同时这种责任对我们来说也是一个探索新的工作方式和教学方式的契机。德威的最大规模环境可持续发展课程是学校与学生合作的产物，我们的学生参与其中设计和引导了自己的学习体验。这种与学生共同设计的合作教学正在亚洲我们所有的学校中开创一种风潮，同时这项活动还赢得了一项世界纪录，这让我们无比自豪。

年仅八岁的学生也为学习体验的形成出谋划策，甚至是开发了课程内容，设计“可持续誓约”，从而让大家理解可持续性作为日常生活方式选择的这一理念。北京德威英国国际学校的十五岁学生Isaac L凭借自己对网络开发的兴趣和对地球的热爱，从零开始设计开发了这一课程的主页。

“我曾担任德威国际教育集团的黑客马拉松活动HackDulwich的主要网页开发人员，这一经验让我有机会也有信心加入此次最大规模环境可持续发展课程的主页开发团队”，Isaac解释道，“STEAM（科学、技术、工程、艺术和数学）和网页开发是我的兴趣所在，气候危机则是我们人类面对的重大问题，我很高兴能将自己的兴趣所长用于这项倡议，加强大家对气候危机的关注”。

该课程同时也拉开了“可持续十一月”的序幕，这项为期一个月的活动将进一步在整个德威学校大家庭中推动可持续生活理念。通过这项活动，德威将鼓励学生、教职员工和家长共同遵守在课上立下的“可持续发展誓约”，互相支持鼓励，养成习惯做出切实且永久的改变。

德威学校大家庭目前涵盖了13所学校，为9000多名学生提供德威教育，“可持续十一月”活动所传达的信息是，我们所有人都能有所成就-从小事做起，成就大目标-即便是点滴小事，只要大家广泛地参与其中，都将形成富有意义的深远影响。

如需了解有关德威国际教育集团如何将可持续发展纳入德威整体课程设置的更多信息，请查阅“阅读全文”。

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