From their first days with us, our students learn about the concepts of “expanding communities”. This awareness begins with the family and grows to include school, city, country, and eventually the world. On Community Service Day, our students’ families join together with school families in an act of community action. One recent example had students in one school family collecting blankets and toiletries for the homeless. A school-wide assembly follows, in which students share what they have learned, both from an academic and a personal perspective.