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OPEN is the news and discussion blog of Avenues: The World School. Read, view and engage with us. Please visit avenues.org for more information about the school.
School 2.0
EXPLORE our educational philosophy and curriculum. Engage with us as we discuss the future of education.
People
MEET the people of Avenues—faculty, administrators, staff and parents.
Campus
VISIT the campus and learn about the design and construction of our Chelsea school and its neighborhood. Watch videos as construction progresses.
On-site at Avenues 5/8 – 5/16
Construction on our Chelsea campus continues to yield visible daily changes. Here are a few pictures taken on-site over the last week to give you an idea of our most recent progress. More...
CATEGORY: Campus
Tags: Construction
Introducing Technology to the Faculty
What do you do with a talented group of faculty who’ve already demonstrated success in technology integration on a Sunday? Take them to the next level! Each month a large group of our faculty attends one of our technology rollout workshops. More...
CATEGORY: School 2.0
Tags: Technology
Reading and Writing Project Workshop – Episode 3
Episode three of our Reading and Writing Project workshop covers helping teachers learn what to look for in gauging their students' progress in reading and writing. Take a look, and check back next week for a new episode. More...
CATEGORY: School 2.0
Meet Lauren Freer
Lauren Freer will join Avenues as Middle School humanities teacher with a focus on English. She has taught English to grades seven and eight at Trinity School (New York) and The Dwight School (New York). At Trinity, she designed curriculum and taught English and More...
CATEGORY: People
Tags: Faculty, Humanities, Middle School, Teacher Bio, Teacher Video
A Short Video Interview with Alia Methven
Earlier this week we introduced Alia Methven, director of library services at Avenues. In this quick interview, Alia talks about the role of the library as the backbone of the school. To see Alia’s bio, click here. More...
CATEGORY: People
Tags: Faculty, Library, Teacher Video
Is It Worth Taking the Time to Cultivate Habits of Mind?
Two recent books, Timothy D. Wilson’s Redirect: The Surprising New Science of Psychological Change and Charles Duhigg’s The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, pick up on a point made by Aristotle that character is formed by habits and habits are amenable to creation and to change. More...
CATEGORY: School 2.0
Tags: Character
Reading and Writing Project Workshop – Episode 2
In episode two of our Reading and Writing Project workshop, the discussion focuses on methods of teaching reading and writing that apply to a range of students. Take a look, and check back next week for a new episode. More...
CATEGORY: School 2.0
On-Site at Avenues, 5/1 – 5/7
Construction on our Chelsea campus continues to yield visible daily changes. Here are a few pictures taken on-site over the last week to give you an idea of our most recent progress. More...
Tags: Construction
Meet Alia Methven
Alia Methven will be director of library services at Avenues. Since 2004, she has been Middle and Upper School librarian at Greenwich Academy (Greenwich, CT), where she has expanded the library from simply a physical entity to include a virtual hub of services and resources More...
CATEGORY: People
Tags: Faculty, Library, Teacher Bio
Meet Elizabeth Jarvis
In September, Elizabeth Jarvis will welcome children as a head teacher in one of the English classrooms for kindergarten. In the immersion classes, nursery through grade one, children spend half their day in a class conducted in English and half in a class conducted in either Spanish or Mandarin Chinese. More...
CATEGORY: People
Tags: Faculty, Kindergarten, Lower School, Teacher Bio, Teacher Video