Archive for ‘Faculty’
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...
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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...
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Tags: Faculty, Library, Teacher Video
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...
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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...
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Tags: Faculty, Kindergarten, Lower School, Teacher Bio, Teacher Video
Introducing Sam Roberts
Sam Roberts will be Avenues’ senior advisor for journalism beginning this summer. He has a long and distinguished career at the New York Times, where he has been the urban affairs correspondent since 2005. A leader at the Times in many roles since he joined the paper, More...
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Tags: Faculty, Journalism
Meet Sarah Davies
Sarah Davies will join Avenues as math teacher for the Middle School. She comes to us from Jumeirah College, a GEMS international school in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, for the last two years. Jumeirah covers grades 6-12, and Sarah has taught all grades, including classes in algebra, geometry, trigonometry, More...
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Tags: Faculty, Math, Middle School, Teacher Bio
Meet Erin Finn-Welch
Erin Finn-Welch will join Avenues as the head of grade for the fifth grade. She comes to us from Greenwich Academy (GA), where she has been teaching English for the last eight years. Most recently, she has been fifth grade team leader, overseeing the programmatic needs of the grade. More...
Tags: 5th Grade, Faculty, Humanities, Middle School, Teacher Bio, Teacher Video
Meet Annabelle Tan
Annabelle Tan will join Avenues as a head teacher in the Mandarin Chinese immersion program for first grade. 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 More...
A Short Video Interview with Michael Maccarone
In March we introduced Mike Maccarone, curriculum specialist for science in the Upper School. In this quick interview, Mike talks about connecting students to physics through their everyday lives. To see Mike’s bio, click here. More...
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Tags: Faculty, Science, Teacher Video, Upper School
Meet Sally Kent
Sally Kent will join Avenues as the curriculum specialist for science for the Middle and Lower Schools. She joins us from the Touchstone Community School (Grafton, MA), an independent school with multi-age grouping for children ages 3-14, where she has taught since 2006. More...
Tags: Faculty, Lower School, Middle School, Science, Teacher Bio, Teacher Video