Archive for ‘Upper School’
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...
CATEGORY: People
Tags: Faculty, Science, Teacher Video, Upper School
Meet Jonathan Wang
Jonathan Wang will join Avenues as a humanities teacher with a focus on English in the Upper School. For the last four years, he has been an instructor in English at Phillips Exeter Academy in Exeter, NH. In addition to teaching grades 9-12, he has created a new elective course More...
Tags: Faculty, Humanities, Teacher Bio, Upper School
Meet Tiffany Trotter
Tiffany D. Trotter will join Avenues as ninth grade head of grade and a humanities teacher with a focus on history. She comes to us from Phillips Exeter Academy, where she has taught since 2003. Courses included U.S. history, 20th century world history and classical histories of Greece and Rome. More...
Tags: 9th Grade, Faculty, Humanities, Teacher Bio, Upper School
A Short Video Interview with Carolyn Petri
Last month we introduced Carolyn Petri, Middle and Upper School Spanish teacher for Avenues. In this short interview, Carolyn talks about strategies for teaching Spanish to Middle and Upper School students. To see Carolyn's bio, click here. More...
CATEGORY: People
Tags: Faculty, Middle School, Spanish, Teacher Video, Upper School
Meet Michael Maccarone
Michael Maccarone will join Avenues as curriculum specialist for science for the Upper School and Upper School science teacher. Since 2005, he has taught physics, chemistry, mathematics and engineering at Technology High School, a magnet high school in Newark, NJ. In his tenure there, Mike has been integral in implementing the Progressive Science Initiative, More...
Tags: Faculty, Science, Teacher Bio, Upper School
Meet Li-Dai Lu
Li-Dai Lu joins Avenues as a math teacher in Middle and Upper School. For the last six years, he has been at Trinity School in New York City, where he taught algebra II, AP statistics and geometry. Last summer, he taught algebra II in an intensive summer program at the Taipei American School in Taipei, Taiwan, where Li grew up and where his family still resides. More...
Tags: Faculty, Math, Middle School, Teacher Bio, Upper School
Meet Carrie Petri
Carolyn (Carrie) Petri will join Avenues in the fall as a Spanish teacher in Middle and Upper School. While children in younger grades will learn either Mandarin Chinese or Spanish in half-day immersion classes, older children will have intensive language classes in one of the two languages. More...
Tags: Faculty, Middle School, Spanish, Teacher Bio, Upper School
Update on Curriculum: Upper School
The Upper School curriculum will offer the culmination of the many unique features of an Avenues education. Students will both experience most fully the opportunity to study at Avenues campuses in other cities and host those visiting from other cities. The World Course, the Avenues mastery program, service-learning and More...
CATEGORY: School 2.0
Tags: Curriculum, Upper School
A Look at Avenues’ Curriculum
One of the most common questions we receive concerns the specifics of our curriculum. While we are still tuning some of the finer points, we already have quite a bit of information available on what we will be teaching on a school-by-school and More...
CATEGORY: School 2.0
Tags: Ask Avenues, Curriculum, Early Learning Center, ELC, Lower School, Middle School, Upper School
A Short Video Interview with Laly Porras
Last month we introduced Laly Porras, technology integrator for the Upper and Middle Schools at Avenues. When we sat down to talk to Laly, she explained what her job entails and told us about some of the current trends in technology that she finds useful in education. Watch the video, and click here to revisit Laly's bio. More...
CATEGORY: People
Tags: Faculty, Middle School, Teacher Video, Technology, Upper School, Video