At Avenues, we use three forms of assessment: summative, formative and standardized. Together, this assessment system allows us to evaluate multiple aspects of school and curriculum quality, and student growth. The International Schools’ Assessment (ISA) is the standardized test Avenues has chosen to assist in evaluating school quality across multiple campuses over time.

For seven days, Avenues Secondary Division students went off schedule and immersed themselves in the city of São Paulo for project-based learning. Some visited banks, others explored the Mercadão, while others headed out to neighboring communities. Their learnings culminated in a powerful showcase and an exciting start to the new semester.

Last semester, Avenues São Paulo adopted three nearby green spaces for caretaking and community-building. “It has a lot to do with building agency in children… so children actually feel they can change the world around them.