From the AVRO blog
Notes on learning differently, our approach, and life at AVRO.
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Alternative Schools: A Pathway to Flexible and Inclusive Education
Imagine a place where education adapts to the students, not the other way around. Alternative schools are exactly that. They break away from the…
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Why our private school embraces atypical students
After celebrating our graduation last month, we cannot help but be beyond proud of how far our students have come. From their first interviews…
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We couldn’t bring your kids back from Ecuador.
We’re really sorry, but a lot can happen in 12 days in South America. In fact, when you jam-pack an itinerary with hiking mountains,…
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Attachment and the Classroom
Attachment theory is a psychological theory developed by John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth in the 1950s and 1960s. It proposes that infants and young…
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Learning on a Living Planet
We live on a planet with myriad human and non-human beings. We humans are thinkers, schemers, dreamers, a mix of technical know-how and spiritual…
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Peace over Progress
The job of the teacher is to teach; the job of the student is to learn. In order for a student to learn anything,…
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Should we learn all day?
By Efrat Shapir A student this summer asked me about the purpose of being at school all day. “Can’t you just teach me all…
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When just getting to school is an emotional challenge, our teachers step up.
Being a teenager is hard work. For every kid who makes it to school on time without a hitch every morning, there are also…
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Why Is History So Boring?
By Efrat Shapir Obviously, history is not boring. Even Canadian history. So why is it that students find this subject in particular so dull?…
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Screen Addiction: Are We Winning the Battle?
Parents worry that their children are spending too much time in front of screens. With teens using screens for an estimated average of 44…