Global Curriculum
Since 2012, Avenues has developed and refined its own research-backed curriculum to prepare students for lives of global leadership and impact. At the heart of this effort are the Avenues World Elements (AWE), which define the skills, knowledge, and qualities that all Avenues students develop by graduation.
THE AVENUES WORLD ELEMENTS
A global curricular system
The Avenues World Elements define the knowledge, skills, and qualities that every Avenues student develops on their journey from early childhood through graduation. A unique combination of outcome and process, the table defines both what and how students learn at Avenues.
A guide to AWE
The table has two main components: elements (what our students learn) and learning experiences (the processes through which they learn). The 60 elements span the categories of thinking, character, well-being, understanding, purpose, interconnections, origins, nature, innovation, and investigation. The 11 learning experiences—including language immersion, projects, and service—are staggered across different developmental stages, from toddler through graduation.
A powerful tool for teaching and learning
The Avenues World Elements is a bespoke curriculum designed to help us achieve our mission of graduating future world-wise leaders. Developed through more than a decade of education R&D, the Avenues World Elements represent our highest vision for a future-facing global education.
Designed for the future
Cutting across traditional academic subject areas, the table is a powerful tool for the kind of interdisciplinary learning that will equip our students to understand and solve the world’s most pressing problems.
Designed for flexibility
Curricular elements can be combined to form a wide variety of programmatic “molecules”—courses, projects, and approaches—focused on real-world problem solving and reverse engineered to ensure students attain the desired learning outcomes.
Designed for collaboration
Uniquely modular, the elements and learning experiences can be combined by teachers working in cross-disciplinary teams, or even collaborating on campuses in different countries.
Designed for the world
True to our world school DNA, AWE is flexible enough to accommodate the unique local characteristics of our campuses. But while the table invites adaptation, its underlying structure remains consistent across the Avenues ecosystem, enabling students and faculty to seamlessly transfer from one campus to another.
Discover the AWE in action
We designed the Avenues World Elements to push the boundaries of schooling and redefine what’s possible in K-12 education. In this video, you’ll hear from Ty Tingley, founding head of school at Avenues New York , about the origins of AWE and how it has transformed teaching and learning at Avenues.
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