Small Talk

Are you tired of repeating yourself when your child won't listen to you? Do you want less tears and more calm and peace at home? Director of Small World Rita Truong shares tips and insight into setting limits with young children effectively and how to get them to listen!

Join Small World director Rita Truong as she shares about snack and lunch time in school, and offers tips on food and eating at home with young children.

Join us as Small World Director Rita Truong leads an in-person Separation Workshop all about the start of the 2022-2023 school year at Avenues. Podcast recorded and shared for Small World parents who were not able to join in person.

Listen in as Xueting Wang, Small World teacher of the Sheep and Ducklings, shares about what students learn at the beginning of each year and what they continue working on at the end of this year, and find out what we heard in the background while recording this podcast (hint: it's graduation season!).

Join us as Small World teacher Maria Bonilla shares about growing up as a native speaker of Spanish in Los Angeles, how her own early childhood experiences shape her as a teacher now, and what her first days with the Walruses and Angelfish classes were like!

In this week's episode of Small Talk Teacher Feature, Small World Dolphins teacher Sandy Suarez shares with listeners about her background as a speaker of Spanish, what sets Avenues and Small World teachers apart, and the joys and challenges from when she integrated into the Dolphins community mid-year.

Teena Ortiz, Small World teacher of the Sheep and Ducklings, shares about how she became a teacher and how she teaches her students in Spanish, and what curricula she cares most about teaching to her young students.

Listen in as Small World teacher Keren Liu chats with us about student learning in her classroom, how being a parent informs her teaching (and vice versa), and what makes her Walruses and Angelfish classes this year unique!

Listen as Mekta tells the story of her international and multilingual roots, how her childhood and school experiences have shaped her as a teacher, and what she hopes her students will remember about their year in her class.

Small World teacher of the Dolphins Valdelena Nobre shares with listeners about her triumphs and challenges as a classroom teacher and provides insight into life as a working parent. She also talks about early childhood learning curricula and what superpower she wishes she could have!

Join us as Fan shares with listeners about her roots in China, her journey in her first year as the teacher in Chinese in Small World, and listen until the end to hear the one part Fan wished to cut from the podcast (but we insisted on keeping in!).

Liz Salegumba joins us for this episode of Teacher Feature and shares about growing up in Vienna and Manila, what sets Avenues apart from other schools, and how she approaches classroom teaching and learning with her young students.

Joni us as we chat with Small World teacher Veronica Quiroga about her roots as a native speaker of Spanish, her reflections on teaching at Avenues, and what she hopes her students will remember from their year in her class.

We hear from Small World teacher Yifan Cui about her experiences growing up in Ningbo, China, studying early education in New York City at NYU and Teachers College, and her first year teaching at Avenues.

Small World teacher Jazmin Espinoza shares with listeners about her journey into early education, provides insight into teacher training, and celebrates all the rich nuances of classroom life.

In this episode, we chat with Small World Spanish immersion teacher Jazmin Espinoza about her path to teaching, how she came to be a true multilingual, and the personalities of her three different groups of students.

Jazmin Espinoza, Spanish immersion teacher in Small World, chats with us about what teaching Spanish immersion is like in the classroom, what astonishes her about her students' abilities, and what she she hopes she is remembered for.

Kevin Murungi, Director of the Global Journeys program at Avenues New York, shares about the challenges of his role, which Avenues Valued Behavior is most important in his work, and what long-held beliefs he wishes to change within humanitarian agencies and human rights organizations.

Listen in as Director of Global Journeys Kevin Murungi shares with us the one word he will not use in the program, what students do while abroad with Global Journeys, and his favorite locations traveled by Avenues students.

Director of Global Journeys at Avenues New York Kevin Murungi shares about the work of the Global Journeys program at Avenues, how their programs are developed for ethical and sustainable cross-cultural connections, and his background and what brought him to New York City and Avenues from Nairobi, Kenya.

Small World teacher Keren Liu shares about the most rewarding and challenging parts of being in the classroom, lets us in on what she really wants all parents of preschoolers to know, and tells us about the epiphany she had about becoming a first-time parent.

Listen in as Small World teacher Keren Liu shares about the personalities of her three different classes, her proudest moment in the classroom so far, and what the students continue to work on at this time of the year.

Dr. Glazer shares what it is like being an Avenues parent, which Valued Behavior speaks to him the most, and what is his "fallback career!"

Listen in as Avenues New York Head of School Dr. Evan Glazer shares with us about which classes he still teaches at Avenues, what brought him to our school three years ago, and what he really wants everyone to know about him.

We chat with Small World teacher Valdelena Nobre about how the Small World children have grown this year, the unique perspective she offers as both a parent and an early childhood educator, and the one place in the world she wishes to visit!