Professional Development Day 2023

Workshop on AI

Students enjoyed a school holiday on Friday, November 24, 2023 on the occasion of the traditional Thanksgiving Break. In the meantime, ASV faculty-staff participated in the annual ASV Professional Development Day coordinated by the Director of Teaching, Learning and Curriculum, Ms. Amanda Bird. The day included a variety of workshops for teaching and non-teaching staff […]

Thanksgiving Celebrations

Like many other American and international schools, ASV celebrated Thanksgiving, a very traditional American holiday, on Thursday, November 24, 2022. Preschool and Elementary classes had some learning and art activities connected with the day. Students in Grade 5 completed a nice initiative: the Thanksgiving Tree (top picture). Its paper leaves, previously painted by those students, […]

Welcome to New Staff in Elementary School

We are so pleased to finally have two new staff members joining the Elementary School in January 2022 that bring a wealth of diverse experience and skills to the ASV Elementary Team. They are: Mr. Michael Wurdeman. Grade 2 Blue Teacher After many, many months of waiting for a visa, Mr. Mike (as he goes […]

Appreciation to Ms. Radford and Mr. Stapleton

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Two highly beloved teachers, Ms. Sally Radford and Mr. John Stapleton, will begin their much-deserved retirement and have come to the end of their professional careers at ASV. Ms. Radford joined ASV in 1986 and has served as a Preschool teacher for 35 years, in some cases teaching two generations of ASV students. Mr. Stapleton […]

ASV World Languages Coordinator Speaker at a Conference

The ASV World Languages Coordinator, Ms. Elena Martí, participated as invited speaker at an international conference held in Firenze, Italy, this past week.  The goal of Innovation in Language Learning was to “provide the opportunity to world language teachers to be informed and share recent research results in the field of language teaching and learning, […]

2019 Professional Development Days

On Thursday, October 10, and Friday, October 11, ASV held the 2019 Professional Development Days focused on the Understanding by Design framework with the guidance of Ms. Elizabeth Imende. As part of the design and alignment process, staff have identified Transfer Goals in each of their subject areas.  Transfer Goals are the central ideas of […]

Meet our New Teachers (3/3)

Joel Duarte. San Antonio (Texas, United States) Mr. Duarte has a Masters in Education and has taught at high schools in Texas and Oregon. After studying Philosophy and Psychology at university, he worked for a decade as a sommelier.  “Then I lived abroad teaching English as a foreign language in Thailand, Japan, and Korea,” he […]

Meet our New Teachers (II)

Jordi Ballester (Alicante, Spain) Mr. Ballester is the most recent addition to the ASV Athletic Department and he will be working as Physical Education Teacher in Middle School. Mr. Ballester grew up in Alicante, the southern part of Comunitat Valenciana, but moved to the United States of America when he was 19 years old to […]

Meet our New Teachers (I)

  Emily Corrigan. Atlanta (Georgia, United States) Ms. Corrigan is the new homeroom teacher in Grade 5 Blue. She studied in North Carolina, where she played volleyball and beach volleyball for the university teams. “I had always had the desire to see the world and help people along the way. Prior to coming to ASV, […]