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The Good: Avenues has an excellent community with its divisions. I adore my coworkers and my direct administrators. The resources for classrooms is quite good, and the facilities are excellent.

The Bad: The school little by little continues to ask its employees for more and more, i.e. changing the school calendar, adding J-Term when they didn't tell us what it was, asking us to volunteer for a number of extra jobs with no extra benefits. There is a HUGE disconnect between decision-making stakeholders and the staff/faculty. It is like "the man behind the curtain" telling us what to do and we have no access to these people at the Avenues Headquarters.

The Ugly: Avenues started only giving 2% raises two years ago and cut our 401k contributions from 5% to 3 % at the same time. We were told this would be one year only but it is still the same two years later. They switched our health insurance to a HORRIBLE options. They rejected 12 of their own employees for student seats and financial aid after the admissions department encouraged them to apply. Work-sponsored childcare is not affordable on a teacher salary.

I was really excited about the values Avenues espoused in training, prioritizing a very progressive educative platform and support for teachers. In reality, they did not support, encourage or provide a high quality, interactive curriculum. Despite training us on DEI, they presented a curriculum with deeply colonialist underpinnings that was hardly representative of nonwhite viewpoints or even provided books with representative female characters. They were not open to feedback from teachers, despite saying the opposite. They also consistently override teachers deep knowledge of what is best for kids for reasons I could not understand (giving 1st graders a 18 page math assessment at the end of the year - the difficulty which seems to be harder than the on-campus 2nd grade curriculum). 

Pay was much lower than public or other schools. Constant and quite pointless meetings and development days. Teachers were told there would be opportunities to find other roles in the organization after the one year contract, which turned out to be false for 90% of those hired.

Avenues Shenzhen is truly a world-class institution — if by ‘world-class’ you mean endless bureaucracy, inflated egos, and revolving doors for staff. They market ‘global citizenship,’ but somehow forgot basic respect for the people who keep the place running. The kids are bright, but sadly the administration’s brightest idea seems to be firing good teachers for no good reason. At least I walked away with a great story (and a reminder that expensive doesn’t always mean excellent).

The school has the highest turn over rate for teachers and administration. Like any academic institutions there are a lot of politics amongst teachers. My superior who hired me was fired for being too good at her job. I’m not exaggerating, she was told that she made other teachers feel uncomfortable because of her expectations and being very good and organized at her job. The school is very expensive but it’s not a well organized school and can’t seem to keep any teachers for longer than a year

Excellent organization with highly committed, innovative and inspiring leadership and colleagues
Whole organization has an inspiring mission that is compelling and attended to daily. Also, the organization as a learning community is comfortable with and willing to identify, own, address and respond to issues the arise quickly. 
Committed to improving upon the positive aspects of diversity, equity and inclusion across all stakeholders

Bottom line: teachers are respected in the school community. I worked as an at-home teacher during the 2020-2021 school year and had a great experience. The position was remote except for teaching the students at their home. The admin. was always there if you needed anything and it was a really supportive environment. 

I can say with confidence that the sports program at Avenues is one of the most supportive and encouraging programs I have ever been a part of. From the coaches to the administration, everyone involved in the program is committed to the success of their student-athletes both on and off the field. 

This is not a place for rigorousness - no structure for collaboration between different teams and whether an associate teacher can learn/what they can learn highly depends on the head teacher. No sophisticated rules for a lot of things. 

Leadership prefer to save money by having one person do the work of two.
Prefer certain ethnicities over others
preferential treatment on some members versus others

The mathematics tutorial program ran an hour four times a week, a great position for someone with freelance work. Benefits include highly competitive wage, lunch and friendly staff.

Top Job Titles	Average Salary
Teacher 3 salaries reported	$94,333 per year
Operator 2 salaries reported	$19.00 per hour
Communications intern 2 salaries reported	$20.00 per hour
Coach 2 salaries reported	$3,150 per month
Daycare teacher 1 salary reported	$18.00 per hour

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