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!