Dr. Marco Crivellaro joined ACS Athens a little before the COVID pandemic struck hard face-to-face learning in schools. Operating through two lockdowns could have been an inopportune time in his career, especially when as a librarian you depend on the physical presence of students in your library and the constant contact with books and volumes of manuscripts. But, following the school-wide schooling path from physical to virtual, he created the ACS Athens Virtual Library with a comprehensive list of books and periodicals accessible in electronic formats. Our discussion with Dr. Crivellaro starts with the library, but expands to topics such as Information vs. Knowledge, Critical Thinking skills of the reader and why it's important to know why you read what you read, we even invited his personal favorite authors for dinner. And yes, History is his favorite subject - who would have thought! ...
UN Day is celebrated every year, and offers the opportunity to amplify a common agenda and reaffirm the purposes and principles of the UN Charter that have guided the global community for the past 77 years. Each year, ACS Athens Middle School celebrates UN DAY, giving more significance to its multinational identity and global character. With students from more than 60 countries, the school is a hotbed of continuous dialogue and thoughtful debate on all issues of academic, cultural and historical significance that are presented through its programs. This year is another opportunity for students, faculty and administration to reflect on the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals, which are adopted schoolwide by encouraging everyone to actively support one or more of these goals, individually and collectively. Today with us is a group of Middle School student leaders who reflect on this year’s UN DAY that was marked this past November. They discuss the UN Day’s activities, the lessons from this day and their individual and collective conclusions. With their Advisor, Vicky Akrivou, students discuss: Nourishing Peace - this year’s UN DAY theme, as observed through the eyes of Middle Schoolers; From small-level actions to the larger scale - Identifying the needs of the world and actions to meet them; Student Challenging advisors on UN Sustainable Development Goals; The digital escape room challenge - learning serious concepts in a fun Way; Finding solutions by looking at the negative side of things; Focusing on solutions within social studies topics; What’s an SDG elevator speech; students choose their favorite Goal; The lifeline or Milestone of 2030; Thinking Globally but Acting Locally. ...
Since 2018, ACS ATHENS has been exploring and adopting the Sustainable Development Goals of the United Nations, setting collective and individual goals that can never be achieved without a sense of citizenship. Panos Mologoussis, is the Citizenship Coordinator and Program Manager of the ACS ATHENS Middle school. His goal is to promote the Citizenship Model towards cultivating a responsible and respectful mindset and behavior of middle school adolescents. He received the Arete Award (2020 – 2021) for the foundation of the Environmental Club in the ACS Athens Academy, an award recognizing initiative to promote civic responsibility and serve others, inspiring them to become more involved.With Panos Mologoussis, and his student leaders, today we discuss: Offering opportunities to work on student behavior - a big incentive for someone to join a school The tutoring school mentality and how it can be avoided The learning opportunities of consequences for mistakes students make towards character education Receiving the Areté Award for environmental activities The recycling program of ACS ATHENS - its mission and vision and how it affects the life on campus ...and much more! ...
