by Timothy Rutt
Aveson Charter Schools will have a ribbon-cutting and open house for its new campus on Nov. 16 at 2 PM.
The new campus is located at 575 W. Altadena Drive (Altadena Drive and Lincoln Avenue). The building -- which has been under construction for years with the intent of turning it into a retail space -- was leased by the charter school earlier this year and recently completed.
The campus will house the Aveson Global Leadership Academy, directed at middle and high school students.
The school will host a “Partners in Community, Partners for the Future” ribbon-cutting and open house on Saturday, November 16, at 2 PM at the campus. According to a press release, visitors can tour the campus, meet Aveson students and their families, and hear remarks from Aveson Executive Director Kate Bean, Altadena Town Council representatives Judy Mathews and Damon Hobdy and AGLA students.
Activities include:
- Visitors can visit Aveson’s Global Village to learn more about its social leadership and healthy living focus and participate in demonstrations offered by several Aveson community partners.
- Demonstrations include healthy snacks for kids by Joseph Shuldiner, founder/director of the Altadena Farmer’s Market and Institute for Domestic Technology, recycling and zero waste activities by Grades of Green, plus water conservation and watershed protection demonstrations and information on summer language and cultural exchange programs. The Righteous Conversations Project, a program dedicated to facilitating dialogue and conversation between Holocaust survivors and teens, will be on hand to showcase students’ work.
Aveson also has an elementary school campus at the former Noyes Elementary School campus in east Altadena. When the neighborhood there objected to Aveson's plan to include middle and high school students in the neighborhood, the school housed them at the Boys and Girls Club of Pasadena, and for the past two years at the Lincoln Avenue Baptist Church.
In the press release Aveson executive director Kate Bean, said its 300-plus students deserve a permanent home after a long wait.
“Our journey to find a permanent AGLA campus has been full of challenges,” says Bean. “I am grateful to all the families and kids who believed in our vision and stuck with us. Our new middle and high school campus is a symbol of the Aveson community’s fortitude, our growth and our mission of redefining teaching and learning.”
