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Olympia School District

Vision:

Our philosophy provides for a creative, authentic, performance-based educational system that equips all students with intellectual skills and promotes emotional intelligence. Students are empowered, informed citizens who contribute actively toward a democratic and equitable society. Avanti honors diversity and builds on the strength of its community, deliberately and explicitly, challenging all forms of inequity.

Mission:

Avanti is a small innovative public high school that provides a personalized learning environment. We build lifelong connections to learning, creativity, resourcefulness, and social justice. Avanti’s mission is to promote compassion, critical thinking, and creative self-expression, while emphasizing high standards for all students within an interdisciplinary structure.

Core Themes and Values:

Creativity and innovation; Arts integration; Performance-based learning; Collaboration over competition; Depth in curriculum over coverage; Relationship-based environment; importance placed on community; Learning to use one’s mind well; Personalization; Student as worker; Teacher as coach; Demonstrations of mastery; A tone of decency and trust; Developing the habits of mind and heart.

WE WORK TOGETHER:

We encourage Parent/Family/Community involvement as a

means of building relationships between our school and

community.

WE ACCOMPLISH GREAT THINGS:

Students developed a partnership with Madison

Elementary and the Thurston County

Food Bank to develop the Madison-Avanti Giving

Garden. Students maintain the garden and sponsor

Farm Stand Fridays.

Avanti High School is a member of the Safe

Schools Coalition and we partner with PFLAG to

sponsor Pizza Klatch, a support group for Avanti’s

LGBTQI students.

2014 SCHOOL OF EXCELLENCE IN ARTS EDUCATION

award - rated #1 school in Washington State for arts

integration by ARTS Ed WA and AWSP.

2011, 2013, 2014, 2016 School of Distinction Award

Ava n t i St u d e n t s a r e …independent, creative, and reflective

The Madison-Avanti Giving Garden

WHAT MAKES AVANTI DIFFERENT?

Avanti High School is a school

of choice that provides an

alternative learning experience

for students in grade 9-12.

We embrace the “one size

does not fit all” perspective on education and

instruction. We focus on helping students to

use their minds well. Our philosophy is depth

over breadth and we partner with students to

help them achieve their academic goals.

Avanti utilizes a performance-based curriculum

where students must demonstrate mastery by

reaching a minimum of

80% on all assigned tasks

and learning goals.

Students continue to earn

credits as they meet state,

district, and school

graduation requirements.

Avanti was founded in November of 1997, and

since its inception the school has developed

into one of the many successful options

programs in the Olympia School District.

In 2009, Avanti was named one

of the top ten performing

alternative schools in the State

of Washington, and our award-

winning staff are all “highly

qualified teachers.”

...because students are more than their last assignment, a grade, or their test scores

Ava n t i i s a S c h o o l o f C h o i c e

AVANTI IS FOR EVERYONE

A climate of compassion, tolerance, and respect

exists and desired habits of the heart and mind

are the guiding principles for both students and

staff. Therefore, incidents of prejudice,

discrimination, bullying, and harassment are

interrupted and addressed promptly and

professionally.

As a result, Avanti High School is a safe, caring,

and culturally responsive

learning environment where

all students and their families

are welcome and accepted.

“I like how the students are being taught while at the

same time learning more responsibility and independence.

I think the [Avanti] teachers are awesome.

They seem to have a good understanding of each of the

students even though there are such a wide variety

of different types of people.”

“One of the best

things about Avanti

is the opportunity

it provides you

to have a say in

your own education.”

We welcome your interest in attending Avanti. To learn

more about applying to Avanti, the interview and

acceptance process, or to download an application packet:

Visit us online at http://avanti.osd.wednet.edu/

Visit the Avanti office during normal school hours at

1113 Legion Way, SE, Olympia, Washington.

Call the Avanti office for more information at:

360-596-7900

Enrollment priority is given to students who graduate

from OSD middle school programs (Washington MS,

Reeves MS, Marshall MS, and Jefferson MS), attend

Olympia High School, Capital High School, and the

Olympia Regional Learning Academy (ORLA).

We welcome applicants from outside the district,

however, students residing within the Olympia School

District maintain priority over out-of-district applicants.

Ava n t i i s f o r Yo u ...learn more

“The gift of the [Avanti] program resides not merely in its

academics, but in its capacity to foster the self-directed

pursuit of achievement, knowledge, and novelty.”

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