Zavacopoulou, Amalia, Fellow
Ms. Zavacopoulou was born in London, but was raised in Athens and attended a British international school. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in European Social and Political Studies, a four-year course with majors in History, French and Italian from University College London (2004), and a Masters degree in Journalism from University of Westminster, London (2008).
A qualified secondary school teacher, she taught French and Spanish in an inner city London school through Teach First, a ground-breaking graduate training program that combines two years teaching in challenging London schools with business and leadership training. She also worked as a substitute teacher in over 20 different London schools in long-term and short-term placements for a further two years.
She joined the ACS Athens team in 2010 and started working in the Writing/Research Studio, where she helped and advised students on a variety of written assignments. She has since been involved in many aspects of school life: she coaches the ACS Athens Academy and Middle School debate teams, has participated in the Mentorship Program and has co-presented a workshop at the NESA Conference. With her teaching partner she has also developed and taught authentic Humanities courses for ACS Athens Virtual. Currently she is teaching IB TOK Senior Seminar, team-teaching Humanities and Grade 9 Europe and the World, as well as serving as Division Chair for Social Studies, K-12.
email: zavacopouloua@acs.gr
Jasonides, Kathy, Fellow
Ms. Kathy Jasonides holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and a Masters degree in Journalism from the University of California, Los Angeles. As a member of the Academy faculty at the American Community Schools of Athens, Greece since 1974 she has taught English, Journalism, History, Humanities, IB English Literature and IB Theory of Knowledge.
Since retiring from full-time teaching in 2008, Ms. Jasonides has continued to team teach the Honors Humanities courses, and she also serves as Chair of the Division of Language and Literature. In addition to the two-year Honors Humanities program, Ms. Jasonides and her teaching partners have developed three additional online Humanities courses which offer the highlights of the program's interdisciplinary approach, including the field study opportunities, to both non-ACS Athens students and ACS Athens students who are not enrolled in the regular program.
Ms. Jasonides has co-authored articles about interdisciplinary teaching for the ACS Athens magazine ETHOS and participated in presentations at NESA conferences and the ACS Athens Conferences on Learning Differences. She also co-authored chapters in the 2016 publication Revolutionizing K-12 Blended Learning through i2Flex Classroom Model and the 2021 publication Handbook of Research on K-12 Blended and Virtual Learning Through the i2Flex Model.
email: jasonidesk@theinstitute.gr