The Mission of AVID

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The Mission of AVID
AVID is designed to increase schoolwide learning
and performance. The mission of AVID is to
ensure that all students, and most especially the
least served students in the middle capable of
completing a college preparatory path

• will succeed in the most rigorous curriculum,
• will enter mainstream activities of the school,
• will increase their enrollment in four-year
  colleges, and
• will become educated and responsible participants
  and leaders in a democratic society.

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The Purpose of AVID
The purpose of the AVID program is to restructure
the teaching methods of an entire school and to
open access to the curricula that will ensure
four-year college eligibility to almost all
students.
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The AVID Student Profile
Students with Academic Potential

• Average to High Test Scores
• 2.0 - 3.5 GPA
• College Potential with Support
• Desire and Determination

Meets One or More of the Following Criteria

• First to Attend College
• Historically Underserved in 4-year Colleges
• Low Income
• Special Circumstances

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• WRITING
• Prewrite Draft
• Respond Revise
• Edit Final Draft
• Class Textbook Cornell Note-taking
• Learning Logs Journals

• INQUIRY
• Skilled Questioning
• Socratic Seminars
• Quickwrite/Discussion
• Critical Thinking
• Activities
• Writing Questions
• Open-Minded Activities

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• COLLABORATION
• Group Projects
• Study Groups
• Jigsaw Activities
• Read-Arounds
• Response/Edit/Revision Groups
• Collaborative Activities

• READING
• SQ3R (Survey, Question,Read,
  Recite, Review)
• KWL (what I Know Want to Learn
  Learned)
• Reciprocal teaching
• Think-alouds

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A SAMPLE WEEK IN THE AVID ELECTIVE

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Binder Evaluation

Avid Curriculum
Tutorials
Avid Curriculum
Tutorials
Field Trips
Media Center
Combination
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Motivational
Block Schedule
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AVID Curriculum includes
AVID Tutorials

Writing Curriculum

Collaborative Study Groups

College and Careers

Writing Groups

Strategies for Success

Socratic Seminars
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Why AVID Works

• Places low-achieving students in
  rigorous curriculum and gives
  them the support to achieve therein
• Provides the explicit hidden
  curriculum of schools
• Constructing School Success The Consequences
• of Untracking Low Achieving Students, Mehan et
  al, 1996

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Why AVID Works

• Provides a team of students for positive
  peer identification
• Redefines teachers role as that of student
  advocate
• Constructing School Success
• The Consequences of Untracking
• Low Achieving Students, Mehan et al, 1996

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Why AVID Works

• Focuses on academic success of low-achieving
  students as a school- wide issue, with
  significant portions of the school culture
  mobilized toward their success
• Constructing School Success
• The Consequences of Untracking
• Low Achieving Students, Mehan et al, 1996

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AVID College Graduates

• 95 are enrolled in a college or university
• 92 of seniors took either the SAT or ACT
• 52 of AVID seniors took at least one AP or IB
  exam
• 87 of the seniors were accepted to four year
  colleges
• Within California, 18 were accepted to a UC
• 75 of the graduates are working either full or
  part-time to send themselves through
  college

CREATE, Center for Research and Evaluation in
Education, 2002, Palo Alto, CA (AVID students in
California schools)
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