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May 18, 2013
SSUSD approves AVID membership
Ridgecrestca.com
The Sierra Sands Unified School Board of Education voted 6-0 Thursday to approve the Advancement Via Individual Determination implementation agreement for AVID Membership, materials and training.
Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum and Instruction Shirley Kennedy said the Elementary and Secondary Education Act as well as the principles of Common Core place major emphasis upon professional development and the use of validated research-based programs and strategies in order to improve student achievement and facilitate college readiness... More
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May 15, 2013
EDUCATION: UCR honors high school AVID seniors
The Press-Enterprise
Advancement Via Individual Determination seniors from 50 Riverside County high schools were honored recently at a recognition ceremony at UC Riverside.
AVID is an international education program that began in San Diego and targets students in the academic middle who have a willingness to work toward college acceptance. Typically, AVID students are the first in their families to attend college. Many are from low-income or minority families... More
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May 14, 2013
Lamar joins ranks of AVID demo schools
Midcitiesonline.com
Lamar High School was recently named an AVID National Demonstration School. This recognition is earned for being an exemplary model of the Advancement Via Individual Determination program and demonstrating the very best AVID methodologies and strategies.
AVID is a program designed to give the necessary support to students, particularly those in the academic middle, so that they can attend college and achieve their fullest potential. It also serves to level the playing field for minority and low-income students, as well as students who may be the first in their families to potentially attend college... More
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May 11, 2013
Senior graduates as district's first fully digital student
9 News
ENGLEWOOD - When Carly Sellaro walks across the stage to get her diploma, she knows she will have accomplished something never done before in the Englewood School District. For nearly her entire senior year, she gave up pen and paper altogether.
"I became the digital student of Englewood High School," said Sellaro, a graduating senior.
Englewood High School is a traditional brick-and-mortar school.
This is not an online program. At the beginning of the year, she decided to try to do everything in all of her classes with just her iPad. It started out as a challenge from the teacher in her AVID class. AVID stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination... More
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May 6, 2013
School Life: ECPPS celebrates first AVID graduation
Elizabeth City Daily Advance
The Elizabeth City-Pasquotank Public Schools Education Foundation last week recognized the first class of graduating seniors for the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program.
The Foundation also recognized the 2013 Principal of the Year for ECPPS, Elizabeth City Middle’s Cynthia Morris, and recipients of 2012-13 innovative grants. The event was held May 1 at Performance Chevrolet.
Before the ceremony, guests had a chance to learn about AVID and the various grant-funded projects, as AVID students and grant recipients manned tables with displays that described what they have been doing... More
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May 6, 2013
Cool School – Rampello – 920 AM
FOX
Watch the Cool School video to learn more about Rampello Downtown partnership... More
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May 3, 2013
CUHS AVID program celebrates college-bound seniors, 20th anniversary
Imperial Valley Press
Central Union High School educators past and present celebrated the success of the school’s AVID program and this year’s college-bound seniors at its AVID awards night Thursday.
For the past 20 years, the Advancement Via Individual Determination program at Central High has helped students on their path toward higher education.
This year, 49 seniors were celebrated at the ceremony for their academic achievement, community service and commitment to a two- or four-year college... More
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May 3, 2013
Whittier Middle School named national college-readiness campus
San Antonio Express News
Whittier Middle School, in the San Antonio Independent School District, has been chosen as a national demonstration campus for a college readiness program called AVID — sharing the limelight with only about 135 other schools implementing the concept nationwide.
Advancement Via Individual Determination teaches students organization and study skills and critical problem solving. It's currently being taught in about 4,900 schools in 45 states and the District of Columbia, according to an SAISD press release.
Whittier has been implementing AVID for 10 years... More
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May 3, 2013
Aiming to advance children’s individual determination
Kaiserslautern American
The Advancement Via Individual Determination program is available to more than 4,800 elementary, middle and high schools in 48 states and 16 countries and territories.
AVID is for children in elementary, middle and high school.
The program is a college readiness program used to get children prepared for college, said AVID tutor Vanessa Santos.
“When children come through, we really want to focus on the ‘I’ and ‘D’ in AVID,” Santos said. “Getting them to gain their individual determination will be a major part of them succeeding in college.” ... More
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May 2, 2013
Tempe High program helps remove hurdles on way to college
AZCentral.com
Attending college had always been a goal of Tempe High senior Crystal Cordova even though the odds were not on her side.
Now, as the scholarship dollars roll in and Crystal, 17, weighs whether she will enter Arizona State or Aurora University in Illinois in the fall, the prospective nursing student credits her school’s AVID program with tipping the scales in her favor.
The Advancement via Individual Determination program offers selected students a more rigorous course load designed to give them an academic push needed not only to get them into college but also to prepare them to perform at a university level. In its sixth year at Tempe High, the program is geared toward students who have the potential to earn a college degree but face obstacles that typically prevent that accomplishment... More
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April 30, 2013
2 John Tyler students selected as Gates Millennium Scholars
KLTV
TYLER, TX (KLTV) - Tyler ISD announced today that two John Tyler High School seniors have been selected as part of the Gates Millennium Scholars class of 2013.
Each year more than 54,000 students from across the nation apply, but only 1,000 are selected as Gates Millennium Scholars.
Ceron Ford and Ana Ceratos are Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) students who have been guided and supported throughout their educational career by their parents and many Tyler ISD educators... More
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April 30, 2013
HEMET: Schools recognized for AVID excellence
The Press-Enterprise
Many middle and high schools across the United States offer AVID, a program that seeks to help students get into college.
But only 3 percent of those programs are designated AVID National Demonstration Schools -- and two of those are in Hemet.
Rancho Viejo Middle School earned the distinction in late March. West Valley High was reauthorized for three more years in October after being recognized for the first time in 2009.
Advancement Via Individual Determination is a college readiness program aimed at students who wouldn’t otherwise go on to higher education... More
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April 30, 2013
Woodard named an AVID Demonstration School
YumaSun.com
On Tuesday, Woodard Junior High School received national recognition for being named a AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) Demonstration School.
Woodard joins approximately 125 other schools in receiving the honor after undergoing an application process, screening and review and various site visits.
There are over 4,900 schools in the U.S. and around the world that have implemented AVID, which prepares students for college and works to close the achievement gap... More
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April 29, 2013
Rowland AVID students heading to college
San Gabriel Valley Tribune
A small group of seniors at Rowland High are avid about going to college.
Of course, they all belong to AVID, a special program designed to support students in the academic middle so that they can attend college and achieve their fullest potential. The acronym stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination,
"All 16 seniors have been accepted to college. This is the first year that our AVID program has a 100 percent success rate," said AVID teacher Jake Magnant. "Last year, all but one of our seniors got into a four-year college and he went to a community college where his mother works."... More
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April 26, 2013
Students from across county encouraged to strive for college
Ventura County Star
College was just a dream for Janeth Moran-Cervantes.
But thanks to a program called Advancement Via Individual Determination, or AVID, her dream became reality.
As a way to give back to the program that helped pave her way to college, the 23-year-old on Friday morning offered feedback to graduating seniors on lessons she learned from AVID that would help them apply to college and succeed.
Available for students in sixth- through 12th-graders, the program helps participants set goals, choose classes that prepare them for college, learn study skills, and apply for grants and scholarships, said Denise Thomas, county coordinator for the program... More
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April 26, 2013
AVID students recognized for achievement
The Emporia Gazette
Students in the Emporia school district who participate in AVID, a college-readiness system for elementary through higher education, were recognized during a board meeting Wednesday night for helping the district meet some board goals.
AVID is characterized by including students who are the first in the family to attend college, who are historically underserved in four-year colleges or who come from low-income families.
Specifically, the students were recognized for helping the district rank consistently in the top quartile of state and national school districts for students prepared to be college- and career-ready.
Also, they were recognized for helping to improve and assure an effective culture for learning with all students, parents, staff and community members
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April 25, 2013
Struggling students receive help with AVID program
The Globe
The fifth annual Advancement via Individual Determination career exposition exemplified the range of careers Brewster Middle School 6th through 8th grade students chose for a path to a successful college degree.
Since 1980, the program has enabled middle and high school students with support and advancement through higher education... More
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April 23, 2013
NPS making college-readiness investment
The Norman Transcript
NORMAN — A lengthy awards ceremony was followed by an in-depth informational discussion on the district’s latest college-readiness investment at the Norman School Board meeting Monday evening.
Norman Public Schools’ general funds, bolstered by a $67,000 grant for Norman High and Norman North high schools, will implement AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) in both schools, introducing a new elective class and teacher support program designed to boost representation of under-served demographics in Advanced Placement classes... More
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April 23, 2013
Rewarding hard work
OA Online
MIDLAND Monday night at Wagner Noël Performing Arts Center wasn’t much different than others. There was beautiful music, standing ovations, a fair share of shrieking and laughing. And the house was nearly full.
Only on this night, the accolades didn’t belong to a famous musician passing through West Texas but to the 1,200 AVID students of Ector County ISD.
Their hard work paid off - and will pay dividends - as they were honored during a pep rally and celebration. The highlights of the show included seniors receiving their cords to wear on graduation day, a performance by guitarist Jared Campbell, the raffling off of nine laptops to students and the University of Texas of the Permian Basin President David Watts announcing every student in AVID would receive a scholarship to UTPB... More
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April 23, 2013
OUR VIEW: Hats off to AVID students
OA Online
The Ector County Independent School District’s 1,200 AVID students were celebrated Monday night in a big way.
AVID, Advancement Via Individual Determination, is a teaching method designed to increase organizational skills, study methods and require critical thinking among students as well as prepare students to think about college at a young age. In the secondary level, the elective course allows students to tutor with college students and offer support with college goals... More
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April 22, 2013
Program in Walla Walla sows seeds for college
Walla Walla Union-Bulletin
WALLA WALLA — A culture of college is taking shape at Sharpstein Elementary.
Principal Matt Bona uses the expression to describe some of the changes introduced in the school this year.
A wall in the school’s cafeteria has been dedicated to the names of Sharpstein educators and the corresponding college or university from which they graduated.
Each classroom has also adopted a school, starting with pendants that were handed out to teachers to be displayed by classroom doors. Teachers were then free to add touches of college spirit in their rooms.
The schoolwide movement to get students thinking about college is being supported by the AVID Elementary program, introduced at Sharpstein last fall.
The school’s fourth- and fifth-grade students — about 180 in all — are the first elementary school students in Walla Walla Public Schools to take part in AVID, which stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination... More
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April 16, 2013
OUR VIEW: AVID program sets students on right path
OA Online
Hat’s off, or maybe we should say graduation cap’s off, to Odessa High School Senior
De’ Kwaan Wynn and to the AVID program at ECISD.
AVID, Advancement Via Individual Determination, helped the OHS student leader win a $20,000 scholarship from the Michael and Susan Dell Foundation as part of the Dell Scholars program... More
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April 16, 2013
Gov. Mark Dayton visits Lake Middle School
Woodbury Bulletin
Lake Middle School welcomed a special guest to the school last Friday.
Gov. Mark Dayton visited the school April 12 to talk with eighth grade students who are in the Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) program.
The AVID program targets students in the academic middle who have the desire to go to college and the willingness to work hard.
“The goal of AVID is to close the achievement gap so students can be successful in college,” said LMS AVID teacher Casey Tody.
This is the first year that LMS has offered AVID... More
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April 10, 2013
Extra Credit: East High's AVID/TOPS program recognized as national model
WISCONSIN STATE JOURNAL
Madison East High School has been designated as a national demonstration site for a college preparatory program that has shown success raising achievement for low-income and minority students, the Madison School District announced Wednesday.
The AVID, or Advancement Via Individual Determination, program began at East in 2008 and provides study skills and accelerated courses to students in the academic middle with college aspirations. It includes a unique partnership with the Boys & Girls Club of Dane County TOPS, or Teens of Promise, tutoring and mentor program.
The AVID program is used by 4,000 schools in 15 countries, but only the top 2 percent are designated as demonstration sites. The TOPS partnership is the only AVID partnership of its kind in the country, according to the School District... More
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April 4, 2013
East Bakersfield High School's AVID becomes a national demonstration school program
23 ABC
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. - Area students are learning that college doesn't just have to be something they dream about. The AVID program at East Bakersfield High School prepares young people to succeed in higher education and in a global society.
The AVID program uses research based methods to teach and accelerate student learning and now East High, considered a national AVID demonstration school can give more students hope of having a college diploma.
Dorian Behill is getting ready to do something he never imagined he would be able to accomplish four years ago.
"Just didn't seem very possible because I am going to be the first person in my family to be going to college so, it just seems like one of those types of situations where no one before has done it and so you wouldn't know what to do," said Behill.
As a member of the Advancement Via Individual Determination or AVID program, Behill is able to focus more on his future... More
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