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What is AVID?
AVID is not just another program…at its heart, AVID is a philosophy. AVID holds students accountable to the highest standards, provides academic and social support...ensuring that they will rise to the challenge.
Purpose of AVID
AVID recognizes that the only way students can get into or through college is by perseverance, hard work, and, as the program’s name reveals, “individual determination.” AVID students get no special break, only a chance. AVID provides what first generation college students may lack, what advantaged students receive from their parents and community: high expectations, encouragement, day to day help, a vision of college as attainable, an advocate, and guidance in how to negotiate the system. AVID involves students in a strong group of peers and adults who share a commitment to academic achievement. AVID targets students of mid-range ability who have the potential to succeed in a rigorous academic program but who would not succeed without support. It is not a remedial program for students who are failing, and it is not for gifted students who are already performing well. It serves the students in the middle, who are capable of success but are not performing up to their potential. AVID is a program that equips ordinary students to accomplish extraordinary things.
AVID develops learning, study and academic behavioral skills that are essential to success in rigorous coursework. It acts as a catalyst for schools to develop a culture of college readiness for all students across the campus. In the AVID Elective class, students receive daily instruction and support to prepare them for college from a trained AVID Elective teacher. AVID impacts students school-wide as academic strategies like writing to learn, inquiry, collaboration, organizational skills, and critical reading (WICOR) are taught in all classes by teachers who have been trained to use AVID strategies in their specific content areas.
STUDENT PROFILE AVID
Student selection criteria include:
* Students with GPA’s between 2.0 and 3.5;
* Students whose stanine scores are average and above average;
* Students who may be first in their family to go to college;
* Students who qualify for free-reduced lunch;
* Students who traditionally are underserved in four-year colleges.
AVID is not just another program…at its heart, AVID is a philosophy. AVID holds students accountable to the highest standards, provides academic and social support...ensuring that they will rise to the challenge.
Purpose of AVID
AVID recognizes that the only way students can get into or through college is by perseverance, hard work, and, as the program’s name reveals, “individual determination.” AVID students get no special break, only a chance. AVID provides what first generation college students may lack, what advantaged students receive from their parents and community: high expectations, encouragement, day to day help, a vision of college as attainable, an advocate, and guidance in how to negotiate the system. AVID involves students in a strong group of peers and adults who share a commitment to academic achievement. AVID targets students of mid-range ability who have the potential to succeed in a rigorous academic program but who would not succeed without support. It is not a remedial program for students who are failing, and it is not for gifted students who are already performing well. It serves the students in the middle, who are capable of success but are not performing up to their potential. AVID is a program that equips ordinary students to accomplish extraordinary things.
AVID develops learning, study and academic behavioral skills that are essential to success in rigorous coursework. It acts as a catalyst for schools to develop a culture of college readiness for all students across the campus. In the AVID Elective class, students receive daily instruction and support to prepare them for college from a trained AVID Elective teacher. AVID impacts students school-wide as academic strategies like writing to learn, inquiry, collaboration, organizational skills, and critical reading (WICOR) are taught in all classes by teachers who have been trained to use AVID strategies in their specific content areas.
STUDENT PROFILE AVID
Student selection criteria include:
* Students with GPA’s between 2.0 and 3.5;
* Students whose stanine scores are average and above average;
* Students who may be first in their family to go to college;
* Students who qualify for free-reduced lunch;
* Students who traditionally are underserved in four-year colleges.