Slide 1: Daniel Ortiz Middle School Houston Independent School District
AVID Program
ADVANCEMENT VIA INDIVIDUAL DETERMINATION
[L. avidus]: eager for knowledge
Slide 2: The Mission of AVID
AVID is designed to increase school wide 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:
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will succeed in 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.
Slide 3: 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.
Slide 4: AVID: Collaborative Support for the Success of Underserved Students
AVID Support Staff Colleges and Universities
Community
AVID Coordinator (AVID Elective Teacher)
Parents
Student
Administration
Tutors Subject Area Teachers Counselors
Slide 5: Writing to Learn Inquiry Collaboration Reading
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Slide 6: AVID Highlights
Poetry Gallery
GUEST SPEAKERS
Recruitment Posters
Slide 7: AVID Activities
Cool Careers in Health Fair
Fieldtrips
Slide 8: AVID Activities
Tutorials
Workshops
College Recruiters
PSAT Peer tutoring Cornell Notes
Slide 9: 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
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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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Slide 10: AVID Implementation Offers…
• • • • • • • Access to rigorous curriculum Structured support High-level tutorials Contact with key adults Site team focus on performance Focus on the forgotten middle Powerful staff development
Slide 11: Keys to AVID Implementation
• Select a coordinator who believes in the goals of the program. • Gain administrative support for the program. • Identify and commit resources for program costs. • Clarify the goals of the program for school faculty and gain their support. • Select interdisciplinary AVID site team. • Identify and recruit students. • Schedule class and students. • Recruit and hire tutors. • Attend Summer Institute. • Implement.
Slide 12: Students who enrolled in middle grades AVID were enrolled in high school Advanced Placement courses at a 25% rate. Ten percent of these students were enrolled in two or more courses. Students with 2 years of middle school AVID took three or more AP courses at a 12.5% rate, while those with one year of middle school AVID took three or more AP courses at a 5% rate.
LONGITUDINAL RESEARCH ON AVID 1999-2000 Center for Research, Evaluation and Training in Education, Burlingame, CA
Slide 13: Research shows that two years of middle school AVID has a positive impact on students’ course-taking patterns and academic performance in high school.
CREATE, Center for Research and Evaluation in Education, 1999, Burlingame, CA
Slide 14: School wide Library
AVID Middle Level Libraries
Implementation
Implementing and Managing the AVID Program
Write World Counselor Administrator Languages Path Science Write Write Write Path Path Write Path History/ Math Path English Social English Languag Science Language e Development Arts
Tutor Training
Tutor Training: Coordinator Edition Tutor Training: College Student Edition
Strategies for Success*
Strategies for Personal Success and Academic Success AVID Family Workshop
AVID Curriculum*
The AVID Curriculum: Writing Reading Oral Language Middle Level Portfolio
Daily Planner
*Contains coordinator/teacher editions,student editions, and activity
Slide 15: AVID students are staying in college once they enroll; 89% of those who start are in college two years later.
Mehan et al, Constructing School Success, Cambridge University Press, 1996
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Slide 16: College Research Projects
Slide 17: We are AVID
