AVID Advancement Via Individual Determination Recruitment Presentation - 13 slides TOPICS Why take AVID as an elective class? Current Statistics Education and Money Student Expectations Leadership By AVID Site Team, Vista Del Mar

Why take the AVID class?

The Challenge White/non Latino African American Latino For every 100 Students of each ethnicity that begin Kindergarten: White/non Latino African American Latino Graduate High School Earn at least a Bachelors Degree 93 87 63 33 18 11 EdTrust 2005

Meeting a-g requirements AVID Rising to Meet the Challenge Meeting a-g requirements

San Ysidro High School AVID All AVID seniors are going to a college/university! AVID National Demonstration School UCLA USD UC-Berkley UCSD UCI SDSU

California AVID Graduates 95% are enrolled in a college or university 71% are attending a four-year university 89% are still enrolled at end of Sophomore year. 75% of the graduates are working either full or part-time to send themselves through college * Source: CREATE, Center for Research and Evaluation in Education. Palo Alto, CA

Higher Education = More Income

VDM AVID Elective Period 6 1:24-2:19 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday AVID Curriculum Tutorials (College Tutors) & Mentor Coaching School wide activities (dances) AVID Curriculum includes: Socratic Seminars Critical Reading and Writing Strategies AVID Tutorials: Collaborative Groups

AVID Tutorials Tuesday Thursday College tutors help promote peer collaboration and critical thinking skills related to problems in content subjects.

AVID Student Expectations G-TWICR Goal Setting (GPA, college, life) Time Management (study skills, binder organization, daily plan) Writing (Cornell Notes, learning logs, essays) Inquiry (critical thinking skills = L1, L2, L3 questions) Collaboration (Tutorials, Socratic Seminars, projects) Reading (critical reading strategies)

Leadership Mentor coaching (elementary and middle school) * School wide incentives (dances, events) YouTube Links! Halloween (2) Christmas Valentine’s

College and Professional Awareness Guest speakers!

Contact information. Ryan Dickes * VDM AVID Coordinator and 8th Grade AVID Elective Teacher rdickes@sysd.k12.ca.us