An Overview of the Ridge View High School AVID Program

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An Overview of the Ridge View High School AVID
Program

• Patty Drews, Program Coordinator
• January 11 and 13, 2000

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All About AVID

• AVID stands for
• Advancement Via Individual Determination
• AVID was founded by Mary Catherine Swanson in
  1980 at Clairemont High School in the San Diego.
• AVID identifies average to above average students
  in grades 6-12 and prepares them for four-year
  college entry.
• AVID serves over 30,000 students throughout 14
  states and 13 foreign countries.
• Since 1990, over 10,000 students have graduated
  from AVID programs.

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All About AVID

• Over 90 of AVIDs graduates enroll in college.
• AVID graduates persist in college at an 89
  rate.
• Over 60 of the AVID graduates enroll in
  four-year colleges.
• The AVID network of schools includes over 700
  sites (Ridge View was the first in South
  Carolina).
• Some of AVIDs awards include the Salute to
  Excellence Award for Staff Development and
  Leadership from the National Council of States on
  Inservice Education, the Dana Foundation Award
  for Pioneering Achievement in Education, and the
  A Award from the U.S. Department of Education
  for Efforts to Reach the National Education Goals.

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The Mission of AVID

• The mission of AVID is to ensure that all
  students, and most especially 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
• will become educated and responsible
  participants and leaders in a democratic
  society

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• 92.8 of AVID students are enrolling in college
  and 89 of them are still enrolled two years
  later.
• This is an enrollment rate 75 higher than the
  national average and a retention rate 56 higher
  than the average.

Mehan, 1996
LC
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Increasingly over the past thirty years, new
jobs have been filled by people with college
degrees, including more than 90 of the net new
jobs.
McCarthy and Vernez, Immigration in a Changing
Economy, RAND, 1997
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AVID educational leaders provide a sense of
well-being for students within the school setting.
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AVID educational leaders insist that students
are placed into rigorous curriculum and given the
academic support to be successful therein.
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Students must feel they belong in school, where
adults care about their well-being.

• Students must be given rigorous curriculum they
  cannot learn what they are never exposed to.

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AVID Research findings

• Students know they belong to an academic group
• Student success is desired outcome
• Organizational structures work to heighten
  student learning

Research, Evaluation Technology
Division California Department of Education, 1993
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Steps in applying for AVID

• Fill out an application
• Set up an interview with
• students and parents
• Review Middle School
• test scores and grades
• Receive teacher and
• guidance recommendations

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Structure of AVID at RVHS

• Class setup
• A/B schedule
• Blocked with English
• Receive credit for health
• Skills acquired
• Note taking
• Cornell notes
• Time management
• Organizational skills
• binder

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Structure of AVID at RVHS

• Tutoring
• College Students
• Emphasis on Service Projects,
• Cultural Events, and Field Trips

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Service Projects

• Walk for Diabetes
• Adopt-a-Highway (Hardscrabble)
• Giving Bowl
• Landscaping Ridge View
• Foster Children
• Souper Bowl
• Service Hours (16hrs)

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AVID students involved in service projects
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Cultural Events

• Four Cultural Events a year

AVID students visiting the Columbia Art Museum
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Field Trips
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Ridge View High School
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed people can change the world indeed,
it is the only thing that ever has.
Margaret Mead Culture and Commitment, 1978