The Mission of AVID
AVID is designed to increase school-wide learning and performance. The mission of AVID is to ensure that all students, especially the least served students “in the middle” who are capable of completing a college preparatory path:
- succeed in rigorous curriculum,
- enter mainstream activities of the school,
- enroll in four-year colleges, and
- become educated and responsible participants and leaders in a democratic society
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AVID Offers…
- Structured support for academic success in challenging courses
- Focus on writing, inquiry, collaboration, and reading (WIC-R)
- Emphasis on study skills, organization, goal setting, time management, test-taking skills--all connected to coursework
- Tutorials using higher-level thinking, providing increased time to study coursework more deeply
- Exploration of colleges and careers
- Overt teaching of the “hidden curriculum”
- Redefined academic peer group
- Connection to caring adults
- Support for parents/guardians in being involved in their students’ education
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AVID Graduates
- 95% are enrolled in a college or university
- 71.1% are attending a four-year university
- 23.7% are attending a two-year college
- 75% of the graduates are working either full or part time to send themselves through college
CREATE, Center for Research and Evaluation in Education, Burlingame, CA, 1999. |
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
AVID graduates are continuing to perform well in college with a mean GPA of 2.94.
CREATE, Center for Research and Evaluation in Education, Burlingame, CA, 1999.
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