1. 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

2. Why take the AVID class?

3. 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

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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Higher Education = More Income

8. 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

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

10. 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)

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

12. College and Professional Awareness
Guest speakers!

13. Contact information.
Ryan Dickes
* VDM AVID Coordinator and 8th Grade AVID Elective Teacher