1. The Road to College: Rigor, Readiness, and Relationships

2. Name Tent Instructions  On BOTH sides, write your name large and in the middle  On ONE side,write:  Top left – Which elementary school you attended  Top right – Your favorite school subject  Bottom left – The best thing you did this summer  Bottom right – What superpower you would like to have

4. A dvancement V ia I ndividual D etermination [L. avidus]: eager for knowledge [L. avidus]: eager for knowledge

5. The AVID Elective Curriculum

6. Colleges and Universities Community Parents Administration Counselors Subject Area Teachers Tutors AVID Coordinator (AVID Elective Teacher) AVID Support Staff Student Collaborative Support for the Success of Students

7. Rigor is the goal of helping students develop the capacity to understand content that is complex, ambiguous, provocative, and personally or emotionally challenging. Taking rigorous courses opens doors! Source: Teaching What Matters Most; Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement by Strong, Silver and Perini, ASCD, 2001. What is Academic Rigor?

8. AVID Closes the Achievement Gap for ALL Students AVID Center. AVID Senior Data Collection. Study of 22,210 AVID Seniors, [Electronic Database]. (2009 - 2010). Manhattan Institute, Education Working Paper 3. 2003. Greene, J.P., Forster, G. "Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the U.S.“ (The most recent national data available.) *Filipino and Other not classified in Manhattan Institute study.