AVID District Meeting

The other day we met as a district. High School Site team, and the two middle schools' AVID Elective Teachers. We talked about tutors, funding, a grant for the high school that makes them look at AVID tools and AVID school-wide, etc etc. The best part though was about vertical teaming. How do our middle school students perform at the high school? What do we need to do differently?

Here's what we came to...
1. The Connely article from AVID Summer Institute described particular attributes of students who are successful. We talked about how to have students understand the descriptors and assess themselves in reflection.
2. Read more...AVID students need to read more.
3. Math regularly during tutorials that are planned by teachers and tutors in conjunction with the math department instead of all tutorials being student generated (we'll see how that goes).
4. Time management as a focus.
5. We're also going to see if the media class can produce a video about "a Day in the Life of" several high school students to give middle school students a chance to see what the expectations, benefits and negatives are to high school. I think kids are getting tired of hearing what we think they should be and how they should go about it.

We'll see how it works out.