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The Road to College

The Road to College. Ennis Independent School District. The Mission of AVID. AVID's mission is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society. What is AVID?.

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The Road to College

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  1. The Road to College Ennis Independent School District

  2. The Mission of AVID AVID's mission is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society.

  3. What is AVID? • A structured, college preparatory system working directly with schools and districts • A direct support structure for first-generation college goers, grades 4-12 • A schoolwide approach to curriculum and rigor adopted by nearly 4,500 schools in 45 states and 15 countries • A professional development program providing training throughout the world.

  4. Why Ennis ISD Needed AVID

  5. Why Ennis Community Needed AVID Challenging Demographics Leveling the Playing Field

  6. The AVID Student Profile • Students With Academic Potential • Average to high test scores • 2.0-3.5 GPA • College potential with support • Desire and determination • Meets One or More of the Following Criteria • First to attend college • Historically underserved in four-year colleges • Low income • Special circumstances

  7. The 11 Essentials • What is necessary for successful implementation: • AVID student selection • Voluntary participation by all • AVID elective class offered during the school day • Rigorous course of study (advanced classes) • Strong, relevant writing and reading curriculum

  8. The 11 Essentials (continued) • Inquiry to promote critical thinking • Collaboration as a basis of instruction • Trained tutors • Data collection and analysis • District and school commitment • Active interdisciplinary site team

  9. A Sample Week in the AVID Elective DailyorBlock Schedule • AVID Tutorials Include: • Collaborative Study Groups • Writing Groups • Socratic Seminars • AVID Curriculum Includes: • Writing Curriculum • College and Careers • Strategies for Success • Critical Reading

  10. What is Academic Rigor? One of the keys to AVID is exposing the students to rigorous course work (Essential 4). 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.

  11. Meeting the Challenge To help all students do rigorous work and meet or exceed high standards in each content area, we must help students: • Develop as readers and writers. • Develop deep content knowledge. • Know content specific strategies for reading, writing, thinking and talking. • Develop habits, skills, and behaviors to use knowledge and skills.

  12. WICR Writing • Writing Process: Prewrite through Final Draft • Respond, Revise • Edit, Final Draft • Class and Textbook Cornell Notes • Quickwrites • Learning Logs and Journals

  13. WICR Inquiry • Skilled Questioning • Socratic Seminars • Quickwrites/Discussions • Critical Thinking Activities • Writing Questions • Open-Minded Activities

  14. WICR Collaboration • Group Projects • Study Groups • Jigsaw Activities • Read-Arounds • Response/Edit/Revision Groups • Collaboration Activities • Tutorial

  15. WICR Reading • SQ5R (Survey, Question, Read, Record, Recite, Review, Reflect) • KWL (What I Know; What to Learn; Learned) • Reciprocal Teaching • “Think-alouds” • Critical Reading

  16. AVID: 30 Years of Success Over 30 years, AVID has become one of the most successful college-preparatory programs ever for low-income, underserved students, and today reaches approximately 400,000 students in nearly 4,500 schools in 45 states and 16 other countries.

  17. AVID in Ennis I.S.D. • Implemented Fall of 2007 in grades 6, 7, and 8 • Goal has been to expand vertically but we have also expanded some horizontally • Currently have AVID in grades 4 through 11 • Three sections of AVID at grades 7-10 and two sections at grade 11

  18. Critical Implementation Issues • Support from your Board of Education • Support from Superintendent • Real support from the campus principal • Allowing the district director time and resources • Finding the right AVID elective teacher • Finding the right AVID site team • Selecting students • Time

  19. Ennis I.S.D. Timeline • Attended an AVID Awareness session in January 2007 • By March we had decided to move forward at the Junior High • April 2007 we interviewed and selected the AVID teacher and site team • May 2007 we selected current 6th and 7th graders to be in AVID starting the fall of 2007

  20. Funding Sources • House Bill 1 • Grants • Student Fundraising

  21. AVID Enrollments in Ennis I.S.D.

  22. AP and Pre-AP Enrollments for AVID Students

  23. TAKS Scores

  24. Public Relations is a must • Presentations to the Board of Education • Staff Development on the campuses • Program visible on campus • Newspaper articles • Website • Lions Club, Rotary Club, Chamber of Commerce, etc. • Let your students speak

  25. The Benefits • More students attending college • Creating college going atmosphere on campus • Strong staff development • Strong curriculum that eventually spreads across campus • Giving students in the middle something in which they can belong • Opening access to rigorous courses

  26. The Benefits • More students in more advanced classes equals an improved academic atmosphere • Developing AVID elective teachers as campus leaders • Developing AVID students as campus leaders • Growing your own (AVID students become tutors, AVID tutors become teachers)

  27. The Disadvantages • It costs money • Personnel units – District Director, Elective Teachers, and Tutors

  28. AVID in Ennis I.S.D.

  29. AVID Graduates • 92% plan to enroll in a college or university • 60% plan to enroll in a four-year university • 32% plan to enroll in a two-year college Source: AVID Center Senior Data Collection System, 2008-2009 Percentages have been rounded to the nearest whole percent

  30. Percent of Students Applying and Getting Accepted to Four-Year Colleges One of the most impressive and consistent indicators of AVID's success is the rate at which it sends students to four-year colleges. Seventy-eight percent of 2008 AVID graduates were accepted to a four-year college.

  31. Contact information Barbara Qualls, Kathy Cikanek, Brian Fry 303 W. Knox Ennis, Texas 75119 barbara.qualls@ennis.k12.tx.us kathy.cikanek@ennis.k12.tx.us brian.fry@ennis.k12.tx.us www.avidonline.org

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