AVID stands for
Advancement Via Individual
Determination.
 It is a program that helps
students achieve in life and
go to college.
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What we do in the AVID
elective are
~ Coronel Notes
~ Timed Writings
~ AVID weekly
~ Writing helps students
express their thoughts and
feelings. The letter we
wrote to the governor and
all our quick writes are
good examples of this.
~ The smart goals give us
inspiration
Dear Governor Brown,
My name is Stephanie Franco. I am thirteen years old in Blackstock
Jr. high. I am in the AVID program. I’ve been in it for two years now.
This program has helped me a lot especially now that I’m in eight
grade. Its been helping me get caught up in my grades and give me
lots of opportunities in being a great example for other fellow AVID
students. My AVID teachers are the ones that give me the support to
help me when I’m not doing great in my grades. AVID is the program
that helps me in everything that it can to help me enroll into college in
the future but if u keep on cutting the budget for the AVID teachers,
tutors, and for the program. We are not going to be able to get the
support and have no more AVID in our school system.
Would you want the test scores of students in California dropping?
Have you ever wondered that this program has helped many students
receiving scholarships can have the opportunity to go to college?
Have you noticed that Hispanics are the ones that need this program.
I am Hispanic so I know that we are the ones to be pushed at to do
our work. We need the encouragement of our teachers giving us
support. Well, I read in a paper that you wanted to cut the funding
and the money for AVID. AVID is a program that helps lots of students
around the country to give us a better future. If we don’t have this
program in the state of California. Us the Hispanics which need it the
most, just like others we need the support. The program makes us
understand a lot of standards and makes us achieve goals. They wont
have tutors because we aren’t going to get funding. No more college
fieldtrips. We wont have any motivations and that would make in my
opinion more students dropping out of high school because we wont
have that much support from our teachers.
Mr. Brown please don’t cut the funding for AVID this is important
to me and to the people in the program. I need the program for my
next four years of high school because then I wont have the support I
need . Its not fair that the program is going to be cut because the
teachers are going to have low payments. Us students wont have the
support and the grades to go to college.
Dear Governor Jerry Brown,
Avid does not deserve to have its funding
cut. Avid is a great program that makes a
huge difference in students’ lives. Therefore it
should not be taken away from us . My name
is Goretti Alvarez and I am an eighth grade
student at Blackstock Junior High School. I
have been in the AVID program since the
sixth grade and hoped to continue on in high
school, but I won’t be able to if you cut the
funding for AVID in the state of California.
Statistics show that 91.3% of AVID high
school graduates plan to enroll in a college or
university,89% of Hispanic California high
school AVID students complete A-G
requirements, compared to 22% of Hispanic
California high school students overall
complete their A-G requirements. Looking at
these statistics you can see that AVID makes
a huge difference in students’ lives. These
statistics also show the main goal of AVID,
getting students to college.
California is not the number on state in
education, but with Avid it is not far from
other states. With AVID out of the picture
California education rates will go down. What
you are doing does not make sense because
it is proven that AVID impacts, helps, and
improves students’ lives in many different
ways. AVID teaches its students to become
leaders and go on to achieve many great
things in life. By taking AVID funding in the
state of California away you will also be
taking away academic success from more
than a third of students in the United States of
America. I hope that all the letters that you
receive will help motivate you to change your
mind.
Students who
inquire process
information. They use
the knowledge they
already have to gain
new understandings.
They inquire to probe
for additional
information.
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Examples of the use of
inquiry in the AVID
program are
philosophical chairs,
Costas Level of Thinking
questions, and
• The
purpose of a Socratic
Seminar is to achieve a
deeper understanding about
the ideas and values of the
topic.
•The conversation between
groups is a great example of
inquiry and collaboration.

When collaborating
students work
together in groups or
partners. They are
interacting. A good
example of this is
tutorial groups.

To be an organized AVID
student you have to
maintain a clean binder,
write in your agenda
daily, and check your
progress.
Good binder
Not a good binder
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To get a better
understanding of
what we are reading
in our AVID class we
mark the text, take
Cornell notes, have
discussions, and
summarize and
reflect.