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What's New: In the News, 2/17/12

Visitors Learn How AVID Works in ECISD

Odessa American

The Ector County Independent School District has been using a college readiness program for the past five years and on Thursday it was used as a model for a few districts across the nation to view. The Advancement Via Individual Determination program, or AVID, is currently being used at 24 of ECISD’s 25 elementary schools and offered as an elective at the secondary junior and high school campuses. There are a total of 7,693 students and 311 teachers using AVID methods in ECISD.

On Thursday, representatives from nine schools districts using some form of AVID, traveled from various states to Odessa to view the AVID model at Lyndon B. Johnson Elementary. Marilee Holmes, principal at LBJ, said it was an honor that her school was selected as an example of AVID in the district... read more

What's New: BLOG: 2/15/12

Visiting AVID in Australia

Thursday, February 15, 2012 at 9:15AM

By Jim Nelson, Executive Director, AVID Center

AVID Executive Vice President Granger Ward and I spent the week of February 6 in Australia meeting with colleagues who are either implementing AVID or supporting its growth and implementation on that amazing continent. We began working in Australia about five years ago after a wonderful AVID teacher, William DeJean, moved from Southern California to Australia to teach at a university. He introduced AVID to a group of educators from Wodonga Middle College (the equivalent of an American middle school) and it became our first site in Australia. They have flourished and AVID has spread to the secondary college (high school) and one of the feeder primary schools. William remains our AVID consultant on the continent. More recently, a team from Victoria University in Melbourne secured a grant from the Australian federal government to assist in the implementation of AVID in many more sites. We are now up to six sites, with many more to come. They are working through the Victoria Institute at the University to assist... read more

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