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AVID Hello Parents, For those who are not aware, AVID is an acronym for: Advancement Via Individual Determination. This class is designed to give average students a chance to improve on the skills they need to make it through college. The AVID philosophy is that if students can learn about and practice core academic and organizational skills starting in Middle School (or even earlier), they will have a much greater chance to be successful college students. My year in AVID has been a learning experience. I attended AVID program training in San Diego last summer. One of the most frequent comments at the training about the average AVID classroom is that it is never dull and quiet. They certainly got that right! It has been awesome to get the chance to work with so many wonderful and hard-working students this year. Their energy, creativity, humor, and passion for learning is truly inspiring on a daily basis, and also fairly LOUD on a daily basis! I guess they really weren't joking at that training! With the increased volume has also come increased learning and a sense of peer support as they help each other achieve their academic goals. The AVID training and philosophy has actually influenced the way I teach all of my classes. As you can see, AVID is all about improving success at school. Mira Loma Middle School has a definite need to improve student success, but not just for our AVID students. Test scores school-wide show that all of our students need to improve. Because of this, Mira Loma Middle School has strived to make some major and exciting changes for the entire school based on the AVID program and philosophy. These changes are designed to help address our need for increased school-wide student achievement. Of course, change of this magnitude brings some unavoidable problems. In this case, our new schedule places a much greater need for me to teach other classes, and unfortunately, the schedule will not allow me to be able to continue teaching AVID next school year. I was looking forward to a second year of AVID, as there are so many new things I wanted to try with my class. At the same time, I know that all of the students in my exploratory classes will continue to benefit from my AVID training. Hopefully, our schedule can be tweaked a bit in the future and I will once again have the awesome opportunity to teach an AVID class. In the meantime, we have some fun experiences ahead of us in our AVID class as we head into the last part of the school year. Stop back to the site; I will keep things updated as we go. Mr. Schumacher

The School Zone

AVID

Hello Parents,

For those who are not aware, AVID is an acronym for:

Advancement

Via

Individual

Determination.

This class is designed to give average students a chance to improve on the skills they need to make it through college. The AVID philosophy is that if students can learn about and practice core academic and organizational skills starting in Middle School (or even earlier), they will have a much greater chance to be successful college students.

My year in AVID has been a learning experience. I attended AVID program training in San Diego last summer. One of the most frequent comments at the training about the average AVID classroom is that it is never dull and quiet. They certainly got that right! It has been awesome to get the chance to work with so many wonderful and hard-working students this year. Their energy, creativity, humor, and passion for learning is truly inspiring on a daily basis, and also fairly LOUD on a daily basis! I guess they really weren't joking at that training! With the increased volume has also come increased learning and a sense of peer support as they help each other achieve their academic goals. The AVID training and philosophy has actually influenced the way I teach all of my classes.

As you can see, AVID is all about improving success at school. Mira Loma Middle School has a definite need to improve student success, but not just for our AVID students. Test scores school-wide show that all of our students need to improve. Because of this, Mira Loma Middle School has strived to make some major and exciting changes for the entire school based on the AVID program and philosophy. These changes are designed to help address our need for increased school-wide student achievement.

Of course, change of this magnitude brings some unavoidable problems. In this case, our new schedule places a much greater need for me to teach other classes, and unfortunately, the schedule will not allow me to be able to continue teaching AVID next school year. I was looking forward to a second year of AVID, as there are so many new things I wanted to try with my class. At the same time, I know that all of the students in my exploratory classes will continue to benefit from my AVID training. Hopefully, our schedule can be tweaked a bit in the future and I will once again have the awesome opportunity to teach an AVID class. In the meantime, we have some fun experiences ahead of us in our AVID class as we head into the last part of the school year. Stop back to the site; I will keep things updated as we go.

Mr. Schumacher