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AVID

Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) is a college readiness program designed to increase the number of students who enroll in four-year colleges.

The formula is simple: raise expectations of students and, with the AVID support system in place, they will rise to the challenge. AVID is a 4th-12th grade system that prepares students in the academic middle for four-year college eligibility. It has a proven track record in bringing out the best in students, and in closing the achievement gap. 

PVSchools, and North Canyon have taken methodologies and strategies from the elective AVID course and implemented them school wide and district wide to impact their entire communities and create articulated programs for college success. Use of AVID methodologies, such as Cornell note-taking, use of a binder, Socratic seminars, and group collaboration, in all classes helps create a college-going culture across the campus. The program is intended for students in the academic middle - B, C and D students - who are often under-represented and will be the first generation college students. 
 

What differentiates AVID from other educational reform programs is its astounding success rate. Since 1990, more than 65,300 AVID students have graduated from high school and planned to attend college. Of the 2009 AVID graduates, 92 percent planned to attend college; 60 percent to a four-year college and 32 percent to a two-year college. As a result, educators now consider AVID's mission to be an essential strategy for closing the achievement gap, making college access and success available to all students.