In my current role as administrator at Woodland Jr. High, my involvement with AVID has totally changed. I went from being the first elective teacher at our school to now getting to be the administrator that works with the current elective teacher and program coordinator to ensure that we are maximizing the program for our…

Embedded above is a short presentation that I will highlight during my visit with the University of Arkansas MAT group today. Mr. McClung

On Friday before spring break my AVID students completed their second service learning project of the school year. This project was another teacher appreciation project in which the students prepared invitations to our teachers and staff at school to join us for lunch. We prepared a huge table on our stage in the cafeteria that…

On Friday I had the opportunity to take our AVID class on their first college visit to the University of Arkansas. While there we took the standard tour of the campus and checked out what they had to offer. Students took tours of the various academic facilities of the campus and the student common areas…like…

In my AVID class we have been discussing the recent debates about the Alabama immigration law. In class we took some time to listen to a podcast from This American Life about these laws and I thought I would share the story on our blog. Mr. McClung

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Our local newspaper was kind enough to feature our AVID students once again in the paper for our service learning project a couple of weeks ago. For this project students went room to room in our school and delivered coffee and brownies to all our school staff as a sign of appreciation.  The picture above,…