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- Fidelity to the AVID Model: College Readiness Results
- Hearts and Grades
- What Are We Really Doing When We Think?
- 'Twas the Night Before Binder Checks
- 10 Painless Ways to Manage the Kinetic Energy in Your Classroom
- 10 Top AVID Blogs from 2014
- 10 Ways to Infuse Your Final Exam Reviews With WICOR
- 10,000 and growing!
- 2012 AVID Highlights and Accomplishments
- 2016: The Year of…
- 21st Century Educating
- 5 Things Every School Counselor Wants You to Know
- 5 Ways to Think More Critically
- 6 Ideas to Find Fulfilling Work
- 7 Steps to Filling Out the FAFSA
- A 21st Century Troglodyte
- A Brain-Based Paradigm Shift
- A Caterpillar and a Butterfly
- A Huge Turnaround
- A Little Wisdom from Some of AVID’s Best School Counselors
- A Look Back at Key Events in Black Higher Education
- A Scholarly Look at AVID Postsecondary
- A Sneak Peek at AVID's National Conference Keynote Speaker
- A Sneak Peek* - Never Work Harder Than Your Students, an interview with Dr. Robyn Jackson
- AP Access and Democracy: A History Teacher’s Point of View
- AVID Applauds National Superintendent of the Year Finalists
- AVID Binders: We Like Them Big, But Are They Obsolete?
- AVID Center’s Board: Mapping a Future for College Readiness
- AVID Center’s Urban Success Imperative
- AVID Combines High Engagement with AP® Rigor at the First AVID-Rice College Readiness Institute
- AVID Grads Attend White House Summit
- AVID Is About the Journey
- AVID Loses an Outstanding Leader
- AVID Making Headlines: A Recap of Recent News
- AVID Poets
- AVID Postsecondary: Completing a College Readiness System
- AVID Saved Me
- AVID Schoolwide: Building a Strong Foundation
- AVID Summer Institutes Transform Educators
- AVID Teacher Gives Students Roots and Wings
- AVID Virtual College Fair
- AVID Volunteers
- AVID Wants Your Feedback!
- AVID Works with University Teacher Preparation Programs
- AVID and IB: Complementary, not Competitors
- AVID and IB: Success with a Schoolwide Approach
- AVID and STEM
- AVID and The Clemente Course in the Humanities: An Inspiring Collaboration
- AVID students stick with college, outpace peers
- AVID: Still Proving Ourselves After 31 Years - A Response to the Education Week Article
- AVID: A Game-Changer
- AVID: A Social and Economic Imperative?
- AVID: Building a Sense of Belonging
- AVID: Our Marathon
- AVID: Taking the Turn
- AVID: The Greatest Support System in Education
- AVID’s Alignment with Common Core State Standards Part 2
- AVID’s Alignment with the Common Core State Standards
- AVID’s Site Certification and Schoolwide Recognition Levels
- AVID… Hope for a Better Day, Hope for a Better Future
- Academic Placement: Creating Transparency, Equity, and Well-Defined Practices
- Academic Rigor, the Common Core State Standards, and the AVID College Readiness System
- Academic Success? College Readiness? Bring on our AVID Resource: Chinese Mothers!
- Access and Diversity in Rigorous Courses
- Addressing the Quantity AND Quality of Degrees
- Advanced Placement®: Some Research Reflections — An Interview with Dr. Kristin Klopfenstein
- Advice From the Ivy League: An AVID Alum Reflects
- Algebra in 8th grade: What’s changed?
- Angelica Tello – One mile, Two Worlds: A First Generation College Graduate on Getting To and Through College
- Another Chance to be Successful
- Are the Boys Really in a College Ready Crisis?
- At Farb Middle School, We Are AVID!
- Audio Blog: A Response to Harvard's "Pathways to Prosperity" Report
- Beating the Odds: Sometimes the System Responds
- Because of AVID
- Binder Checks are Coming to Town
- Black male students –the “BAD” and the “Brotherhood”
- Blended Learning: The AVID Way
- Brain Myths
- Brain Week: AVID Tutorials and the Brain
- Break Through the Noise: Commit to Student Success
- Building a Scholarship Buzz
- Building an AVID K–20 College Readiness Community
- But Do Your Students Like Facebook?
- Change is hard, but we can make it fun!
- Cognition, College Readiness, Adolescence: Creating a Brain Healthy Environment
- College AND Career Ready?
- College Board Makes the Right Moves to Improve Advanced Placement® Quality and Equity
- College Tours: Searching For the Perfect Fit
- College and Career Day: It’s Not Just for the AVID Elective
- College and Career Success? Workforce Readiness? Degree Attainment? We Can Do This.
- College, Career, and Citizenship Readiness With AVID and AP: Boise School District
- Commit to Student Success Week: Keep It Going!
- Confronting Stereotypes in the Classroom: Part 1
- Confronting Stereotypes in the Classroom: Part 2
- Congratulations to the 2011 AVID graduates
- Connecting Students to the Real World: The Careers Alive Museum
- Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch: A Remarkable Journey
- Content, Curiosity, and Relationships
- Continue to Invest in AVID? It’s a No-Brainer
- Course Placement: Why Do We Need to Understand the Process?
- Creating a Schoolwide College Ready Culture…Again
- Curious, Persistent, and Willing to Take Risks
- Deep in the Heart of Texas
- Defining Your Path: Roadtrip Nation and AVID
- Demonstration Schools - The AVID Mission Comes Alive
- Developing a Scholar Identity: Let’s See More Boys and Color
- Do Your Students Know How To Ask Questions?
- Don't Let Statistics Mislead You
- Don’t Call Them Dropouts
- Don’t Claim Other People’s Baggage!
- Dreamers, Bridge Builders and a Coach
- Educating from the Bottom Up: The Brain is not Over There in a Bucket
- Educational Intensive Care
- Educational Productivity: Doing the Sweaty Work
- Election Day
- Elections and Education: What difference does it make?
- Emotional Intelligence Skill Set Development (EISSD): Key to Academic Achievement and Student Retention
- Exceeding Expectations
- Expanding the Case for Educating the Whole Child
- Four Questions For... Cindy Zavala, AVID graduate
- Four Questions For... Eddy Diaz, AVID Graduate
- Four Questions For... Gene I. Maeroff, Education Writer and Leader
- Four Questions For: Cynthia Arellano, AVID Alumni Association
- Four Questions For: Dr. David Conley
- Four Questions For: Mary Catherine Swanson
- Freeport High School AVID graduates ready for college, life
- From AVID Student to Teacher - A Thank You to Educators
- From AVID to App
- From the Bottom Up 2.0: Inspiration from Rigor
- Giving Thanks: A Reminder
- Growing AVID Leaders
- Happy National Teacher Appreciation Day!
- Heartbeats
- Help Keep All Students from Becoming a Statistic
- Help Us Win March Madness - Share Your AVID Story!
- Help Your Students Be More Creative (With Constraints)
- Helping English Language Learners: From Idealism to Action
- Hidden Objectives
- Homecoming – Creating a New Tradition
- How Can We Reduce Math Anxiety?
- How Does AVID Rate? Exceptionally for All
- How We Do This All Day Long
- How to Avoid Miscommunication
- I Am The Difference
- I Stopped Teaching Math and Started Teaching Kids...
- I Wasn’t Supposed to be Here
- I am Superman, though I may look a lot more like Clark Kent
- If Not You, Then Who?
- If You Could Walk in My Shoes…
- Implementing AVID: From “Buy-In” to Belief
- In Pursuit of Success: Dream Big!
- In the Classroom: Setting House Rules
- Introducing AVID’s New CEO, Dr. Sandy Husk
- Invisible Curriculum
- Is AVID part of your district’s DNA?
- Is College Really a Waste of Time?
- Is Eighth Grade Too Early for AP®? One AVID Graduate Says “No”
- It Takes an AVID Village
- It’s Not About the Cell Phones
- It’s Not Easy Being the First, But It’s Worth It!
- Jim Nelson: Basics that the best schools get right
- Journeys – A Transformative WICOR Project
- Know Before You Go – Top 5 AVID Summer Institute Pointers
- Leaders Give Us Permission to Be Great
- Leaders Supporting Teachers: The Lehigh Way
- Leadership in Schoolwide AVID
- Let’s Not Abandon Foster Youth in College Readiness Dialogue
- Let’s Talk College Readiness: Upcoming Conference Presentations
- Listening Skills
- Loaded Questions
- Loss of an AVID Friend
- Make the Commitment to Student Success by Taking AVID Schoolwide
- Making Connections Through Shadow Days
- Making Excellence Contagious: A Leader Think Tank
- Making Lemonade
- Maybe Teaching Is Overrated…
- Metacognition: It’s Just Good Coaching
- Mindfulness Meets AVID
- Mindfulness in Education
- Money Isn’t the Only Thing
- Motivating Students: Could Pride Be the Best Incentive?
- My AVID Family
- My AVID Story
- My AVID Success in College
- My American Dream
- My Journey to Medical School
- My Life Begins at Advanced
- My Life in AVID
- My Take on Chinese Mothers - AVID Founder Mary Catherine Swanson
- New Year’s Resolution: Cause Good Trouble
- No Excuse to Fail
- Numbers tell a story of student success
- Opportunities Matter
- Our Call to Action: Postsecondary Achievement in the U.S.
- O’Banion Middle School AVID - Bringing Worlds Together!
- People Like Me
- Pivotal Moments Open the Doors to Opportunity
- Postsecondary AVID: Completing the College Readiness System
- Poverty, Privilege, and Academic “Othering”
- Practice Makes Perfect (But How?)
- Preventing an Elite Program from Becoming Elitist
- Pricing the college dream
- Professional Learning that Helps Educators Meet the Challenge
- Q&A Corner: AVID CEO, Sandy Husk
- Ratchet-Up! Scaffolding Rigor with WICOR
- Reaching Out to Culturally Diverse Students
- Read Your Inner Compass: Another Way to Look at College Readiness
- Reading Complex Texts to Build Skills
- Reflections on my AVID Journey
- Remember 13,000
- Remembering Justin Valdez, AVID Shining Star
- Resilience and Academic Success
- Resilience, the Brain, and Emotion
- Resistance Is Futile
- Response to “No Seriously: No Excuses”
- Responsibility of the Educated
- Retire The Certification Binder - Go Electronic!
- Returning Home
- Rice, Beans, and Mango
- Rigor 2.0
- Rigor for the Teacher
- Rigorous Course Enrollment Proves as Important as Attaining High Test Scores
- Riverside 25th Anniversary: They Said It Couldn’t Be Done
- STEMming the Gap: Helping an Engineer Find His Wings
- SXSWedu 2015: AVID Will Be There!
- SXSWedu, Grad Nation Summit and Washington, D.C.
- Second in the Brain Week series: Developing brains and AVID
- Seeing is believing…
- Sending Students to Barcelona with a map of San Diego
- Show Me, Don’t Tell Me
- Sink or Swim: AVID Students in Advanced Programs
- Sleep's Role in Academic Success
- Special Recognition of AVID Board Member Melendy Lovett
- Standing Out in the Crowd
- Starting Early: Tips for Middle School College Fairs
- Starting with Why
- Striking a Balance Between ‘Pen and Paper’ and 21st Century Skills
- Study Skills in the 21st Century: An Interview with Anne Crossman
- Such a Simple Answer to Such a Difficult Question
- Supporting African American Male Achievement
- Supporting the Urban Effort: The National Center for Urban School Transformation
- Taking the AVID Family to College? Research Supports the Idea!
- Teacher of Year Sean McComb Makes the Case for Optimism
- Teaching: I Knew It Was For Me
- The AVID Investment Pays Off
- The AVID Miracle
- The AVID STEM Science & Math Summer Bridge Programs
- The Atomic Binder
- The Brain and the AVID teacher: the key to it all
- The Challenge Index: One AVID Charter School Shines
- The Food You Eat Affects Your Brain
- The Global Achievement Gap – Looking Forward; Looking Back
- The Meaning of Summer
- The Most Important Year of School Is…
- The Not-So-Secret Formula to Student Success
- The POWER OF ONE is real!
- The Power of Texting
- The Real Common Core: How Loving Your Students Changes Everything
- The Road You Take
- The Three C’s of Learning
- The Times Takes on STEM. What Can Higher Ed Do?
- The Uneven Landscape is a Given
- The Value of Looking Back
- The Visibility Factor
- The Way to Student Success Is an Attitude: Individual Determination
- The “Not So Easy” Choice
- There Is Truly No Price on the Value of Education
- Three Key Processes that lead to Success for ALL Students: Principal examines the key processes that earned national recognition for his campus
- Tips On Changing Middle School Behaviors, Einstein-Style
- Top 10 Blogs of 2015
- Top 5 FAFSA FAQs
- Top 5 Reasons for Educators to Get Social!
- Top Blogs from 2013
- Transitioning to an eBinder
- True Advancement
- Tutors for All
- Unleashed Potential
- Visiting AVID in Australia
- WICOR and David’s Pants
- Waiting for "Superman"...the rest of the story
- We Need to Dump the Factory Model and Get Back to the Farm
- We Saved Each Other
- Webinar: Breaking Down Barriers to Higher Education
- Welcome Back to “Our Kids”
- Welcome Back, Our Heroes
- What AVID Made Out of Me!
- What About Latinas?
- What Can Students Learn from Marshmallows?
- What Did You Learn at Summer Institute?
- What Do You Teach?
- What Does All This Theory Look Like in the Classroom?
- What I Love About Texas
- What’s Up Next?
- When Are We Going to Use This in Real Life?
- Where are they now: Sergio’s college journey
- White House Initiative Honors AVID as a Bright Spot in Hispanic Education
- Why Can’t the Whole Year Be Like the First Day of School?
- Why Do We Keep Doing the Same Thing in the Classroom and Expect Better Results?
- Why Facts Don't Convince People (and what you can do about it)
- Why a Culturally Proficient Framework?
- Why do I have to take notes? The Brain - Note Connection
- You Are Not Alone…
- You Could Be AVID’s Next Blogger!
- You Just Never Know…
- Your Teacher WICOR Summer Homework
- You’re Invited
- Zoe’s Top Five Rules for New AVID Students and Elective Teachers
- “That” Teacher