Student Transitions - Wa

Student TransitionsLindsey Salinas

Beginning of Junior Year End of Junior Year

Student Update • I’m officially a Senior

• Grade Point Average

• Summer School

• Job

• Elections

• Volleyball

(Advancement Via Individual Determination)AVID

AVID trains educators to use proven practices in order to prepare students for success even those that are traditionally underrepresented.

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Whether it’s in high school, college or career. Those practices may be note taking skills, tutorials, practicing SAT/PSAT, taking upper level classes like AP, plus more.

AVID advisors hold students accountable to the highest standards, provide academic and social support, and they rise to the challenge.

AVID:

• Teaches skills and behaviors for academic success• Provides intensive support with tutorials and strong

student/teacher relationships• Creates a positive peer group for students• Develops a sense of hope for personal achievement gained

through hard work and determination

• The AVID Elective is the core of AVID Secondary. It targets students in the academic middle– B, C, and even D students

• AVID places these students on the college track, requiring them to enroll in the most rigorous courses that are appropriate for them

“AVID is closing the achievement gap with equitable persistence among diverse groups of college students”

Advisory

What is Advisory?Many names: Advisory, Teacher Advisory (TA) Teacher Advisory Group (TAG), Morning Meeting, Call Back, Flex Time, Academic Success Block and Learning Teams.

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Essentially advisory gives each student a “point person” and the opportunity to get to know 10-14 students very well over a 4-year period.

What happens in advisory?

• WOIS (Washington OccupationalInformation Service)

• Senior Projects

• Anti-bullying

• Team Building

• Announcements/Discussion

• Brain Storming for Fundraising

Federally Funded College Preparatory Programs

• Examples:

• TRIO programs

• GEAR UP (Gaining Early Awareness andReadiness for Undergraduate Programs)

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educational opportunity outreach programs, including Upward Bound and Talent Search, designed to motivate, support, and prepare students from disadvantaged backgrounds for college. a discretionary grant program of the U.S. Department of Education that provides states with funding to create local partnerships serving cohorts of students beginning no later than grade 7 and extending through high school.

Upward Bound• Tutoring

• College Vocabulary Words

• SAT

• ACT

• College Visits

• College Exposure

Barriers

Rural Schools• Physical location of the school

• College visits

• Negativity

• Career visits

• Short period of time with college/career advisors

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CTE classes help you connect what you're learning to the real world. It can help you gain key skills to help you get a job after you graduate. It's also a great way to explore career options and meet the people who work in them. You might be able to earn college credit in high school

Time• Rural & Urban

• Required Classes

• State Testing

• College & Career

• Culture & Climate

• Respect & Skills

CTE Classes • Wood Shop

• JROTC

• Tech (ITE Maintenance Support)

• Employment and Computer Skills

Major Personal Experience Going from everyday high school classes to college running start classes.

• Time

• Motivation

• Moral Support

• Walking in visionless

What happens the day after you graduate from high school at most schools?

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Students lose contact with the staff at the school and are left to either figure it out on their own, or give up.

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