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AVID presenters tell Roseville school board the program reaches nearly 3,900 students and faces wait-list pressures
Summary
District staff and AVID alumni told the Roseville Area Schools board April 28 that AVID schoolwide practices and elective sections now touch an estimated 3,896 students, while application and capacity limits create wait lists and drive recent recruitment changes.
Maureen Araya, AVID district director, told the Roseville Area Schools board on April 28 that AVID schoolwide practices and elective classes now “impact 3,896 students” across the district and that the program combines schoolwide instructional practices with a selective AVID elective at the secondary level.
The presentation, led by Araya and Associate Superintendent De’Lion Smith and accompanied by AVID alumni and current students, laid out AVID’s working definition of college and career readiness and described the program’s instructional framework—WICR: writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization and reading. Araya said the district pairs schoolwide strategies with an elective designed for roughly 10% of a school’s population to provide more intensive support and rigor.
Student presenters described the practices they use in class.…
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