Academic committee approves sending AVID course proposals for Hilton Head schools to full board

The Beaufort County Board of Education Academic Committee voted to send proposals for AVID courses at Hilton Head Island Middle School (grades 6–8) and Hilton Head Island High School (grade 9) to the full board for action on June 10, 2025. "I move that the academic committee send the following local board approved courses...to the full board for approval, 06/10/2025," a committee member said during the meeting.

Staff described the AVID courses as electives designed to provide students with writing, inquiry and study strategies to prepare for higher-level coursework. The staff member who presented the item said the curriculum materials include syllabi for grade 6, 7 and 8 and a 9th-grade syllabus for the high school. The presenter named Andrea Vormin as the planned middle-school instructor and Kristen Britt as the proposed high-school teacher.

The motion was seconded and the committee approved it by voice vote; the exact tally was not specified in the transcript. The presenter said the district will use MSAP 2 (referred to in the meeting as the Changemaker grant) to offset costs associated with starting and staffing the courses and that teacher support will be provided through grant funds.

Committee members remarked on AVID’s prior success at Beaufort and Buford Middle Schools and on training plans for principals and teachers. The committee did not take final action on the courses; the referral forwards the proposals to the full board for formal approval on the date specified.