AVID Newsletter
August 2022
Welcome to AVID!
Hello Chandler AVID Community!
My name is Heather Dyke and I have the honor of serving as the AVID Site Coordinator at Chandler High School. One of my goals in this position is to increase awareness about the amazing learning activities and opportunities that are happening in AVID.
We have a very strong and supportive group of teachers, counselors, and administrators on our campus that believe in the mission of AVID and understand that we can use the research based, proven strategies to help our students have the supports and opportunities they need to not only reach the next level after high school, but to succeed and thrive.
If one of our AVID students has an achievement that you would like me to feature in a future newsletter, please send me an e-mail. I would love to hear about it!
Thank you for your continued support of our Chandler High School AVID program. I look forward to sharing with you some of the great things happening in our AVID classrooms and with our AVID students throughout this school year.
Sincerely,
Heather Dyke
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AVID Club
AVID Club Meeting
Monday, Aug 22, 2022, 02:30 PM
Chandler High School, North Arizona Avenue, Chandler, AZ, USA
Congratulations to our new AVID Club Officers!!!
Vice - President - Nancy Esquivel
Secretary - Yuridia Ortiz Mendez
Treasurer - Isabella Guzman
Social Media Chair - Tysha Wrightman
AVID WICOR Strategies for CHS Teachers
1) Focused Note Taking (Writing)
HAVING STUDENTS TAKE NOTES IS ONLY THE FIRST STEP!!!
AVID’s focused note-taking process has five phases. It is important to note that while applying learning is the last phase of the process, it is essential that it inform the first phase, as the note-taking format should be shaped by the note-taking purpose. When teaching the focused note-taking process, educators need to determine how students will use their notes and set up the format appropriately. It is crucial for educators to model and invite students to engage in this thought process so that note-taking becomes a powerful and portable learning tool students can carry with them throughout their educational experience.
1. Taking notes: Create the notes. Select a note-taking format, set up the note page, record the Essential Question, and take notes based on an information source (lecture, book, website, article, book, etc.), selecting, paraphrasing, and arranging information in a way that meets your note-taking objective.
2. Processing notes: Think about the notes. Revise notes–by underlining, highlighting, circling, chunking, questioning, adding, deleting–to identify, select, sort, organize, and classify main ideas and details. Evaluate the relative importance of information and ideas in the notes.
3. Connecting thinking: Think beyond the notes. Analyze the notes using inquiry to make connections and deepen content knowledge by asking questions and adding your own thinking to create greater understanding, identify gaps or points of confusion, and connect your new learning to what you already know.
4. Summarizing and reflecting on learning: Think about the notes as a whole. Pull together the most important aspects of your notes and your thinking about them to craft a summary that captures the meaning and importance of the content and reflects on how the learning helps you meet the note-taking objective.
5. Applying learning: Use the notes. Save and revisit your notes as a resource or learning tool to help you apply or demonstrate what you have learned.
Please visit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eESojTn5oH8 for a GREAT video that explains the 5 steps of Focused Note Taking and shows a teacher using it with her students.
2) Digital Agendas (Organization)
This year, our AVID classes have transitioned from using a paper agenda to filling in a digital agenda to allow students to not only remember the homework that they have to do, but also break it up into more manageable chunks and create smaller tasks to make what might otherwise be an overwhelming activity easier to do. This is part of our "warm-up" or "bell work" each day, so it enforces the habit of students having a charged laptop ready to use at the beginning of each class period.
I also created a space for my students to write a weekly goal every Monday and reflect on their weekly goal each Friday.
Click on the link below to view the Quarter 1 AVID Digital Agenda I created for my students and posted in their Google Classroom. Feel free to copy, make changes, and use it however it may help you in your classrooms!
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1PiDjC19Po_VnmtKA7jK4HGuwu5UPcJtirc9qjvvu4Rc/edit?usp=sharing
AVID Freshmen
AVID Sophomores
AVID Juniors
AVID Seniors
"Field trip" to the Chandler College and Career Center
AVID Site Coordinator and Elective Teacher
Email: dyke.heather@cusd80.com
Website: https://www.cusd80.com/Domain/980
Location: 350 N Arizona Ave, Chandler, AZ, USA
Phone: 480-812-7828
Twitter: @AvidChandler