10-11+AVID+Report

Updated 4/16/2010
 * __ Single Plan for Student Achievement Planning Report for 2010-2011 __**

Department, Team or Program: **AVID** Name of person submitting the report: **Elizabeth Fagaly**

Our three AVID site goals are listed below. 1. We want 100% of AVID seniors to apply to at least one 4-year college/university and at least 75% to be accepted into at least one 4-year college/university. Also, we want 100% of AVID seniors to compile a portfolio of their college applications. 2. We want 100% of AVID seniors to complete at least one AP course and take the corresponding exam or complete a dual credit college course by the end of June 2010. We want the number of students in the school taking AP exams to increase from the previous year. 3. We want 100% of the graduating AVID seniors class of 2010 to participate in the ACT and/or SAT in a formal setting and 100% of other AVID students to participate in appropriate college testing at each grade level. We met the first part of site goal #1 as 100% of AVID seniors applied to at least one 4-year college/university. We do not know if at least 75% were accepted because the acceptance letters do not start arriving until around April 2010. We met the second part of site goal #1 as 100% of AVID seniors compiled a portfolio of their college applications. We met the first part of site goal #2 as 100% of AVID seniors have taken or are currently enrolled in at least one AP course. We do not know if 100% of AVID seniors have taken an AP exam because the AP exams are not until May 2010. We do not know if we met the second part of site goal #2 (referring to all ECVHS students) because the AP exams are not until May 2010. We met the first part of site goal #3 as 100% of graduating seniors class of 2010 have participated in the ACT and/or SAT in a paid, formal sitting. We do not know if we met the second part of site goal #3 because the current juniors still have until the end of the year to take the ACT and/or SAT. All 10th graders in the entire school already took the PSAT in October and all AVID 9th graders are taking the EXPLORE the week of Feb. 1-5, 2010.
 * 1. What were your successes in meeting your team goals and supporting the Site Goals?**
 * AVID Site Plan Goals for 2009-2010: **
 * Successes: **

Our team goals directly support El Cajon Valley High School’s Goals #4 and #5. ECVHS Goal #4 states that “The percentage of students who graduate each year…will increase.” In 2008-2009, 100% of AVID seniors graduated. Our second team goal directly supports ECVHS Goal #5, which states, “The percentage of students in each graduating class who complete an AP course will increase each year and the number of AP exams taken and passed will increase each year.”


 * 2. What were your challenges in meeting your team goals and supporting the Site Goals?**

One challenge in meeting our goals relates to the size of our program. We are proud to be the largest AVID program in the district, with fifteen sections, but our size also makes it difficult to keep track of all students’ progress. It is difficult for AVID teachers to keep track of all students in terms of who has already taken an AP class, who has already signed up for the AP exam, who has already taken the ACT or SAT, and who has already submitted their college applications. Another challenge is that part of our success lies with the students actually following through. For example, an AVID teacher can help a student sign up for the ACT/SAT in the computer lab and provide the test fee waiver, but it is up to the student to actually show up on the day of the test and take it. A final challenge was finding funding to pay for items such as AP exams, college applications, and college entrance examination fees. We needed a large amount of money to administer the EXPLORE test to all 9th grade AVID students.
 * Challenges: **


 * 3. What are your department/team/program needs for supporting student learning for next year in these areas?**

A. We need support from administration to continue to offer a variety of AP classes for all students to take. We also need help from administration with fee waivers for students to take the AP tests. B. We need funding to administer the EXPLORE test to all 9th grade students for the 2010-2011 school year. We estimate the cost to be about $1000,00. (140 x $6.84/student) C. We need funding for 2010-2011 Professional Development. These trainings include: 1) Time to meet as a team during the summer to continue our work as a PLC with curriculum planning and alignment. 2) At least four pull-out days during the next school year (one per quarter), with funding to pay for subs during those days. 3) AVID Summer Institute registration fees and curriculum writing time for eight AVID elective teachers and as many other non-AVID elective teachers as possible D. Depending on the budget cut from the district, we may need money to help pay for AVID tutors for next school year. For the 2009-2010 school year, we have ten AVID tutors and for 2010-2011, we would like to at least maintain or possibly expand our tutor support. E. To increase literacy and vocabulary awareness, we would like to purchase word wall pocket charts, and card stock sentence strip paper, for use in pocket charts. F. To increase the use of collaborative group work, we would like to purchase easel white boards for use during AVID tutorial. G. We would like to purchase various instructional materials such as test prep books.