AVID Newsletter
Harney County School District 3

AVID Summer Institute 2026! 😎
We took a team of 16 to sunny San Diego for three days of learning, collaborating and enhancing our AVID implementation efforts. What a wonderful time to grow together!
The San Diego team:
McKenzie Hughes, Son Burns, Abby Nonnenmacher, Katie Sorenson, Joshua Weible, Kylee Murphy, Danielle Moss, Robert Medley, Angela Knox, Meagan Williams, Taylor Tibbetts, Sara Burns, Rockelle Baddeley, Jennifer Bertrand, Steph Lardy and Becca Birch
Beth Davis, Bridgette Bauer and Ryan Moss also engaged in AVID Virtual Live this summer!
85% of teachers and admin across the district are AVID-Trained!!
Teachers!!! Check this out! 📣
It's a new resource like Teachers Pay Teachers...but FREE and powered by awesome AVID educators like you!!
AVID in Action 🎬
Henry L. Slater Elementary
👏 Henry L. Slater is recognized as an AVID-Certified School! 🎉
Mission: Empower all students through high expectations to embrace learning and achieve personal success.
Vision: Embraced – Educated - Empowered
Check back next month for photos of the many great things happening at Slater!
Hines Middle School
Mission: Our mission is to provide staff and students with a Safe, Respectful, Responsible, and Professional Environment to learn.
Vision: Hines Middle School empowers students to grow into Honest, Mature, Scholarly leaders.
Check back next month for photos of the many great things happening at HMS!
Burns High School
👏 BHS is recognized as an AVID Schoolwide Site of Distinction with Highly Certified AVID Electives! 🎉
Mission: Empowering students to learn, grow, and lead.
Vision: To foster a community of learners where curiosity, critical thinking, and academic excellence equip students for success through an AVID framework.
Check back next month for photos of the many great things happening at BHS!
I'm New...What is AVID? 🙋
AVID stands for: Advancement Via Individual Determination.
It is a program that transforms a school's culture, instruction, systems and leadership and closes opportunity gaps for ALL students.
AVID provides teachers with consistent tools and best practices to be able to provide students with opportunities and skills necessary to become career and college ready while prioritizing relationships so everyone can achieve their full potential.
Each school integrates AVID's philosophy and strategies across all grade levels, in every classroom, for every student. At the middle and high school levels, there are also AVID Elective courses offered to provide even more focused instruction on key academic and organizational skills.
At HCSD#3, we believe that every student can succeed through determination, opportunity, and personalized support throughout their educational journey!
WE ARE READY TO MAKE THIS SCHOOL YEAR THE BEST ONE YET!
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Links & Resources 🌐
EIT
The EIT (Elementary Implementation Tool) is a tool to help Slater collect evidence, gauge AVID progress and set goals for continual improvement schoolwide.
Click on the photo above to understand each elementary indicator.
Henry L. Slater is recognized as an AVID-Certified School! 🥳
SIT
The SIT (Secondary Implementation Tool) is a tool to help Hines Middle and Burns High collect evidence, gauge AVID progress and set goals for continual improvement schoolwide and with the AVID Elective.
Click on the photo above to understand each secondary indicator.
Burns High School is recognized as an AVID Schoolwide Site of Distinction with Highly Certified Electives! 🥳
AVID.org
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