This electronic newsletter is published every week in Heidelberg by Maryellen Pienta. Send me your news and views regarding student and program success, achievement, public relations, speakers, trips, activities, motivation, family workshops, and classroom management. Few people in America have the opportunity to travel to Cuba, but I am one of the lucky ones. I spent a week there visiting W. T. Sampson High School's AVID program and working with Coordinator Marty Kober and her students and tutor. Sandra Bruce, former AVID coordinator at Ansbach HS and current English teacher at Sampson, assisted with the tutorial training.
Students have Internet access in the room, making it easy to do research on colleges.
The AVID class is gearing up for their college tour to Washington, DC later this month. They did research before and during the visit and followed up with a writing exercise. Weekly reading time and writing exercises for the entire school are built into the schedule. The scheduling committee is looking at adding more rigorous courses next year. AVID will possibly be expanded to include middle-school students.