Caregivers and families,
This year marks the first official implementation year of the AVID program. The AVID framework encompasses essential skills that help students design their own future in the following: critical thinking, collaboration, reading, writing, and relationship building. We truly believe that by instilling confidence in our students, they can navigate challenges and achieve their full potential.
Our mission this year is to inspire students to build individual agency and life skills to create a purposeful, intentional, positive impact on their lives and the communities around them.
Our Sandy Elementary staff encourages, teaches and reinforces academic behaviors such as organization, study skills, communication, and self-advocacy. AVID utilizes teaching strategies that focus on: Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading in every lesson plan. As this is our first year, we will be focusing on developing organization strategies and skills to increase rigor across all content areas. Our AVID scholars develop the academic habits they will need to be successful in middle school, high school, and onward in an age-appropriate and challenging way.
No one can predict the future, but we believe that all students can be prepared to thrive in the world that awaits them.
The strong college-going culture on our AVID Elementary site encourages ALL students to think about their college and career plans. You will notice college pennants and banners around our campus, and teachers speak about their higher level learning experiences. College and careers become common topics and teachers provide the academic foundation students need to be on a path for life-long learning success.
We are so proud to be one of the two elementary schools in Canyons that have joined the AVID community and are so inspired by how it is helping all of our students become successful, life-long learners, and community contributors.
Let’s have a great year!
Ms. Pua, Principal
Ms. Antivilo, Assistant Principal
