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[Music] Hello, Tucson Unified community. I'm&nbsp;
your proud superintendent, Dr. Gabriel Trujillo,&nbsp;&nbsp;

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and I am so excited. This week, I&nbsp;
am visiting Valencia Middle School,&nbsp;&nbsp;

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home of the Jags. Let's take a look. Morning.&nbsp;
How you doing? How are you? I'm good,&nbsp;&nbsp;

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sir. Doing all right. Hi. Good morning. How&nbsp;
are you? Good. How are you? Doing very well.

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We are trying some abstract note reading. And&nbsp;
you know AVID's been a big focus for you here&nbsp;&nbsp;

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in your first year. So what are the plans to&nbsp;
kind of ramp AVID up and get it a little bit&nbsp;&nbsp;

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more embedded schoolwide? So, we added on an&nbsp;
extra AVID teacher to make that a combined now&nbsp;&nbsp;

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of three AVID classes that we can get going.&nbsp;
And then we're working on making sure that&nbsp;&nbsp;

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they're all certified. And then just having our&nbsp;
teachers understand, you know, how AVID is is&nbsp;&nbsp;

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utilized inside their classrooms. And then so one&nbsp;
focus that all the teachers have agreed on is that&nbsp;&nbsp;

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this year at the beginning of all the quarters,&nbsp;
they're going to say, you know, for example, math,&nbsp;&nbsp;

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there's going to be an essential question.&nbsp;
So tell me everything you know about&nbsp;&nbsp;

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factors with in real life. And so they&nbsp;
write down all their stuff. Then at the&nbsp;&nbsp;

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end of the quarter they ask that same&nbsp;
question. They do a comparison analysis.

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And then so it's just what is the growth that&nbsp;
they've seen throughout that quarter and the&nbsp;&nbsp;

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students can make that comparison and say&nbsp;
yeah they give that same reaction of oh wow,&nbsp;&nbsp;

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look at all the stuff that I've actually learned&nbsp;
how different my answers are. And so that is one&nbsp;&nbsp;

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big advocate strategy where we talk about those&nbsp;
essential questions and we're always following&nbsp;&nbsp;

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up with it and it keeps the teachers focused.&nbsp;
It keeps the students focused throughout the&nbsp;&nbsp;

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entire quarter. And with AVID, it's less is more,&nbsp;
right? You pick one strategy, two strategies to&nbsp;&nbsp;

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go schoolwide. Amazing. Great example of&nbsp;
what AVID can do for middle school kids.

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Listen, if you're a middle school parent and&nbsp;
you're looking for middle school options,&nbsp;&nbsp;

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this school has it all. Folklorico, mariachi&nbsp;
band. It's got AVID schoolwide and they have&nbsp;&nbsp;

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an amazing 21st century program that features&nbsp;
a cooking class. If you haven't been down to&nbsp;&nbsp;

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Valencia Middle School to check out all&nbsp;
they have to offer, you're missing out.