The first elective class had 32 students. AVID now serves more than 2 million students in more than 7, schools in 47 US states and 16 countries.
AVID, which stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination,prepares low-income or struggling students for two- and four-yearcolleges. Is AVID for every student?
AVID is only for students who want to be in the program and will work harder to be stronger students. All 30 were the first in their families to attend college. AVID has also expanded to include the fourth through twelfth grades. Swanson retired as the executive director of AVID in with several honors to her credit. Swanson was one of three recipients of the Harold W. McGraw, Jr. Prize in Education, and she is the only public school teacher ever to have won the Pioneering Achievement in Education Award from the Charles A.
Dana Foundation. Swanson continues to bring her energy and vision—backed by strong data—to challenge the education system. Successfully guiding students to college from high school, AVID is reaching to a new level: post-secondary programs and community colleges. Swanson says although the challenges in education are huge, she still loves to find ways to influence and change.
Teaching is the most amazing career I could have imagined. Spotlight March 10, They need to know. Television and film both must be edited to create a final program. Film editing always involved manually cutting and pasting strips of film, a simple and fast technique. But even by the late s, video editing was severely limited because changes had to be done in sequence — in a linear fashion — making edits difficult.
The result was the ability to make instantaneous changes at any time, anywhere in the program, setting a new standard. Warner founded Avid Technology, Inc. Warner saw that the company needed to develop its own video compression and decompression. The industry was surprised when the first product ran at 30 frames-per-second, showing editors every frame of their original material.
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