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Three Alexandria City Public Schools (ACPS) educators have been selected as Advancement Via Individual Determination (AVID) national staff developers. Jodie Peters, Deedra Robinson and Lauren Vitello will be among 600 educator-trainers selected to deliver two- and three-day professional learning sessions to educators from 47 states this summer.
Peters has been the AVID district director/coordinator in ACPS for the past 12 years, and also had previously served as a national staff developer for AVID Center; she helped develop the summer learning curriculum for other AVID district directors. Robinson is the new AVID elective teacher at Jefferson-Houston PreK-8 IB School. She represents ACPS as a staff developer and will continue to lead as a trainer for the Science Community of Practice, an accomplishment she has held for over 25 years, as one of the first trained teachers in this area.
As a newly-selected staff developer, Vitello, a former science teacher and now fourth-year AVID elective teacher at Francis C. Hammond Middle School, will lead training for the AVID Elective Teacher Community of Practice. In that role, she will help to on-board new AVID elective teachers with the AVID mission and curriculum expectations taught in grades 6-12.
More than 700 ACPS students are slated to enroll in the AVID elective next year, a multi-year course that works to change the college and career trajectory for underserved/under-enrolled students. Learn more about AVID in ACPS on the division website.