Justin F. Kimball High School students honored for AVID participation success and college scholarships

Friday, May 10, 2013

Justin F. Kimball High School students honored for AVID participation success and college scholarships

AVID Honorees

This was another rewarding year for Kimball High School students enrolled in AVID --Advancement Via Individual Determination. AVID is a college readiness system for elementary - higher education. It is designed to increase school-wide learning and performance.

More than a program, the academic elective AVID is a philosophy:
Hold students accountable to the highest standards, provide academic and social support, and students will rise to the challenge.

College scholarships and honor tassels were presented to AVID seniors. All students received special recognitions and awards, including several peer-selected honors.

2012-2013 AVID Site Team

Photographer Darren Lucas inspired students with personal stories using the program theme, Dedication, Destination and Determination.

Tamika Stevenson, AVID Coordinator/Elective teacher and her 2012-2013 AVID Site Team planned and implemented this quality dinner program, held at Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship Banquet Hall.

Parents, relatives and students experienced an evening of excitement and elegance while learning more about AVID--a Decade of College Dreams.

Earl Jones is principal of Kimball High school, and Kimball Knights are AVID fans.

A Teacher's Creed

"In the classroom on the first day of a new school year, I am eager to meet my students. I have rehearsed my greeting and first day’s remarks, but no matter how many years I’ve prepared for this procedure, it’s always new. My heart pumps a bit harder, faster; I feel adrenaline like an athlete, or like an actor, or maybe like a novice public speaker. It’s a marvelous feeling, this first day, because I know that something special is going to happen, and I know it because I’ve experienced it before and I know that I will experience it every time I meet a new class throughout my venerable career. And then they’re seated before me and I smile at this special feeling. This is an assembly of students, yes. But there’s so much more, because each of these young persons is more than just a student entrusted to me. Each of these students has a story to tell, a lifetime, however brief, of experiences, a history in volumes whose richness and depth I can barely begin to fathom. And so as I absorb the first glimpse of these young charges, I must appreciate the extent of my responsibility, of the privilege I’ve accepted in presenting these young souls my special knowledge. In offering them my talent and passion, I am adding an enormous array of new bright stars to the vast firmament of their minds, stars that will never have time to fade in their lifetimes. I will be part of their story. And I know that each of them will always be part of mine. And that’s a good feeling, a feeling that is perpetually renewed, revisited, and rewritten in A Teacher’s Creed."

Carla Ranger - Dallas ISD Education Blog

Friday, May 10, 2013

Justin F. Kimball High School students honored for AVID participation success and college scholarships

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