Arlington School & Family Magazine May/June 2016 | Page 11

Bowie

High School
After undergoing a rigorous
validation process, Bowie High
School was recently named an
AVID Demonstration School,
becoming one of 30 schools in
Texas and 150 nationwide to
earn this distinction.
AVID – or Advancement Via
Individual Determination
– helps students become
successful in high school
and prepared for college.
AVID considers National
Demonstration Schools as
exemplary models of the AVID
College Readiness System.
Bowie will now become a
teaching and learning campus
for other schools that want to
implement AVID schoolwide.

made care packages for deployed troops.

Bowie staff and students helped to celebrate the
successful completion of the National Demonstration Friday was set aside for a big pep rally to promote
spring sports like baseball and track, to wish success
School process at a pep rally that capped off the
on the upcoming STAAR exams, to celebrate
annual Vols Spirit Week.
AVID, and to encourage participation in the annual
community-service event.
During Vols Spirit Week, each day had a different
theme and activity, and students completed tasks
leading up to Bowie Gives Back day, an annual
community-service event. One day students cleaned
up the school courtyard and wrote letters for a time
capsule, another day they spiffed up hallways,
parking lots and fields, and yet another day they

Bowie will be required to be revalidated every few
years to ensure the school maintains its high level of
quality in AVID strategies.

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