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McNary bonds at AVID Summer Institute
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary principal Erik
Jespersen, athletic director
Scott Gragg and 17 teachers
spent July 25-27 at the AVID
Summer Institute in Denver
preparing for the 2017-18
school year.
“It was just a great op-
portunity for more of our
staff members to understand
AVID strategies and be able
to apply them for their in-
structional practices for next
year,” Jespersen said.
McNary has attended the
summer institute for three
years in a row. Sixty-six staff
members have been trained
in AVID with the goal of ul-
timately getting to 100 per-
cent.
“In addition to teach-
ers that actually teach the
AVID elective, we want all of
our staff to be familiar with
AVID and the instructional
strategies, everything from
how to take notes to be or-
ganized,” Jespersen said. “It’s
just a package of good in-
structional strategies and we
want all of our staff to have
that experience.”
McNary, which had 200
students in eight AVID elec-
tives—three for freshmen,
two for sophomores and
juniors, and one section for
seniors, last year, hopes to be-
come an AVID demonstra-
tion school by 2020.
A partnership with NIKE
helped fund the trip to Den-
ver.
“They helped pay for a
good chunk of that,” Jespers-
en said. “We’re thankful for
NIKE’s ongoing contribu-
tions to the development of
our staff.”
Each staff member was
put in a strand based on the
subject they teach and their
experience with AVID.
David Holcomb went to
the institute last summer as
a social studies teacher. This
year, he’s teaching a freshmen
AVID elective.
The biggest thing he got
out of the conference was
collaborative study groups, or
as AVID calls them, tutorials.
“That method gets a
group of six to seven kids
together and just helps them
work through it and when
you teach something as a
student that’s when it sticks
with you so it helps a student
become a master of it but
is also helps a student that’s
kind of struggling with it,”
Holcomb said.
Andrea James, who teach-
es English at McNary, at-
tended the summer institute
for the fi rst time.
“I loved it. It felt like a
summer camp,” James said. “I
think the best part was just
getting to be with out team
in a different environment
and get us away from here
and I think we were able to
think more creatively and
just get to know each other
better and work off of each
other’s strengths.”
The McNary staff was also
able to plan out the school
year without the distractions
of grading papers or other
day-to-day responsibilities.
“It’s an opportunity for my
staff members to essentially
sit down and really envision,
plan for the following year,”
Jespersen said. “And because
we’ve been able to do this
for three consecutive years,
our staff knows the direction
we’re going and there’s a tre-
mendous amount of camara-
derie that our staff feel and I
think part of it we’ve had an
opportunity to sit, think and
plan this and actually execute
it when school starts.”
Submitted
McNary principal Erik Jespersen, athletic director Scott Gragg and 17 teachers attended the
AVID Summer Institute in Denver July 25-27.
Chemeketa, Capitol celebrate eclipse
If you are willing to brave
traffi c next weekend – and
are looking for some eclipse-
related fun – here are some of
the things happening around
the area in the run-up to and
during the eclipse.
Thursday, Aug. 17
• Chemeketa Community
College is showing Eclipse:
The Sun Revealed in its
Building 7 Auditorium. The
event will feature a guest
lecture by a Jet Propulsion
Center scientist. Cost is $5,
children under 12 are free.
No debit or credit cards.
Saturday, Aug. 19
• The Salem Philharmonia
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Capitol State Park beginning
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more being led by conductor
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Sunday, Aug. 20,
• OMSI educator Jim Todd
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a.m. in the Capitol. Find out how
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before 9 a.m, while supplies last.
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thermal “Total Eclipse of the
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totality for this eclipse.
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