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AVID film to feature McNary
By DEREK WILEY
Of the Keizertimes
McNary won’t get its shot
to become an AVID demon-
stration school until 2020.
But educators and students
from all over the country will
see AVID techniques at work
at the Keizer high school
much sooner.
Jennifer Nagle, staff devel-
oper and writer of AVID’s new
curriculum on focused note-
taking, was at McNary with
two cameramen on Dec. 12-
15 to interview students and
teachers and fi lm their work in
the classroom.
“They spoke to why it mat-
ters and they spoke to one of
the things they’ve learned by
the time they’re a junior or se-
nior is that you have to learn
how to make note-taking your
own,” Nagle said. “Learn what
works for you and you have to
think about how am I going to
use these notes before you start
taking them.”
One student said focused
note-taking made him feel like
he had superpowers and when
he took really good notes in
his hard AP or math classes, he
felt like he could do anything.
Making note-taking your
own is one of the subjects of
a new AVID book Nagle has
been working on for two and
half years. Through interviews,
Nagle discovered that students
wanted more fl exibility in
their note-taking.
“At the time AVID was
very much focused on Cornell
Notes and that being the only
real way that we were teach-
ing students to take notes,”
she said. “Cornell Notes are a
wonderful way to take notes
but there’s other ways. You can
take notes in two column or
three column or if you’re a su-
per visual person, sketch notes
or different diagrams or mind
maps. There’s lot of ways to
take notes.”
Nagle came to McNary
in October for a professional
learning session around the
revised note-taking and found
teachers wanted to dig deeper
and become early adopters of
the new process.
“This work lined up with
what they were already work-
ing towards and their own ini-
tiative of taking AVID school-
wide and having note-taking
really being a focus already on
the campus,” Nagle said. “It’s
not like I was asking them to
throw out something they
were doing and try something
different. They were just ready
to run.”
Heidi Tavares, AVID coor-
dinator at McNary, said teach-
ers welcomed the fl exibility.
“We had some staff with
Cornell Notes (saying) that it
was hard for them to do that
and they kept arguing, right-
fully so, that there’s other for-
mats that we can use but AVID
was so Cornell Notes so that’s
what we did,” Tavares said.
“It was almost this huge
sigh of relief from the staff
when Jenn came up and said
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
ABOVE: Jennifer Nagle, of AVID, inierviews McNary siudeni
Irik Ambos Wiiiner. BELOW: AVID cameramen fi lm Mandy El-
der’s eleciive class on Thursday, Dec. 14.
KEIZERTIMES/Derek Wiley
McNary siudenis Jon Chavarria and Briiiney Morriss gei insiruciion from ieacher Mandy Elder
while being fi lmed for an AVID video io be released ihis spring.
here are all the options and the
fl exibility.”
For the fi lm, Nagle inter-
viewed nine AVID students,
Keith Cardoza, Arik Dela, Deja
Jamie, Irik Ambos Wittner,
Gina Munguia-Martinez, Am-
ner Arellano, Ramon Garcia,
Jena Burrus and Boston Smith,
over two days at McNary.
“I wanted students talking
about note-taking and explain-
ing the process to students as
opposed to it being educators
talking to students,” Nagle said.
“They’re getting to talk about
the different phases of note-
taking, their tips and tricks, and
then we’ll put that all together
into a video montage with the
footage of what it looks like in
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be released in the spring. The
video will be rolled out in the
summer and be used in profes-
sional development training
for 50,000 teachers in every
AVID school in the country.
“We were so excited when
Jenn came and we were able to
share the chapter on focused
notes with the entire staff,”
Tavares said. “We’re the fi rst
ones to see this. We’re the fi rst
school to get to pilot this.”
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“There was just enough
to make it feel very Pacifi c
Northwest,” Nagle said.
Although Dec. 14 was ugly
sweater day, there weren’t any
in Elder’s class as most of the
students changed into their
McNary blue “bold enough”
AVID t-shirts.
Nagle is going to an AVID
middle school in San Diego
in February to fi nish the fi lm-
ing. Her book is scheduled to
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classrooms as they’re talking.”
Nagle fi lmed in four class-
rooms: Jordan Keeker’s Algebra
II, Dylan Bartholomew’s Phys-
ical Science, Mandy Elder’s
AVID elective and David Hol-
comb’s AP Human Geography.
Instead of the normal class
time, each period lasted two
hours to allow for fi lming.
While all of the questions and
answers came from the teach-
ers and students, some had to
be repeated to allow for the
cameramen to move. Some
students had a case of the gig-
gles.
“There was a question in a
science class, we had him ask it
four times,” Tavares said.
Wanting the video to stay
fresh, the students also had to
think about what they were
wearing. Dec. 12-15 just hap-
pened to be spirit week at the
school. Dec. 13 was fl annel
shirt day.
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