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AVID

AVID stands for Advancement Via Individual Determination and seeks to identify college-eligible students in grades 7-12 to prepare them for four-year college entry.
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CTE

Career and Technical Education is about doing, creating and innovating. Students in our programs take what they learn and APPLY it to something tangible, like building robots or extracting DNA. Every program is hands on, and every program gives students the foundational skills to move forward in a career pathway.
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Service Learning

Junior high students in 7th and 8th grade have the opportunity to be involved in a variety of curriculum based and extracurricular service learning. The interests and personalities of the schools, teachers and students determine the projects. The five below are pretty common.
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STEM

Students at Mesa Public Schools engage in STEM learning on a continuum that is rooted in the use of design thinking, science and engineering practices, computational thinking, and technology skills/ application.
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Spotlight

Tony Elmer, Principal

Tony Elmer, Principal

Megan Scott, Social Studies Teacher

Megan Scott, Social Studies Teacher

Raquel Ramos, Performing Arts

Raquel Ramos, Performing Arts Teacher