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Sellers Middle School teacher and AVID coordinator Marie Walker-Peterson has continued to help students succeed for 23 years through the AVID program.  Walker-Peterson has been a GISD student from kindergarten to high school where she was the salutatorian in 1987. She went to college for international relations but decided her passion was working with children. When she returned to Garland to take care of her mother, she started tutoring local children.  Former principal Janice Howard initiated the AVID tutoring program in 2003 after reading a newspaper article over the program and want...

More teachers more consistently. >> i think right now the climate is not a very good one for teachers who want to be autonomous who want to be creative, who want to have a big influence on kids' lives. i know at my school because it's a demonstration school we work really hard to develop methods and then disseminate them to teachers around the country. so our older kids read at least 40 books a year. they write 20 or 30 pieces of publishable writing. they choose what they're going to write and read. they have all this time and practice. and those aren't options that are available under the sta...