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The AVID Effect isn't just a model of how exceptional leadership can transform American education, it is a model for how we all can take life's most unpredictable curve balls and turn it into success.
About the author
Dr. Sandy Husk joined AVID Center as the chief executive officer in January 2014, bringing more than 19 years of experience implementing AVID in the three districts where she has served as superintendent, most recently in Salem-Keizer, Oregon, the second largest district in that state. As CEO, Sandy is responsible for implementing AVID’s strategic imperatives, which include furthering its mission of closing the achievement gap and preparing all students for college and careers, accelerating the scalability of AVID as a schoolwide and districtwide system, developing student-centric technologies to enhance and sustain the student experience in AVID, and determining how AVID can best serve urban districts. Sandy earned her Ph.D. in administration, curriculum and supervision from the University of Colorado, Denver; her M.A. in guidance and counseling from the University of Colorado, Boulder; and her B.S. in elementary education from the University of Georgia, Athens. Sandy currently resides in San Diego, California.
Summary
What does it look like to create a new future for students that they didn't know was possible?
How do you inspire teachers who are burned out by an abundance of antiquated professional development and school improvement plans that just don't work?How do you create a school environment that both students and teachers are excited to show up for every day?And, how in the world do you keep that enthusiasm for educating students in the middle of a once-in-a-lifetime global pandemic?In The AVID Effect, AVID CEO and seasoned educator Sandy Husk, Ph.D., answers all of these questions and takes us through AVID’s journey of transforming their blockbuster Summer Institute within 90 days to a virtual experience that impacted more than 125,000 educators, shepherding the organization’s commitment to provide AVID’s services, community, and support to their constituents throughout the pandemic, and how she managed and inspired her hardworking team to continue their forty-year legacy of providing new futures for more than two million students throughout the country.
The AVID Effect isn't just a model of how exceptional leadership can transform American education, it is a model for how we all can take life's most unpredictable curveballs and turn it into success.
