AVID has played an important role at Greeley West but what furthers the AVID experience is the tutors. It’s also hard to find a good tutor.

Junior AVID teacher Mr. Ryan Pace started to have some of his students do tutoring this year. “One of the things we struggled with so long is that for years we had AVID tutors but they all came from UNC. The key for the tutors is to keep everyone on task and the group conversation moving,” Pace stated. 

“For a few years we lacked that participation, but Mr.Paulson played a big role in getting it started a few years ago, and not only now do we have tutors to help our freshman and sophomores but we also have our juniors and seniors in leadership roles,” Pace explained.

Freshman Dominic Salazar said, “(The tutors) make sure that making a good tutorial is important and they give good feedback on what I could do better.”

AVID coordinator Joel Suarez gave his take on the AVID tutors as his first year of being the coordinator. “I think it’s a great program. It’s a good opportunity our community gets.  A big attraction (to the students) is getting paid, which is $17 an hour – above minimum wage,” Suarez said. 

“This does not only develop their tutorial skills, but it also helps kids start a job. I think it’s a great learning opportunity for kids. I think it’s a great example for the younger kids to have upperclassmen to look up to,” Suarez said. 

Junior Madison Vella started AVID tutoring last semester and found out whta projects freshman AVID students start out as.  “It brought awareness to what freshman teachers have to go through, it showed me how rough their tutorials are,” Vella stated. 

Vella said it’s important to build relationships as a tutor.  “Freshman and sophomore year, the tutors were stuck up because they were upperclassmen and thought they could boss us around. As an AVID tutor I try not to come across like that but I also try to educate them about tutorial,” Vella said.