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This AVID Career Clusters lesson and digital activity has everything you need to teach the different career clusters and allow students to apply their learning! Students can take focused notes over the career cluster teach slides and then they will play a game as they decide which career cluster they prefer through "This or That!"

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Directions:

• After students learn the 16 career clusters provided in the slides, allow them to debate as they process and think about their futures in a specific career cluster with the this or that game!
• Students will either hold a thumb or 2 fingers to show which career cluster they prefer. OR make it interactive and allow students to choose a side of the room and turn it into a debate!

What do you get?

✏️16 career cluster pictures and question slides

✏️16 career cluster teach slides

✏️15 this or that slides

Career Clusters Covered:

✏️Agriculture, Food & Natural Resources

✏️Architecture & Construction

✏️Arts, A/V Technology & Communications

✏️Business Management & Administration

✏️Education & Training

✏️Finance

✏️Government & Public Administration

✏️Health Science

✏️Hospitality & Tourism

✏️Human Services

✏️Information Technology

✏️Law, Public Safety, Corrections & Security

✏️Manufacturing

✏️Marketing

✏️Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics

✏️Transportation, Distribution & Logistics

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Engage your students with this comprehensive, no-prep resource that explores the exciting world of video games! Perfect for elementary classrooms (Grades 2-5), this lesson combines reading comprehension, interactive quizzes, and a hands-on creative project to teach students about video game design, careers in gaming, and safe gaming habits.

What’s Included:

✅ Informational Text: A kid-friendly, 6-page PDF explaining video games, their types, and the roles of game designers, programmers, artists, and testers. ✅ Multiple-Choice & Short Answer Questions: Reinforce learning with auto-graded quizzes (answer key included). ✅ True/False & Fill-in-the-Blanks: Fun assessments to check understanding. ✅ Vocabulary Matching & Labeling Activities: Build key terms like "programmer," "simulation," and "game designer." ✅ Creative Design Project: Students imagine and draw their own video game, describing its story, characters, and gameplay (perfect for bulletin boards or presentations!). ✅ Safety Tips: Teach responsible gaming with rules like taking breaks and protecting personal information online.

Why Teachers Love It:

✨ Aligned with STEM/STEAM – Integrates technology, art, and critical thinking. ✨ Print & Digital Ready – Use as a worksheet packet, group activity, or homework assignment. ✨ Engages Reluctant Learners – Taps into students’ love of gaming while teaching ELA, career skills, and digital citizenship. ✨ Flexible for Subs or Centers – Clear instructions make it great for independent work.

Perfect for:

• Technology or Computer Science Units
• Career Day (Game Design & Coding Connections)
• ELA Nonfiction Reading & Writing
• After-School Clubs or Summer Camps

Grades: 3–5 | Subjects: ELA, STEM, Career Readiness, Digital Literacy

Format: PDF (Printable or Projectable) | Pages: 15 (Incl. Answer Key)

Simple machines have been the building blocks of more complex machines throughout the years. The gear is one of the most fundamental of the simple machines. Gears can help transfer power, increase or decrease speed and/or power, and change the direction of movement by simply working together.

Your students can experience gears through this activity as they build FOUR different gear sets .

1. Understanding how connected gears affect direction.

2. Compound Gear Train - gear input and output on the same side of a wall

3. Reverted Gear Train - input and output gears on same plane, but not directly connected

4. Large Gear Train - demonstrates Mechanical Advantage and directions of gears

Student Friendly! Easy to follow build directions!

ZIP File includes Student Handout and Teacher Answer Key

❤️Looking for notable Latino historical figures posters to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and decorate your bulletin board, hallway, door, or classroom? Introduce 10 different important Hispanic Americans, learn about their occupations and meaningful contributions they made with these printable posters!

✅ Hispanic Leaders included:

Oscar de la Renta, Bruno Mars, Octaviano Larrazolo, Joseph Acaba, George M. Wright, Dara Torres, Helen Rodríguez Trías, Frida Kahlo, Ellen Ochoa, Alexandria Ocasio-Co

*This is set 2 of this series. To view set 1, click here.

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✏️ These colorful Hispanic Heritage poster packs are the perfect addition to your Hispanic Heritage Month unit! Or celebrate throughout the year!

✏️Create eye-catching bulletin boards, hallway displays, Hispanic historical figure education books, coloring pages, and more!

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⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print the ready to go posters and laminate for durability.

⭐️Black and white set included! Students can choose a historical figure and color their own poster! Combine pages to create a Hispanic historical figures coloring book!

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✅ Includes 4 poster sets - 8.5 x 11 in (40 pages):

☑ Poster set 1 - leader's image, name and job title

☑ Poster set 2 - leader's image, name and sentence about who they are

☑ Poster set 3 - leader's image, name and memorable quote

☑ Poster set 4 - leader's image, name and fun facts

✅ Historical Leaders: (10)

☑ Oscar de la Renta - fashion designer

☑ Bruno Mars - musician

☑ Octaviano Larrazolo - politician

☑ Joseph Acaba - astronaut

☑ George M. Wright - biologist

☑ Dara Torres - swimmer

☑ Helen Rodríguez Trías - doctor

☑ Frida Kahlo - painter

☑ Ellen Ochoa - astronaut

☑ Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez - politician

✅ Bonus:

☑ Black and white set (40 pages)

☑ Table of contents (1 page)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

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This Bingo game is a great game to familiarize students with a variety of Community Helpers and Career options. This is a great game for a whole class approach or center activities.

This bingo game includes the following community helpers and career options:

Detective, vet, builder, doctor, hairdresser, judge, police officer, mailman, teacher, farmer, chef, artist, musician, astronaut and fire fighter.

The caller reads the bingo card, and the players identify whether they have that card on their BINGO mat. If they do, then they cross it off and the first to cross off all nine community helpers on their unique mat first wins the game!

There are over 40 different Bingo mats for larger classes as well as colourful and engaging community helper cards.

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❤️Looking for notable Latino historical figures posters to celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month and decorate your bulletin board, hallway, door, or classroom? Introduce 10 different important Hispanic Americans, learn about their occupations and meaningful contributions they made with these printable posters!

✅ Hispanic Leaders included:

Oscar De La Hoya, José Feliciano, Roberto Clemente, Sonia Sotomayor, Rita Moreno, Cesar Chavez, Anthony Romero, Selena Gomez, Bob Menendez, Marco Rubio

*This is set 1 of this series. To view set 2, click here.

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✏️ Great for any elementary grade!

✏️ These colorful Hispanic Heritage poster packs are the perfect addition to your Hispanic Heritage Month unit! Or celebrate throughout the year!

✏️Create eye-catching bulletin boards, hallway displays, Hispanic historical figure education books, coloring pages, and more!

.................................................................................................................................................

⭐️This resource is low prep and will save you time! Simply print the ready to go posters and laminate for durability.

⭐️Black and white set included! Students can choose a historical figure and color their own poster! Combine pages to create a Hispanic historical figures coloring book!

⭐️Check out the preview and preview video for a sneak peek!

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✅ Includes 4 poster sets - 8.5 x 11 in (40 pages):

☑ Poster set 1 - Historical figure picture, name and job title

☑ Poster set 2 - Historical figure picture, name and sentence about who they are

☑ Poster set 3 - Historical figure picture, name and memorable quote

☑ Poster set 4 - Historical figure picture, name and fun facts

✅ Hispanic historical figures included (10):

☑ Oscar De La Hoya - boxer

☑ José Feliciano - musician

☑ Roberto Clemente - baseball player

☑ Sonia Sotomayor - judge

☑ Rita Moreno - actress

☑ Cesar Chavez - activist

☑ Anthony Romero - activist

☑ Selena Gomez - singer / actress

☑ Bob Menendez - politician

☑ Marco Rubio - politician

✅ Bonus:

☑ Black and white set (40 pages)

☑ Table of contents (1 page)

☑ What you need to know (1 page)

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Communication is the backbone of any society. It allows us to form connections, influence decisions, and motivate change! This public speaking game will allow students to practice important skills needed to be successful in their futures. Great for AVID, counseling, college and career, speech, or just used as a fun brain break in any class!

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What's Included:

• 1 directions pages
• 1 optional points slide
• 25 topics with silent 30 second prep timers
• 25 thirty second speech timer slides
• Editable template

Directions:

• Put students into groups or breakout rooms of 4-6 students
• Go over the directions with students:
• Wait for the impromptu topic to show up on the screen (ex: tell your group 3 different ways to eat an oreo)
• Decide who in the group will start and that student will have 30 seconds to prepare for their speech after the topic is revealed
• After 30 seconds the student will present their topic for 30 seconds

Optional Points:

• Secretly give points/take away points from group members on a small whiteboard or notebook paper
• Groups can earn by: Focusing on good voice, being creative with their responses, eye contact, posture, using an opening/closing statement, and making good points for your topic
• Groups can lose points by: being a poor audience member, having poor posture, not using good voice, not using eye contact, using filler words: like, um, so, okay, yeah, kinda…

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Build classroom community and relational capacity with this exciting AVID resource! This resource includes 56 charade cards that students can use in small groups.

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What's Included:

• 1 Directions page
• 1 Rules page
• 12 "person" charade cards
• 12 "place" charade cards
• 12 "thing" charade cards
• 8 "game" charade cards

Directions:

• Print multiple sets of the attached cards
• Divide the class into groups
• Groups take turns drawing a card and acting out what is printed on the card
• The person acting out what is printed on the card first reads the category aloud (i.e. place, thing, action, person, etc.)
• 30 seconds is given to act out what is on the card

Rules:

• The actor may not talk or make a sound at any time.

• The actor may not point to an object in the room.

• The actor may hold up fingers for the number of words in the phrase being acted out (i.e. flying a kite = 3 fingers, boat = 1 finger)

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Are you looking for an engaging Reindeer in Disguise Take Home or Class College Research Project for your AVID students this Christmas season? This how-to disguise a Reindeer hands-on, interactive project is the perfect engaging twist on your college research projects! You can print or use the digital template and allow students to copy and paste images to disguise their reindeer in Google Slides.

Christmas will be here soon and the reindeer are getting nervous for their duties! Our students will be able to help keep them safe and away from all their stressful duties. Your students will love creating and writing about their reindeer and the college that it hides at to stay in disguise.

This resource includes everything you need to create an adorable bulletin board project for your AVID students!

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Directions:

• Print out the reindeer template or use the digital template provided.
• Students will color or cut-out designs, use construction paper and crafts to disguise their reindeer OR find digital images to copy and paste to the digital reindeer.
• Students disguise their reindeer in college gear from the college they are interested in researching.
• Students then answer the 18 college research questions about the college of their choice.
• Lastly, students write a story naming their reindeer and describing a day in the life of their first day of college as he/she hides from their Santa duties. Their paper should also include 5 pieces of information from your college research.

What is included in this product?

• Reindeer Template (Printable or Digital)
• Project Requirements
• Career Research Websites List
• 18 Career Research Questions
• "I am NOT a reindeer" writing pages

Your students will love getting creative with this fun Reindeer in Disguise Writing Craft.

**Are you worried about prepping these activities? Don't be! This mini-unit is quick and easy to prep...**Just print the student pages and you'll be ready for a fun and engaging project!

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Are you looking for an engaging Turkey in Disguise Take Home or Class Project for your AVID students this Thanksgiving season? This how-to disguise a Turkey hands-on, interactive career project is the perfect engaging twist on your career research projects! You can print or use the digital template and allow students to copy and paste images to disguise their turkey in Google Slides.

Thanksgiving will be here soon and our turkeys are getting nervous! Your students will be able to help keep them safe and away from hungry fans. Your students will love creating and writing about their turkey and its career that it hides at to stay in disguise.

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Directions:

• Students will cut out the turkey template.
• Students can use the digital template or print, color and cut out designs, or use construction paper and crafts to disguise their turkey in a career they are interested in researching.
• Students will answer the 14 career research questions about the career of their choice in their own notes.
• Students will write a story naming their turkey and describing a day in the life of his/her career as he/she hides from hungry fans. Their paper should also include 5 pieces of information from their career research.

What is included in this product?

• Turkey Template
• Project Requirements
• Career Research Websites List
• 14 Career Research Questions
• "Don’t eat me, I am NOT a turkey" writing pages

Your students will love getting creative with this fun Turkey in Disguise Writing Craft.

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Use these marking the text Instructional Practice slides with instructions to help students understand why we mark our text and learn to remember how to correctly mark a text in order to gain a deeper understanding of it's main ideas and important evidence. These slides provides step-by-step instructions to guide students in the process of marking the text!

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Directions:

• Use the 7 teach slides to explain the what and why behind marking the text.'
• Use the 9 marking the text steps to have students practice the skill through reading an article, prepping for a Socratic seminar, marking focused notes etc.

Uses:

• reading and analyzing articles
• prepping for a socratic seminar
• using the slides for practicing focused note-taking
• marking notes from any subject
• marking articles for discussion
• informational/nonfiction texts
• literature
• any subject area
• AVID
• small group help

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Do you teach a college and career course? Are you an AVID teacher or maybe a counselor? Do your students love to debate? Then your students will love this college and career would you rather game! Perfect for back to school or any time in the school year!

Allow your students to debate as they process and think about their futures in a college and/or a career. I promise it will leave your students both laughing and thinking!

What do you get?

15 College and career would you rather question slides

When to Use:

AVID, Counseling, Framework Friday, Middle or High school brain break

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Leap Year 2024 | Leap Day Activity | Do We Need Leap Year Socratic Seminar: In this Mini Socratic Seminar and Lesson students will mark the text of an article about Leap Year and why we have them. Then they will have a Socratic Seminar in small groups in order to discuss the essential question, “What is a leap year and is it a necessity?”

By the end of this Socratic Seminar, your students will have a deep understanding of what a Leap Year is and how to mark a text to prepare for a successful Socratic Seminar. Use this AVID Mini Socratic Seminar Lesson to increase dialogue and engagement in your classroom!

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What's Included:

• Lesson Plan with a walkthrough of all the slides and a video overview and explanation.
• What is a Leap Year Article- google doc which includes a transcript for students to mark their text and come up with questions in the margins for the Seminar. They will also add an essential question at the top, asummary at the bottom, and fill out the embedded vocabulary chart.
• Google slides- go over the lesson and discuss the process of a Socratic Seminar. The slides include embedded links for students to follow along and access required documents.
• Participant Reflection- a digital Google Sheets document for students to summarize and reflect what they learned through the Seminar.

Directions:

• Students will discuss prior knowledge they share about leap years
• Students will read the provided article and follow directions in the slides to mark the text
• Students will highlight unknown words and add these words and their definitions to their embedded vocabulary chart in the article text
• Students will come up with questions for the Socratic Seminar using Costa's Level of Thinking.
• Students will meet with a partner to clarify any confusion.
• Students will summarize the text by answering the EQ in 3-5 sentences.
• Students will review the protocol for Socratic Seminars.
• Students will use their questions and provided sentence stems to have dialogue in the Seminar.
• Students will complete a participant checklist to reflect on the seminar.

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Vocabulary plays a huge role in preparing for student's college and career success. Use this SAT / ACT word list and log to help your students gain a deeper understanding of the vocabulary from any content area OR if you're an AVID teacher use the 53 vocabulary words that focus on academic language essential to the SAT/ACT tests and for college and career readiness. Then let students practice what they learned with an engaging card game inspired by Taboo! Simply print multiple sets of the cards, cut, laminate, and place into bags for small groups!

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What's Included:

• 2 Direction pages
• 53 Vocabulary cards
• 1 Excel log including the 53 words used

Directions for the Card Game:

• This game was inspired by the game TABOO

1. Students are put into small groups with an even number of players.
2. Each group is split into 2 teams.
3. The clue giver will start a 1 minute timer and turn over a card so nobody can see. (colors don' matter)
4. The clue giver now says words (not sounds or gestures) to get their team to guess the word at the top of the card.
5. The clue giver cannot say any of the words (or forms of the words) listed on the card. Formations include: abbreviations, tenses (past, present, future), initials, spelling, letters, sounds like, rhyming, smaller version words, compound words.

6. Teammates can guess as many words as possible before the timer runs out.
7. The clue giver may pass on a word and place it in a discard pile.
8. If the clue giver uses an illegal word, the opposing team who is monitoring, can sound a buzzer or shout the word "AVID." Then the clue giver must place the card in the discard pile and try a new word.
9. When the timer is done the team will count up how many points earned based off of how many words were guessed correctly. The opposing team gets one point for each card placed in the discard pile.
10 Switch teams and repeat. The team with the highest points, wins!

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AVID College Debate Activity - Speed Philosophical Chairs for Team Building: Use this college-themed AVID speed philosophical chairs icebreaker activity to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking in your classroom as well as get students in the college spirit! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "College should be free."

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Directions:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and you will define the two sides of the debate (Agree/Disagree).
2. Students move to the side of the room that they intend to defend.
3. An embedded timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.
4. Students attempt to keep contributions to less than 30 seconds each.
5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

What's Included:

• A teaching slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide that includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20-speed philosophical chairs college-themed debate statements
• A 5-minute silent timer embedded in each slide

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AVID Career Debate Activity - Speed Philosophical Chairs for Team Building: Use this career-themed AVID speed philosophical chairs icebreaker activity to promote debate through dialogue and public speaking in your classroom! Students will not only learn what speed philosophical chairs is but they will enjoy some exciting dialogue through 20 fun debate topics.

For example, students will choose to agree or disagree with the statement, "There should be a salary cap for celebrities like athletes and actors."

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Directions:

1. A central statement will be announced to the class and you will define the two sides of the debate (Agree/Disagree).
2. Students move to the side of the room that they intend to defend.
3. An embedded timer will be set for 5 minutes, and the debate will start between the two groups.
4. Students attempt to keep contributions to less than 30 seconds each.
5. A new prompt is displayed and we start another round of quick debates.

What's Included:

• A teaching slide for "the why" of speed philosophical chairs
• A slide that includes the rules of engagement for students
• A slide for the steps of this speed philosophical chairs activity
• 20-speed philosophical chairs college-themed debate statements
• Preview (Optional)

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This exciting summer-themed 30-second speech activity is great for AVID, counseling, college and career, speech, or just used as a fun brain break in any class! Use it at the end of the year to test your students public speaking, dialogue, eye contact, planning, and teamwork skills!

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What's Included:

• 1 directions pages
• 1 optional points slide
• 15 summer topics with silent 30 second prep timers
• 15 thirty-second speech timer slides
• 1 editable template to make your own OR let students make their own!

Directions:

• Put students into groups or breakout rooms of 4-6 students
• Go over the directions with students:
• Wait for the impromptu topic to show up on the screen (ex: convince your friends that applesauce is the best sunburn remedy)
• Decide who in the group will start and that student will have 30 seconds to prepare for their speech after the topic is revealed
• After 30 seconds the student will present their topic for 30 seconds

Optional Points:

• Secretly give points/take away points from group members on a small whiteboard or notebook paper
• Groups can earn by: Focusing on good voice, being creative with their responses, eye contact, posture, using an opening/closing statement, and making good points for your topic
• Groups can lose points by: being a poor audience member, having poor posture, not using good voice, not using eye contact, using filler words: like, um, so, okay, yeah, kinda…

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Set Sail for Creativity: Sailor and Captain Crown Templates for Classroom Fun. Enhance your little sailors learning experience with these exciting paper craft templates. Ideal for kindergarten, pre-k & preschool. Fuel their imagination with this hands-on activity. The printables include two black and white crown designs, with additional color versions, providing a perfect opportunity for coloring and cutting. Whether for morning work, centers, or early finishers, these templates are a fantastic way to introduce or reinforce the themes of sailors, captains, oceans, and under the sea adventures. Navigate your classroom into a world of creativity with these captivating Sailor and Captain Crown templates. Anchors aweigh!

This product includes:

• 2 black and white templates,
• 2 color templates,
• Side templates.

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Do you teach a college and career course? Are you an AVID teacher or maybe a counselor? Do your students love to debate? Then your students will love this extracurricular and involvement activities would you rather! Get your students excited about clubs and sports they could join to enhance their academic career. I promise it will leave your students both laughing and thinking!

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15 College and career would you rather question slides

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Teach your students about conflict management through this engaging Passive, Assertive, or Aggressive AVID improv game. This would be perfect to pair with your passive, assertive, or aggressive lesson OR used as a fun team building game. This is also a great way for students to practice their public speaking skills.

Directions:

• Each slide will have a number and that number represents how many actors will participate in the improv.
• Actors will be given a challenge to act out a different scenario and will decide who plays what role as a team.
• Actors should draw a card to decide if they are playing a passive, assertive, or aggressive role.
• They must portray a passive, assertive, or aggressive tone as they act out the scenario.
• The student audience will try to guess what tone each actor is portraying.

*consider having audience teams and points

What's Included:

• 1 direction slide
• 1 teach slide with definitions and examples of passive, assertive, and aggressive behaviors
• 15 scenario slides

Some Scenario Examples:

• At a police station being interrogated
• Girl Scouts selling cookies to someone
• News anchor just before the apocalypse

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AVID Mega Growing Bundle

AVID Teambuilding Bundle

AVID Writing Bundle