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  • Students’ academic identities
  • An engaged classroom culture
  • Critical skills for academic success
  • Successful academic transitions
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AYD develops and supports a classroom culture of engagement, collaboration, motivation, and risk-taking.

AYD fosters in students the idea that they are accountable for their own learning. Through participation in the program, they become engaged in new content and willing to take risks in the pursuit of knowledge and mastery.