Palmview High School Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program tutors with Mr. Hector Treviño (teacher coordinator), Dr. Encarnación Garza (UTSA professor), Dr. Juanita García (IDRA) and Dr. Nilka Avíles (IDRA)

• IDRA Newsletter • April 2012 •

Palmview High School in La Joya ISD, Texas, began implementing the Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program during the 2011-12 school year with a group of seniors who needed support to continue their efforts to graduate. The district also wanted to expose them to college as a possibility for their futures. The students shown here are at the University of Texas at San Antonio where they spent a day touring the campus, observing a freshman orientation class, and participating in college and career awareness activities. Palmview High School students also will serve as co-facilitators and mentors for the leadership day planned for the eight La Joya ISD middle schools that are implementing the Coca-Cola Valued Youth Program. The middle school leadership day will be held in May 2012 at University of Texas at Pan American in Edinburg, Texas.

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[©2012, IDRA. This article originally appeared in the April 2012 IDRA Newsletter by the Intercultural Development Research Association. Permission to reproduce this article is granted provided the article is reprinted in its entirety and proper credit is given to IDRA and the author.]

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