Advancement Via Individual Determination
[L. avidus]: eager for knowledge
What is AVID?
- A schoolwide college readiness system
- A structured approach to rigorous curriculum
- Direct support structure for first-generation college students and students performing in the middle
- Professional development for all educators
Why AVID Works
- Raises student achievement
- Ensures college access and success
- Closes opportunity and expectation gaps
- Offers meaningful and lasting professional development
Expected Impact from schoolwide AVID
Schoolwide AVID will...
- Increase in completion of college entrance requirements
- Increase in school's offerings of rigorous courses
- Increase in student enrollment in rigorous courses
- Increase in student attendance
- Increase in teaching/instructional efficacy
- Decrease in negative disciplinary referrals
- Transform the school culture from college-eligible to college-ready
The AVID Impact on Schools
- Increases enrollment in advanced academic courses (Pre-AP/Honors) and increases the rigor of all courses
- Implements instructional best practices for all students in the school
- Creates a college-going culture throughout the school
Schoolwide AVID
- AVID is schoolwide when strong AVID system transforms the
Leadership, Instruction, Systems and Culture of a school ensuring college readiness for all students.
The AVID elective student profile
Has academic potential
- Average to high test scores
- 0-3.5 GPA
- College potential with support
- Desire and determination
AVID is transformational
- The AVID System transforms individuals: teachers, administrators, and students.
- AVID transforms campuses: leadership, systems, instruction, and culture.
- AVID transforms communities: One student, impacted by AVID, can create a positive ripple effect throughout their family and community, forever changing the course of their lives.
AVID prepares students to...
- Develop as readers and writers
- Develop deep content knowledge
- Know content specific strategies for reading, writing, thinking, and speaking
- Develop habits, skills, and behaviors to use knowledge and skills
WICOR
- Writing: Cornell Note-Taking, Learning Logs, Quickwrites and Reflections, Process Writing, Peer Evaluation, Authentic Writing
- Inquiry: Skilled Questioning Techniques, Costa's Levels of Thinking, Socratic Seminars, Tutorials, Investigations, Questions that Guide Research
- Collaboration: Socratic Seminars, Tutorials, Philosophical Chairs, Group Activities and Projects, Peer Editing Groups, Service Learning Projects
- Organization: Binders and organizational tools, Calendars, planners and agendas, Graphic Organizers, A focused note-taking system, Tutorials and study groups, project planning and SMART goals
- Reading: Deep Reading Strategies, Note-Taking, Graphic Organizers, Vocabulary Building, Summarizing, Reciprocal Teaching
- WICOR=Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, Reading