3. Our Mission: AVID's mission is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society. A structured college preparatory system working directly with schools and districts A direct support structure for first-generation college goers A school wide approach to curriculum and rigorous academic approaches.(Honors and advanced placement(AP))

4.  Rigor is the goal of helping students develop the capacity to understand content that is complex, ambiguous, provocative, and personally or emotionally challenging.

5.  Mondays & Wednesdays- AVID curriculum  Tuesday and Thursdays- Tutorials  Fridays- motivational Fridays

6.  The AVID curriculum varies on students’ grades. Curriculum:  Writing/ personal statements, resumes and scholarship essays  College and Careers/ scholarship opportunities  Strategies for Success  Critical Reading/ weekly newspaper stories

7.  To use as a training tool with AVID tutors to ensure they are equipped to conduct collaborative tutorials that lead to increased student achievement in academic classes.  Collaborative Study Groups  Writing Groups  Socratic Seminars based on questions that remain unanswered

9.  Binder checks  Field Trips  Media center  College speakers  Motivational activities that involve academic resoures

10. Writing process (prewrite to final draft)  Respond, revise  Edit, final draft  Cornell notes  Quick writes based on weekly articles  Learning logs, journals

11.  Inquiry  Skilled questioning  Socratic Seminars  Quick writes/discussions  Critical-thinking activities  Writing questions  Open-minded activities

12.  Collaboration  Group projects  Response/edit/revision groups  Collaboration activities  Tutorials  Study groups  Jigsaw activities  Read-arounds

13. Organization:  Tools  Binders  Calendars, planners, agendas  Graphic organizers Methods:  Focused note-taking system  Tutorials, study groups  Project planning, SMART goals

14. Reading  SQ5R (Survey, Question, Read, Record, Recite, Review, Reflect)  KWL (What I Know; What to Learn; Learned)  Reciprocal teaching  “Think-alouds”  Text structure  Critical reading