1. AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) Overview for Parents & Staff
RCOE Fall 2014

2. The Mission of AVID
AVID's mission is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society.

3. What is AVID? Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ybaW1PBgMyo
6:36 minute video

4. What is AVID?
A structured, college preparatory system working directly with schools and districts
A direct support structure for first-generation college goers, grades 4-16
A schoolwide approach to curriculum and rigor adopted by more than 4,500 schools in 47 states and 16 countries
A professional development program providing training throughout the world

5. What is Avid? AVID: Teaches skills and behaviors for academic success
Provides intensive support with tutorials and strong student/teacher relationships
Creates a positive peer group for students
Develops a sense of hope for personal achievement gained through hard work and determination
As a result, policymakers and educators now consider AVID's mission to be an essential strategy for closing the achievement gap, making college access and success available to all students.

6. AVID Culture AVID system is helpful for everyone College Readiness
Focus on Communication Skill
Training for Staff & Volunteers
Student and Parent Involvement
Professional Learning Communities

7. AVID Selection Students who are in the academic “middle”
Those who have a desire to go to college
Willingness to work hard
Often the first in the family to go to college
Many from a socio-economically disadvantaged family
One or more special factors that have influenced their life

8. The 11 Essentials
1. Avid student selection 2. Voluntary participation 3. AVID elective class offered during the school day 4. Rigorous course of study 5. Strong, relevant, writing and reading curriculum

9. The 11 Essentials
6. Inquiry to promote critical thinking 7. Collaboration as a basis of instruction 8. Trained tutors 9. Data collection and analysis 10. District and school commitment 11. Active, interdisciplinary site team

10. WICOR Writing Writing process Respond, revise Edit, final draft
Cornell Notes
Quickwrites
Learning logs, journals

11. WICOR Inquiry Skilled questioning Socratic Seminars
Quickwrites/discussions
Critical-thinking activities
Writing questions
Open-minded activities

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

13. WICOR Organization Binders Planners Focused note-taking
Project planning

14. WICOR
Reading
SQ5R (Survey, Question, Read, Record, Recite, Review, Reflect)
KWL
Reciprocal teaching
“Think-alouds”
Text structure
Critical reading

15. Taking rigorous courses opens doors!
What is Academic Rigor?
Rigor is the goal of helping students develop the capacity to understand content that is complex, ambiguous, provocative, and personally or emotionally challenging.
Taking rigorous courses opens doors!
Source: Teaching What Matters Most; Standards and Strategies for Raising Student Achievement by Strong, Silver and Perini, ASCD, 2001.

16. AVID AVID supports English Language Learners
AVID helps encourage the use of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) Standards
AVID fits with the Common Core
AVID is a free program at your school
How does AVID support English language learners?
As part of AVID’s English Learner College Readiness (ELCR), AVID Excel works to ensure middle school English language learner (ELL) students can succeed in high school college preparatory coursework. AVID Excel interrupts students’ long-term ELL (L-TELL) status and accelerates their academic language acquisition, while giving them the strategies and supports which are the hallmarks of the AVID College Readiness System.
How does AVID help with STEM? (Science, Technology, Engineering & Math)
AVID Center developed four STEM Math and Science Summer Bridge Programs to strengthen AVID’s support for middle level student achievement in math and science and to encourage student acceleration and interest in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics) fields. The AVID STEM Summer Bridge Programs offer rigorous math and science content incorporating WICOR strategies in engaging, collaborative lessons and activities.
Where does AVID fit in with the Common Core?
While the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) describe “what” students should know, AVID strategies provide “how” students will learn and master the knowledge and skills needed to meet the standards. The expectations of AVID align with CCSS in many ways and are embedded within the curriculum to meet the rigorous expectations. For example, the higher-level thinking skills required by the CCSS (i.e., analyzing, comparing, inferring) are the exact skills that AVID has promoted and used to design its curriculum for the last 30 years.

17. AVID Closes the Achievement Gap for ALL Students
AVID Center. AVID Senior Data Collection. Study of 22,210 AVID Seniors, [Electronic Database]. ( ).
Manhattan Institute, Education Working Paper Greene, J.P., Forster, G. "Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the U.S.“ (The most recent national data available.) *Filipino and Other not classified in Manhattan Institute study.

18. AVID Closes the Achievement Gap for ALL Students
AVID Center. AVID Senior Data Collection. Study of 22,210 AVID Seniors, [Electronic Database]. ( ).
California Department of Education. Dataquest. 12th Grade Graduates Completing all Courses Required for U.C. and/or C.S.U. Entrance Requirements, n = 376,393
Manhattan Institute, Education Working Paper Greene, J.P., Forster, G. "Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the U.S.“ (The most recent national data available.) *Filipino and Other not classified in Manhattan Institute study.

19. Proportion of AVID Seniors Completing College Entrance Requirements
AVID Center. Senior Data Collection System, 2006 – n=75,081.
Manhattan Institute, Education Working Paper Greene, J.P., Forster, G. "Public High School Graduation and College Readiness Rates in the U.S.“ (The most recent national data available.)
Percentages have been rounded to the nearest whole percent.

20. Percent of Students Applying and Getting Accepted to University of California System
AVID Center. AVID Senior Data Collection, CA Seniors, n = 13,985
California Post-Secondary Education System (CPEC). Enrollment of First-Time Freshmen age 19 and under in Public Institutions For Aggregated by Higher Education System Where High School County is All Known School Type is Any Public School Including Total of Public High School Graduates. n = 375,973

21. Percent of Students Applying and Getting Accepted to California State University System
AVID Center. AVID Senior Data Collection, CA Seniors, n = 13,985
California Post-Secondary Education System (CPEC). Enrollment of First-Time Freshmen age 19 and under in Public Institutions For Aggregated by Higher Education System Where High School County is All Known School Type is Any Public School Including Total of Public High School Graduates. n = 375,973

22. Percent of Students Completing the California “a-g” Requirements
AVID Center. AVID Senior Data Collection, CA Seniors, n = 13,985
California Post-Secondary Education System (CPEC). Enrollment of First-Time Freshmen age 19 and under in Public Institutions For Aggregated by Higher Education System Where High School County is All Known School Type is Any Public School Including Total of Public High School Graduates. n = 375,973

23. More than 30 years of Success
In just over 30 years, AVID has become one of the most successful college-preparatory programs for low-income underserved students, and today reaches more than 425,000 students in approximately 4,800 schools in 48 states and 16 other countries/territories
Since 1990, more than 85,500 AVID students have graduated from high school and planned to attend college.

24. AVID Real Life
Vanessa’s story
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