What is AVID?

What is AVID?

• AVID stands for: Advancement Via Individual Determination

• The purpose of AVID is to bring academic success to all students.

• All 5th grade students at BFES will participate in the AVID program.

What is AVID? (continued)

Key Components

1st Year Focus Areas Student Success Skills = speaking, listening, self-advocacy, study habits Organizational Tools = agenda, binder, time management, goals, note-taking (3 Formats)

2nd Year Focus Areas WICOR Lessons with emphasis on writing, inquiry, collaboration, organization, reading Partnerships = articulation.

• AVID Elementary Program Overview At a Glance is part of a district-wide effort to create college-ready students

• It is a foundational program for elementary sites (grades 4-6), that feed into certified AVID Elective programs at both the middle and high school levels

• AVID is an embedded sequential academic skills program intended for non-elective, multi-subject, self-contained classrooms across the entire grade levels

• There is an Elementary District Liaison who will oversee elementary sites and data collection

• Site administrator and site teacher leader per grade level trained at Summer Institute

• All teachers in targeted grade level trained by AVID Center Elementary Training Days or Summer Institute

Why use AVID?

• Students’ success in class depends on their ability to implement specific skills that enable them to be prepared and organized.

• These skills are habits, behaviors, and strategies that they can learn.

• By utilizing these skills daily, students become proactive learners who take responsibility for their learning.

AVID in a nutshell

• AVID is an in-school academic support program for grades 4-12 that prepares students for college eligibility and success.

• Each student keeps a binder with dividers for different subjects, a pencil case and takes notes daily.

• The students primarily use their notes as study guides to help them with their homework, or to remember key concepts from the texts they are studying.

• Notebooks will be checked and graded based on a rubric that students will be given.

College Bound!If students implement these organizational

strategies they will:

• Be prepared and able to handle more rigorous curriculum as they advance

• Be organized in a way that optimizes learning and understanding

• Have the tools to successfully graduate from college