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A guide to Implementing AVID Secondary for Coordinators and Site Teams

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2025-26 Guide To Implementing AVID Secondary (1).pdf

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A Guide to Implementing AVID Elementary for Coordinators and Site Teams.

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AVID Open Access is available to all sites and educators. It does not require a log-in. It is a free digital resource platform created by AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) to support educators with high-quality, ready-to-use teaching tools and strategies.

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Explore Computer Science activities created and curated by AVID for K-12 students! Learn more

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AVID Open Access - Resources to Accelerate, Inspire, and Empower

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AVID Open Access offers grab-and-go online teaching tools and STEM resources for K-12 virtual learning. Free curated lessons for your classroom!

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Inspect the key components of the AVID College and Career Readiness System and how it connects to their district, campus, and professional role.

Explore their role in the AVID College and Career Readiness (CCR) Framework and how this framework supports what students need, and what educators need to do to promote student success.

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When schools partner with AVID, they receive professional development, a suite of resources, and ongoing support to ensure a lasting impact that maximizes their return on investment. AVID is not "one more thing to do"-our work with schools aligns with their goals to accelerate and enhance the work that is already happening.

Professional Learning
That Sticks

AVID's professional learning benefits both beginning and experienced educators. Here, educators reevaluate their beliefs and expectations around student potential and learn and practice activities that transform classrooms and campuses. Trainings cover all core content areas and all grade levels in topics such as Academic Language and Literacy, and Digital Teaching and Learning.

Resources That Drive School Transformation

AVID offers a variety of classroom activities, lesson plans, professional learning videos, and timely articles that are relevant to students. These tools help educators implement and refine instructional practices. They also help educators provide the key academic and social supports students need to thrive. Schools can utilize the professional learning modules and materials for in-service training and can access all of these resources year-round.

Feedback and Follow-Up to Keep You on Track

AVID provides more than just a training and a few classroom resources. AVID provides schools a direct line of support to regional teams, data tracking, planning guides, and self-assessments to help schools measure their success and refine their approach. AVID empowers schools to create change in a way that is sustainable, measured, and responsive to campus needs.

AVID provides scaffolded support that educators and students need to encourage college and career readiness and success. With AVID, school leaders have the flexibility to start small and can deepen AVID's impact on their campus over time.

AVID Secondary

Our nation's schools are full of students who possess a desire to go to college and the willingness to work hard, but many of them do not truly have the opportunity to be college-ready. These are often the students who will be the first in their families to attend college and are from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education. AVID Secondary equips teachers and schools with what they need to help these students succeed on a path to college and career success.

To address this need, AVID has developed the AVID Elective course. For one period a day, students receive the additional academic, social, and emotional support that will help them succeed in their school's most rigorous courses. Districts have the flexibility to decide how many AVID Elective classes to start and which grade levels will implement AVID first. Additionally, in middle school, the language and literacy needs of long-term English language learners can be addressed through the AVID Excel elective class.

The power of AVID Secondary is the ability to impact students in the AVID Elective class and all students throughout the campus. AVID Secondary can have an effect on the entire school by providing classroom activities, teaching practices, and academic behaviors that can be incorporated into any classroom to improve engagement and success for all students. Teachers can take what they've learned at AVID training back to any classroom to help all students, not just those in AVID, to become more college- and career-ready.

The training can start with a group as small as eight participating in three days of AVID professional learning.

AVID Elementary

By teaching and reinforcing academic behaviors and higher-level thinking at a young age, AVID Elementary teachers create a ripple effect in later grades. Elementary students develop the academic habits they will need to be successful in middle school, high school, and college, in an age-appropriate and challenging way. Children learn about organization, study skills, communication, and self-advocacy. AVID Elementary students take structured notes and answer and ask high-level questions that go beyond routine answers.

The strong college-going culture on an AVID Elementary campus encourages students to think about their college and career plans. Schools cover their walls with college pennants and banners, and educators speak about their college experiences. College and careers are no longer foreign concepts, and teachers provide the academic foundation students need to be on a path for college and career success. AVID Elementary closes the opportunity gap before it begins.

Schools may begin AVID Elementary by training teachers across a certain grade level(s) or the entire campus. The training can start with a group as small as four participating in three days of AVID professional learning.

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The AVID Site Team Manual is a key resource provided to AVID schools and districts to support site team members in implementing, sustaining, and deepening the AVID College and Career Readiness System.

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The official online portal for AVID educators who are part of schools or districts that implement the AVID program (pay the membership). Unlike AVID Open Access, which is free and open to the public, MyAVID requires a login and is only available to authorized AVID members.

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The "AVID Site Goals Choose Your Own Adventure: Creating a New Goal" is a guided, interactive planning tool designed to help AVID site teams collaboratively create a meaningful and actionable site-wide AVID goal. It’s part of AVID’s professional learning resources and supports goal-setting aligned to the AVID College and Career Readiness Framework.

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The "AVID Site Goals Choose Your Own Adventure: Refining an Existing Goal" is a structured, interactive planning tool that helps AVID site teams reflect on, evaluate, and improve an existing AVID site goal. It’s a companion to the “Creating a New Goal” version but focuses specifically on enhancing the effectiveness and implementation of a current goal rather than starting from scratch.

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The "AVID Site Goals Choose Your Own Adventure: Ensuring Sustainability of an Achieved Goal" is the third tool in AVID’s site goal reflection and planning series. It’s designed to help AVID site teams sustain and institutionalize a goal that has already been achieved—so the work doesn’t fade once the initial implementation ends.

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Core Strategies

The webpages below contain resources supporting implementation of AVID’s Core Strategies. These strategies were selected for their efficacy in supporting development of WICOR® skills, their inclusion in AVID’s Coaching and Certification Instrument (CCI), and their prevalence across AVID. Contained on the pages are a wealth of resources, including:

Quick-Start Resources, designed to support educators in initially implementing the strategy

Refining Resources, intended for educators who have implemented the strategy and are now ready to go deeper

Content-Specific Resources, which provide examples of how this strategy may look across levels and content areas

Professional Learning Resources, created to support sites as they train educators on the strategy

Digital Learning Resources, which support implementation of the strategy in digital- or hybrid-learning environments

These resources support schoolwide instruction and systems to help all students and educators be successful.

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Benefits of the AVID Program: Results of a UCLA Study, with Dr. Rebecca Dudovitz - AVID Open Access

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Dr. Rebecca Dudovitz reviews the results of her new research highlighting the benefits of the AVID program on student health.

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Critical Reading and Digital Marking of Text

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Critical Reading and Digital Marking of Text

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Incorporate Strategies for Critical Reading and Digital Marking of Text - AVID Open Access

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Explore strategies and tools that will help students critically read and mark up digital documents, PDFs, and websites.

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Digital Organization

For students to be successful in their digital-learning environment, they need to be able to collect their work, reflect on their learning process, and then recollect their learning for later application. AVID eBinders are a great digital tool for getting your students started on their journey to process their learning.

AVID eBinder Templates

Strategies that students can use to manage their many digital materials are included below. These strategies are platform and device agnostic. They are written with the older student as the intended audience. To teach younger students these skills, you can reference these strategies and resources to design age-appropriate lessons and materials. In fact, these digital organization strategies and tools are useful to educators as we manage and share our many digital resources and materials.

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For students to be successful in their digital-learning environment, they need to be able to collect their work, reflect on their learning process, and then recollect their learning for later application. AVID eBinders are a great digital tool for getting your students started on their journey to process their learning.

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To make these templates easier to find, we've organized them into the categories below. Let us know if you have any questions or recommendations for future templates, and don't forget to check back regularly for new items!

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Explore a library of grab-and-go graphic organizers we've created to help make your day-to-day lesson development just a bit easier.

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Integrating WICOR®, with Kera Diller - AVID Open Access

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AVID Site Coordinator Kera Diller shares strategies for implementing AVID's WICOR methodology-which incorporates Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading-in K-12 classrooms.

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Kayla Gamboa-AVID Summer Institute 2023-DALLAS

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