Welcome Back AVID Ohana
We are preparing students for success in a global society
2018-2019 School year
What is AVID?
All students?
"AVID's mission is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society"
Why 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.
AVID School Site of Distinction
AVID Summer Institute
Mikki Matautia
Katie Fixsen
Tiffany Daher
Kodi Keller
Danielle Rubacky
Julie Spy
Shaylene Newman
Xoong Lou
What to attend SI next year?
What is a CCI?
The CCI is organized into four sections that correspond to the four AVID Schoolwide Domains: Instruction, Systems, Leadership, and Culture. Use of the CCI helps schools ensure fidelity to the AVID system and plan for sustainable growth. AVID certification is based on the level of implementation of each Domain.
Which domains... Which Indicators...
- Domain I (Instruction): Indicator 4 (Higher Level Thinking)
- Domain I (Instruction): Indicator 14 (Critical Reading)
- Domain II (Systems): Indicator 20 (Academic support structures & Rigorous Instructional Practices)
- Domain IV (Culture): Indicator 6 (College Pennants & Banners)
What is WICOR?
What is WICOR Wednesday?
Below are the WICOR Wednesdays from previous years! Enjoy!
I: Inquiry
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C: Collaboration
C: COLLABORATION
Collaborative learning involves intentionally designed student groups engaged in “co-laboring” toward meaningful learning outcomes, using active engagement activities planned to maximize learning, and facilitating the sharing of the workload . AVID’s high engagement learning strategies involve collaborative activities through which individual students help each other learn, thereby strengthen their own learning.
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O: Organization
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R: Reading
R: READING
Reading is fundamental to functioning in today's society. Kids who read ...
- Often and widely get better at it.
- Exercise their brains.
- Improve concentration.
- Teaches them about the world around them.
- Improves vocabulary, leads to more highly-developed language skills and improves the child's ability to write well.
- Develops imagination.
- Helps develop empathy.
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Learning Logs
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Focus Notes
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Philosophical Chairs
Philosophical Chairs is similar to a debate. Students are given a central topic or question that they must choose to agree, disagree or be neutral regarding the answer. A great Philosophical Chairs discussion starts with a great topic or question. Topics that work best are ones that are important to students or that they feel strongly about.
Student Objective: Students will develop inquiry, oral language, and argumentation skills, through participation in an informed debate on a controversial issue, while considering various points of view.
- AVID Critical Thinking and Engagement Book
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Charting the text
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Looking for more?
The Focus of WICOR Wednesdays for 2018-2019
- Quarter 1: Instruction
- Quarter 2: Systems
- Quarter 3: Culture
- Quarter 4: Leadership
What has changed with notes this year?
1. Taking Notes: Create the notes. Select a note-taking format, set up the notes, and take notes based on an information source (lecture, book, website, article, video, etc.), selecting, paraphrasing, and arranging the information in a manner that meets the notetaking objective. The format will vary according to the notetaking purpose and objective.
2. Processing Notes: Think about the notes. Revise notes—by underlining, highlighting, circling, chunking, questioning, adding, and/or deleting—to identify, select, sort, organize, and classify main ideas and details. Evaluate the relative importance of information and ideas in the notes.
3. Connecting Thinking: Think beyond the notes. Analyze the notes using inquiry to make connections and deepen content knowledge by asking questions and adding your own thinking to create greater understanding, identify gaps or points of confusion, and connect your new learning to what you already know.
4. Summarizing and Reflecting on Thinking: Think about the notes as a whole. Pull together the most important aspects of your notes and your thinking about them to craft a summary that captures the meaning and importance of the content and reflects on how the learning helps you meet the note-taking objective.
5. Applying Learning: Use the notes. Save and revisit your notes as a resource or learning tool to help you apply or demonstrate what you have learned.
What to be part of our AVID Team?
- First Site team meeting is tomorrow at 3:30 in room 907
Contact:
Mikki Matautia (AVID Coordinator), mmatautia@powayusd.com, x2907
or
Katie Fixsen (AVID Elective Teacher), kfixsen@powayusd.com, x2309