What is new with our AVID Ohana?
We are preparing students for success in a global society
2019-2020 School Year
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
Our amazing AVID students past and present who were selected as AVID ambassadors and below our staff members who attend SI
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...
Twin Peaks students will increase their student engagement in all content areas by TPMS focusing on the Instruction Domain, Indicator 8, Structures for Collaboration and Indicator 14, Critical Reading Process. Our students will utilize structures for collaboration , and critical reading strategies in interactive notebooks, digital notebooks, and the AVID Binder.
We are striving for 85% (original data 80%) of our students and teachers using critical reading consistently and 83% (Original data 78%) of teachers and students using higher-level thinking strategies consistently.
What is new to AVID?
The 4 A's in Technology
AVID’s Adopt, Adapt, Accelerate, Advocate (4 A’s) framework provides educators with a pathway
toward meaningfully integrating digital tools and WICOR instructional practices to differentiate
instruction and increase student ownership and independence of their learning.
Adopt
An instructor who adopts
understands the value of
digital tools and begins to
utilize them to enhance
instruction and learning.
Adapt
An instructor who adapts
their practice modifies
lessons to take advantage
of digital tools and begins
to change teaching
practices to be more
student-centered and
collaborative.
Accelerate
An instructor who
accelerates promotes
student ownership of
learning to
produce increased student
engagement, authentic
tasks, and advancement of
teaching and learning
practices.
Advocate
An instructor who
advocates supports and
champions trans formative
teaching and learning
practices to produce
outcomes that could not be
achieved without the use
of technology.
Why?
What were we up to during first quarter?
AVID Induction Ceremony
AVID Leadership field trips
Field trip to SDSU
WICOR Wednesday
Below are the WICOR Wednesdays from previous years! Enjoy!
Inquiry
I: Inquiry
Inquiry-based learning focuses on the student as learner, developing skillful, open-ended questioning skills. Being able to recognize different levels of questions is beneficial for all students in many areas of learning. Understanding the three levels of questions, designed by Art Costa, is critical for student success. Click on the subjects below for Costa questions by subject.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE SMORE
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.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE SMORE
Organization
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE SMORE
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.
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE SMORE
Learning Logs
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE SMORE
Focus Notes
CLICK HERE FOR THE SMORES
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
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE SMORE
Charting the Text
CLICK HERE TO ACCESS THE SMORE