The AVID College Readiness System

AVID Elementary

AVID for

Higher

Education

AVID Secondary

AVID’s mission is to close the achievement gap by

preparing all students for college

readiness and success in a global society.

Schoolwide AVID

AVID is schoolwide when a strong AVID implementation transforms a school’s

LEADERSHIP,

SYSTEMS,

INSTRUCTION,

and CULTURE,

ensuring college readiness for all students in the AVID elective and improved academic performance for all students based on increased opportunities.

What Matters in Student Learning?

Pascarella and Terenzini (2011):

• Encounters with challenging ideas and people

• Active engagement with those challenges

• Supportive environments

• Meaningful, real-world activities

• Relational, interpersonal activities

• Opportunities for reflection and analysis

College-Prepared vs. College-Ready

College Preparedness

College preparatory

courses

AP® courses

Competitive GPA

Community service

Extracurricular

activities

Student leadership

College Readiness

Strategic readers

Read and write

academically

Employ multiple

deep reading

strategies

Analyze prompts

Read for multiple

purposes

More of What We Know…

Students continue to move through secondary

education deficient in reading and writing.

• Students are placed in remedial coursework based on

entrance exams. Proficient – SAT: 550 on Critical

Reading; SAT Writing: 680; ACT Writing: 24; AP

Language and Literature exams: 3 or more.

Research tells us that students are college-prepared,

but not college-ready.

AVID is the Great Equalizer.

AVID closes the achievement

gap for all students

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WICOR

Daily or Block Schedule

AVID Curriculum Includes:

Writing Curriculum

College and Careers

Strategies for Success

Critical Reading

Socratic Seminars

AVID Tutorials Include:

ESTABLISHING THE POINT OF

CONFUSION

TRULY Collaborative Study Groups

Writing Groups

A Sample Week in the AVID Elective

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

AVID

Curriculum

Tutorials AVID

Curriculum

Tutorials Binder

Evaluation

Field Trips

Media Center

Speakers

Motivational

Activities

(within block)

Critical Reading Process

Pre-read

Interact with the text

Extend beyond the text

Plan for reading

Students

engage

rigorous

texts!

•Almost 35 years of success in

helping students make the college

dream a reality

•700,000 students served by AVID in

46 states, 16 countries including

Canada and Australia

•AVID in Riverside has a 96% college

acceptance rate

• Your student will have to take college entrance exams

• PSAT –cost about $15.00 each time taken--Taken in 9th

10th and 11th grades in the fall as preparation for the

SAT—district is paying for all 10th graders

• Explore and Plan–about $12.00 each taken in the 9th

and 10th grades as preparation for the ACT

• SAT—register with the College Board—typically taken

in the Spring of the Junior year and Fall of the Senior

year.

• ACT –register with ACT.org--typically taken in the

Spring of the Junior year and Fall of the Senior year

• Now there is for SAT/ACT and AP test prep

Work with your student to make a college goal poster and put

it up on your refrigerator or in the bathroom or in the

bedroom.

• Plan – Essential Question

• Build Vocabulary – Total Physical Response

• Pre-Read – Chapter Tour - Charts, Graphs,

and Photographs

• Interact with Text – Cornell Notes,

Dialectical Response, Storyboard, and

Graphic Organizer

• Extend the Text

Application of Critical Reading Process

Fresh Air, continued

• Crumple up your paper into a ball. Throw it

across the room.

• Find somebody else’s paper ball and return to

your table.

• Share with a partner.