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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Indian AVID
American
Indian
Asian AVID Asian Black or
African
American
AVID
Black or
African
American
Hispanic or
Lation AVID
Hispanic or
Lation
White (non
Hispanic)
AVID
White (non
Hispanic)
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