Different access points. Targeted support. A shared destination.
A System for Success
Multilingual learner success is not a single program decision. It is a system design decision.
Every student brings a different starting point - different strengths, different needs, and different moments where support matters most. Too often, those supports exist in isolation.
The Advancing Multilingual Learner Suite (AML Suite) brings them together.
Through AVID Emerge Elementary, AVID Emerge Secondary, AVID Excel, and ELD Summer Bridge, schools and districts can build a connected approach to language development - one that strengthens instruction across classrooms, accelerates progress for long-term multilingual learners, and sustains momentum beyond the school year.
This is how schools move beyond fragmented supports toward a shared pathway that leads to redesignation, rigorous learning, and long-term success.
How It Connects
The Advancing Multilingual Learner Suite is built around flexible entry points, targeted support, and a shared goal: helping multilingual learners build the academic language, confidence, and readiness they need to thrive. From classroom instruction to targeted pathways and extended learning, the AML Suite supports students at critical points in their journey.
Each program plays a distinct role in supporting multilingual learners:
- AVID Emerge strengthens everyday instruction through routine-based language support across all proficiency levels.
- AVID Excel provides a structured middle school pathway that accelerates language development and supports redesignation and readiness for rigorous coursework.
- ELD Summer Bridge extends learning beyond the school year, helping students build momentum, confidence, and readiness for what comes next.
Students don’t all need the same support at the same time and they shouldn’t have to. AVID helps schools align supports into a cohesive multilingual learner strategy that grows with students over time.
Where to Start
If your goal is to strengthen language development across elementary and secondary classrooms
AVID Emerge
Support everyday instruction with ready-to-use routines that build academic language across language proficiencies in both designated ELD and integrated content-area instrucIf your goal is to accelerate progress for long-term English learners in middle school
AVID Excel
Provide a structured elective that accelerates language development, supports redesignation and prepares students for rigorous coursework and high school success.
If your goal is to extend learning and build momentum before and beyond the school year
ELD Summer Bridge
Offer targeted summer learning that strengthens language development, builds confidence, and helps students return ready to learn.
Compare Your Options
Not sure where to start? Use this comparison to see which option best aligns with your students’ needs.
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Many schools begin with one entry point and expand over time to layer supports that strengthen language development across the school year, grade levels, and instructional settings.
Research & Evidence
Strong systems are built on evidence as well as experience.
AVID partners with independent researchers and conducts ongoing internal studies to better understand how multilingual learner support impacts student growth, language development, and long-term academic success.
Across the Advancing Multilingual Learner Suite, this research helps illuminate how aligned instruction, targeted pathways, and sustained support contribute to outcomes like redesignation, increased access to rigorous coursework, and college and career readiness.
As new studies emerge, AVID continues to build and share evidence that informs practice, strengthens implementation, and supports more effective decision-making for schools and districts.
