This strand is designed for schoolwide content teachers to support academic language and literacy in elementary through higher education classroom settings. Participants will connect WICOR (Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading) with intentional language development practices and routines to strengthen listening, speaking, reading, and writing literacy for all students. AVID Schoolwide team members will gain insight and align philosophies to help their students navigate rigorous content, achieve academically, and adequately prepare for career success.
Prerequisite: None
Curriculum: AVID Academic Language and Literacy: A Schoolwide Approach

AVID’s guiding principle around the “why” of STEM is to ensure diversity of representation in STEM by providing opportunities for students to develop confidence and competence in rigorous coursework and experiences, keeping them engaged in STEM coursework through the years and inspiring them to pursue STEM in their postsecondary journeys.

This strand creates the foundation for that vision by showing participants how to support, encourage, and empower STEM literacy for all students. STEM-literate students may not all become STEM professionals, but they should understand STEM as currently defined by AVID and be able to leverage that knowledge effectively across their everyday lives, future careers, voting decisions, and overall life choices. AVID’s current working definition for STEM is, “Identifying, applying, and integrating concepts from within and across science, technology, engineering, and mathematics in order to understand and solve complex real-world problems.”

The STEM Elementary strand offers our partners professional learning that can be taken back to the classroom to provide students in grades 3–5 with rigorous, multidisciplinary, hands-on STEM experiences. Strand participants will work together to better understand STEM as both an integrated subject area and a pedagogy, to practice hands-on applications of STEM through a variety of design-based activities, and to understand how to identify real-world problems that can be woven into a variety of curriculum and teaching contexts. Educators will leave equipped to better identify, apply, and teach STEM content and materials through an authentic, integrated approach at their unique educational settings.

• Acceptable devices include laptops, Chromebooks, Surface devices, iPad Pros, and iPads
• Unacceptable devices include mini iPads, Kindle or Galaxy tablets, and smartphones

This strand is designed for AVID administrators, coordinators, AVID Elective teachers, and Site Team members who are ready to work with their sites to conduct self-examination and address issues of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, and accountability through a growth mindset. The strand will provide a framework of effective methodologies that validate the cultures of all students in the classroom and on the campus. These research-based strategies will enhance the site’s curriculum and help students make relevant learning connections to increase subject-matter comprehension. After attending this strand, participants will understand how to create multidimensional lessons while incorporating rigor for various learning styles. Come ready to engage with colleagues in community-building activities and critical conversations around race, gender, class, sexual orientation, ability, and language, as well as other culturally relevant topics, all designed to equip participants with practical strategies for transforming educators in our classrooms, schools, and districts.
Prerequisite: None
Curriculum: AVID Culturally Relevant Teaching: A Schoolwide Approach

AVID Digital Teaching and Learning Foundations strands are best suited to participants whose school or district are in the early stages (planning through the first three years) of 1:1 technology implementation. If you are in a district that has been on the 1:1 journey for four or more years, the Advancing strands are an appropriate fit.

Learning is a story. Educators in the Digital Teaching and Learning—Advancing: Google strand will learn how to gather, organize, and share the story of their learning with the world using AVID’s writing process and digital storytelling strategies. This strand integrates Google tools with AVID methodologies to prepare students with key skills they will need in the 21st century to be college and career ready. Participants will use AVID’s digital learning framework, the 4 A’s (Adopt, Adapt, Accelerate and Advocate), to support best teaching practices for integrating G-Suite for Education apps, Chrome extensions, and WICOR for the purpose of enhancing and extending student learning.

Participants must bring their device, power cord, and earbuds/headphones with them to the strand. If a district-issued device is being used, be sure to log in to the device on the district network before attending. Device software and web browsers need to be up to date.

• Acceptable devices include laptops, Chromebooks, Surface devices, iPads, and iPad Pros.
• Unacceptable devices include mini iPads, Kindle or Galaxy tablets, and smartphones.

This strand is reserved for first-year AVID Elective classroom teachers and AVID coordinators who teach the AVID Elective class and may also coordinate the AVID College Readiness System at their school site. This strand focuses on WICOR (Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading) strategies used to implement the AVID curriculum and the skills needed to effectively advocate for AVID students and AVID Schoolwide in order to provide increased college readiness opportunities for all students.
Participants must bring a device, power cord, and earbuds/headphones with them to the strand. If a district-issued device is being used, be sure to log in to the device on the district network before attending. Device software and web browser need to be up to date.

• Acceptable devices include laptops, Chromebooks, Surface devices, iPads, and iPad Pros.
• Unacceptable devices include mini iPads, Kindle or Galaxy tablets, and smartphones.

This strand will focus on strategies for integrating writing as a learning tool into every grade level and content area. Participants will also explore the power of metacognitive writing to promote student growth and autonomy and take a deep dive into focused note-taking, a powerful component to learning that must be taught and scaffolded across grade levels and disciplines. This strand is perfect for any educator who wants to unleash the power of writing to help students access rigorous content and deepen their understanding through the frequent use of robust learning through writing strategies.
Prerequisite: None
Curriculum: AVID Writing for Disciplinary Literacy: A Schoolwide Approach

This strand focuses on implementing research-based reading practices across all content areas and grade levels to promote a schoolwide approach to disciplinary literacy. Participants will learn how to approach reading as a content expert, empowering student inquiry through reading in their specific content area. Intentionally integrating academic thinking skills and the gradual release of responsibility model into the reading process ensures all students have the college and career readiness skills necessary for thriving in the 21st century. This strand is ideal for educators who want to increase the level of academic rigor and discourse in their classrooms through literacy and the implementation of technology to further student learning.
Participants must bring a device, power cord, and earbuds/headphones with them to the strand. If a district-issued device is being used, be sure to log in to the device on the district network before attending. Device software and web browser need to be up to date.

• Acceptable devices include laptops, Chromebooks, Surface devices, iPads, and iPad Pros.
• Unacceptable devices include mini iPads, Kindle or Galaxy tablets, and smartphones.