National Conference Pre-Conference Sessions

Step into the forefront of educational innovation with AVID! In this session, you’ll be among the first to explore the visionary tools and resources that are reshaping teaching, learning, and student success. Discover cutting-edge updates, including new resources, enhanced professional learning tools, and program quality advancements—all influenced by your invaluable feedback. This session is more than an exclusive preview; it’s an opportunity to collaborate and contribute to AVID’s transformative journey. Join us for this dynamic experience and be part of shaping the future of education. Don’t miss this chance to gain insider access to what’s next with AVID!

You are invited to join this collaborative session designed for both new and experienced AVID Elective and Excel Elective teachers! Through engaging roundtable discussions, educators will connect to share actionable strategies to deepen the successful implementation of the AVID Elective and Excel Elective. This dynamic networking opportunity allows participants to choose discussion topics based on their unique needs and interests, with the flexibility to move between groups throughout the session to support their learning goals. The session will conclude with dedicated time for reflection and planning, empowering participants to identify key takeaways and develop actionable steps to apply their learning in their school or district. Whether you are new to AVID or a seasoned educator, come collaborate, reflect, and leave inspired to enhance student success!

New teachers often enter the classroom eager but overwhelmed—especially when striving to create rigorous, student‑centered learning environments. This session explores how AVID’s Foundations of Instruction (FOI), paired with Get Better Faster coaching practices, can accelerate teacher readiness and build strong classroom culture from day one. Participants will learn how to coach new teachers in establishing high expectations, implementing WICOR‑aligned routines, and building relational capacity with students. Through interactive AVID strategies, scenario analysis, and leadership application time, attendees will leave with replicable tools to support new teachers in creating classrooms grounded in rigor, consistency, and belonging. Whether you support induction, lead professional learning, or coach teachers, this session equips you to strengthen teacher preparation and elevate AVID implementation across your system.

Measuring and monitoring Student Agency and Collective Educator Agency are critical to ensuring that all students and educators are thriving in an environment that contributes to their success. This session will illustrate how districts are using these surveys to achieve noticeable changes in students and educators. We will also introduce a new survey platform with new, shorter, mid-year check-in surveys designed to provide a “temperature check” to support staff conversations about where students are excelling or may need more support. These new processes will streamline engagement and real-time feedback. When these measures are planned for and monitored in contexts of the AVID College and Career Readiness Framework, opportunities to illustrate AVID’s impact and ROI are realized.

This session, geared toward participants who are new to AVID Secondary or are interested in implementing AVID, will focus on how AVID helps educators become more engaged so that students may succeed through college and beyond. Participants will walk away with an understanding of the impact that AVID can make by systematically increasing academic rigor, creating engaging learning environments, accelerating the performance of underrepresented students, and delivering results schoolwide.

This session will provide an introductory overview of AVID Elementary for participants who are planning to implement or are interested in implementing AVID Elementary. Existing AVID Elementary partners are welcome and may pick up some updated information through this session. Participants will learn what college readiness means in an elementary context as well as the relational connection between AVID Elementary and AVID Secondary. The intended audience is district stakeholders (superintendents, curriculum and instruction directors, and District Directors) and elementary or intermediate principals and assistant principals, teachers, and instructional specialists.