Planning and Leading Site Teams
As a leader, your AVID journey is a story of possibility—of opening doors for students and building a schoolwide culture where every learner is empowered to succeed. Creating that future begins with intentional time invested alongside your AVID Site Team.
Although dedicated Site Team time is not a built‑in component of AVID Virtual Live™, providing teams with opportunities for summer planning and goal setting is essential for high-quality implementation. This guide outlines recommended approaches for scheduling AVID Site Team planning sessions—either immediately before or after AVID Virtual Live or at another time during the summer—to best support your team’s success.
“Leading Site Teams” sessions provide the focused leadership support needed to set meaningful goals and develop a powerful Site Team Plan that brings your AVID vision to life. We encourage site and district leaders—including those participating in AVID Virtual Live—to join a Leading Site Teams session to prepare for this vital work. Synchronous virtual sessions begin in May (see schedule below).
Site Team Overview
What is the AVID Site Team?
The AVID Site Team works to close opportunity gaps and promote college and career readiness for all students by implementing and sustaining AVID throughout their school. The Site Team provides a balanced representation of school leadership and teachers who collaborate to provide access to rigorous content by embedding AVID strategies in classroom instruction, sharing responsibility for student outcomes.
Who is on the Site Team?
The AVID Site Team is led by the principal and AVID Site Coordinator, who provide the strategic vision for AVID at the site and ensure alignment with schoolwide goals. This distributed leadership is essential for a thriving and impactful AVID Site Team.
On secondary campuses, the AVID Site Team consists of the principal, a counselor, the AVID Site Coordinator, the AVID Elective/Excel Elective teacher(s), and at least four core content teachers from different subject areas. Their primary purpose is to support students in the AVID Elective/Excel Elective, ensuring they engage in rigorous learning. AVID students are scheduled in courses with AVID-trained teachers who incorporate AVID strategies into daily instruction.
On elementary campuses, the AVID Site Team consists of the principal, AVID Site Coordinator, and at least one AVID-trained teacher from AVID-implementing grade level(s). They ensure students experience daily rigor through AVID strategies and provide calibrated and articulated instructional practices within and across grade levels.
What is the work of the Site Team?
AVID Site Teams drive schoolwide change by establishing effective teaching practices and collaboration around AVID strategies, using data from the AVID implementation tools and Site and Senior Data forms. They promote rigorous content and instruction through the AVID College and Career Readiness Framework, fostering a college-going and career-ready culture for all students. Site Teams guide AVID implementation on their campuses through the four AVID Schoolwide Domains—Instruction, Systems, Leadership, and Culture—fostering collective educator agency.
Leading Site Teams: Virtual Sessions Schedule
Participants interested in attending any of these sessions can register through MyAVID.
Click on the “Event Registration” tab, and then select “Register myself for an event.” In the Event Type drop-down menu, select “Virtual Leadership Event.”
