A System for Success
Multilingual learner success is not a single program decision. It is a system design decision. Every student has a different starting point with 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 flexible entry points, targeted support, and a shared goal: helping multilingual learners build the academic language, confidence, and readiness they need to thrive.
Through AVID Emerge Elementary, AVID Emerge Secondary, AVID Excel, and ELD Summer Bridge, schools and districts can build a connected approach to language development that supports students at critical points in their journey. From everyday instruction to year-long curriculum pathways and extended learning opportunities, the AML Suite helps create continuity rather than disconnected interventions. This is how schools move beyond fragmented supports toward a shared pathway that leads to redesignation, rigorous learning, and long-term success.
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.
Students who enrolled in the AVID Excel Elective in both 7th and 8th grade demonstrated nearly double the reclassification rate in 9th grade compared to similar peers.*
Where to Start
What do your multilingual students need most right now?
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 instruction.
If 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 to school ready to learn.
Compare Your Options
Not sure where to start? Use this comparison to see which option best aligns with your students’ needs.
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.
"In just our second year of implementing AVID Excel® in middle school, about 160 students met the state's criteria for redesignation. It was an amazing surprise to see not only their language development, but also the academic skills they gained to be successful across their core subjects."
— Alfonso Vazquez, Multilingual Coordinator, Middle School
"AVID Emerge gives teachers what they need to empower students in their classrooms at every language proficiency level."
— Jennifer Adair, AVID District Director
