Consider who you are registering for summer professional learning. What Communities of Practice will they attend?
Principals & Site Coordinators, Are You Ready to Lead?
We are offering an opportunity for site and district leaders to attend a Leading Site Teams session before AVID Summer Institute to prepare them to lead their team. Virtual offerings begin in May and there is a Day 0 Pre-Session at every AVID Summer Institute. See Leading Site Teams for more information.
Site Team Updates
Site Teams at Summer Institute 2026
Site Team time at 2026 Summer Institutes will include three opportunities for partners. During the afternoon of Days 1 & 2, partners will be grouped as follows to engage in learning that supports their role.
- New Sites and New Districts: Foundations of Site Teams - New sites and new districts will engage in a facilitated experience to set the foundations for the work of the Site Team and begin the goal-setting process.
- Experienced Sites and Districts: Site Team Planning - Experienced sites will engage in self-guided work based on whether or not they are restarting their Site Team or have an established Site Team. We encourage site administrators and site coordinators to facilitate this learning for their site.
- Individual Participants: Reflection and Networking - Individuals not attending with a Site Team will engage in a facilitated experience that includes reflection and networking to focus on applying their CoP learning in their role.
Reach out to your Implementation Strategist if you have any questions about this afternoon pathway.
Action Items for AVID Summer Institute 2026
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 instruments 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.
