AVID ACCOLADES
October 30, 2024
News, Highlights, and Updates from AVID in RISD
Enjoy these highlights as we celebrate to the possibilities and AVID impact this school year has to offer.
GROW
Give me a R- Review what you know!
What does that look like supported by AVID?
-Tutorial Process
- KWL charts
-Summary of what you learned
-Did-Learned-Interested in-Questions
-Team Huddles
-One Pagers
Student Agency
Students believe in themselves and act intentionally to build relationships, persist through obstacles, and activate their academic, social, emotional, and professional knowledge and skills to reach their potential.
MST students thinking about moving up and creating vision boards for what they want to be as they advance over the years.
Aikin students setting their goals.
HPPM 3rd graders owning their actions and taking responsibility for how they show up to school each day.
Aikin students standing and delivering with confidence what they are learning.
Ambassadors from MST speaking to the leaders of AVID Districts across Texas
Wallace Wolves setting goals!
Stults AVID Ambassadors helped to welcome TI Visitors as they joined their campus and made vision boards with all of the students.
Instruction- WICOR
RISD AVID insists on rigor through WICOR.
Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading supports the teacher's craft, fills their tool box with strategies and allows for opportunities to take the content (what students need to know) and make it engaging, immersing the student into the curriculum (the how).
Explore how WICOR supports the Learning Framework and immerses students in their learning:
Heights 4th grade frames out what students look like when they engage in WICOR!
WRITING
Students who write, deepen their understanding of the content, communicate their thinking as a content expert, competently and confidently.
Yale Writers Workshop
Skyview Words that GLOW!
INQUIRY
Students who inquire clarify their own thinking, probe other's thinking and solve authentic problems.
Do you agree or disagree with the character's actions? Students at Dover participate in a Philosophical Chairs.
NLE students discuss an image and utilize depth and complexity as an inquiry resource.
Collaboration
Students who collaborate listen effectively to decipher meaning, deepen the learning of others through inquiry and active engagement, and work through identified structures and roles to achieve a common goal.
Northrich 4th and 5th graders collaborate on Multiplication Skills
Pearce Students collaborating while they solve logarithmic expressions.
ORGANIZATION
Students who organize develop and use tools to organize their thinking, resources and time effectively to prepare for rigorous courses and engage fully in instruction.
MST students organize their thoughts in a graphic organizer while collaborating.
HPPM- Organize their work into three column notes
READING
Students who read activate, engage, and extend beyond the text, making predictions and understanding text structures so that they can question and engage in deep inquiry.
BHS Junior AVID students read a text about Chat GPT, created questions, and participated in a Socratic Seminar.
RHS students collaboratively read, mark the text and answer questions.
Northrich Bears utilizing their fluency binders
Our AVID coordinator, Faith at RISD Academy, is making her reading curriculum come to life!
MST 6th graders utilizing Plot Diagrams to analyze plot elements.
WICOR Carnival
Berkner Seniors set up a professional learning experience, teaching educators from Berkner, District Leaders from AVID and our District Leadership in RISD about engaging teaching strategies that support them as they learn.
Closing the Opportunity Gap
The mission of AVID is to close the opportunity gap by preparing all students for college and career readiness and success in a global society. These campuses have gone above and beyond to ensure that students set goals and make choices that support long term aspirations by knowing about opportunities in our world after high school.
Forest Lane Academy Showcasing a Career Spotlight Display to bring awareness to the students.
University of Texas at Dallas opened up a new campus and Berkner students got to be some of the first to check out the campus.
LHMS Career Fair
LHHS AVID Seniors visit and have applied to Commerce!
MST Students bring awareness to their Goals on their lockers and have chosen a university and a career plan to think about for their future.
Utilizing Depth and Complexity icons to increase the inquiry levels of our career research at MST.
West takes 7th and 8th Grade AVID to UTA to experience walking on to their first college campus.
Students at MST using Magic School AI to help their students from 2-6th find out about career paths and colleges that support those paths.
BHS Seniors interested in UNT take a tour of the campus.
Apollo 8th graders had a wonderful experience touring UTD!
CHOICE Days in AVID Elective
What is a CHOICE Day lesson?
A CHOICE Day lesson is: connected to the CCR Framework components, a time for CHOICE:
C: College and career speakers, fairs, and field trips (explore paths and personal fit)
H: Habits and instructional routines (organization, FNT, TAG, goal, and grade checks)
O: Opportunities in our communities (service learning, internships, special events)
I: Inspiring ourselves and others (storytelling and self-identity through emotions, thoughts, and values)
C: Collaboration through the Stages of Building Relational Capacity (build trust through norms, networks, and new perspectives)
E: Exercising our agency (self-advocacy, leadership, and responsible citizenship, including online)
See how we are utilizing our CHOICE Days in the AVID Elective.
Parkhill Junior High AVID elective create 985 Boo Bags for students!
North AVID students presenting their Hispanic Heritage Research
Shout out to our Berkner AVID Coordinator for being chosen TOW!
Berkner, MST and RHS Lead Learning for AVID across Texas and New Mexico
District Leaders from across Texas came to Berkner and MST to learn more about how AVID is making an impact across their campus with students and teachers.
RHS hosted Celina and Hobbs, New Mexico as these districts and campuses seek Demonstration status.
RHS AVID Shoot for the Stars and Represent during the RHS Parade!
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