AVID ACCOLADES

Enjoy these highlights as we celebrate the possibilities and AVID impact this school year has to offer. We are so thankful for the work of our scholars and educators!

Congratulations to Diana Larsen, our AVID coordinator at Berkner High School, for being honored with Teacher of the Year!

Congratulations to Faith Riedesel, our AVID coordinator at RISD Academy, for the honor of being named Teacher of the Year!!

Give me an W- Wonder and Ask

In the AVID System that looks like-

Essential Questions

Low Risk opportunities for student to experiment and critically think

Did-Learned-Interested-Questions response

Ticket out the Door

Know-Wonder-Learned-Apply Charts

Depth and Complexity Icons

Costa's Levels of Inquiry

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:

Students who write, deepen their understanding of the content, communicate their thinking as a content expert, competently and confidently.

Apollo students engaged in writing/editing stations.

Yale sixth graders utilize sentence frames to break down barriers as they respond to questions.

RISD Academy students writing responses to their reading.

Northrich 4th graders writing poems using sensory details.

Students who inquire clarify their own thinking, probe other's thinking and solve authentic problems.

Aikin students experimenting

DLIQ reflection on what we have learned through out the week.

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.

Pearce student collaborative study groups

Aikin 2nd graders collaborate in a carousel brainstorm to work on their phonics.

Collaboration, lab roles, inquiry and a fun experiment!

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.

HPPM students organize their progress to track their goals in their AVID data folders.

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.

Aikin 1st graders mark the text to be able to answer their essential question.

MST students mark the text with purpose.

Yale 3rd graders marking their poetry so that they can analyze and infer.

Students and teachers showing off how they utilize WICOR at Wallace during their AVID Winter WICOR Wonderland! Thank you LHHS for representing and answering questions for our community about AVID at the secondary levels.

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.

LHHS Senior Class Officers added awareness to their H Building Steps

MST students processing what their pathway could look like on the road to becoming CCMR Ready.

Aikin students are exposed to this beautiful billboard bringing awareness of the colleges that are out there.

LHHS acceptances are coming in! Lots of choices for these seniors as they begin making decisions for life after high school.

Apollo 8th graders completed College boxes as they researched different facts.

West 7th graders toured UTD and learned that they need a GPA of 3.5 or higher for admission.

Berkner HS AVID ambassadors talk to Richland 6th graders about AVID and the impact it has had on their life!

Pearce hosts PHJH and North JH to showcase what opportunities Pearce has to offer!

AVID Alumni from RHS participated in the AVID National Conference on the Alumni Panel. Congratulations Lisett, Amber and Austin.

See how we are utilizing our CHOICE Days in the AVID Elective.

Pearce Study Groups prepping for Exams

Apollo 7th graders hear from Chick Fil A guest speaker about what qualities are hirable in teens.

5th graders process their story at Be the Change.

Proud to announce that RISD has 24 Dell Scholar Semi Finalists. These 24 will work on their essays and interviews and are in the running to receive $20,000! So far in RISD, we have had 97 Dell Scholars over the years!

All 6th graders will have the opportunity to visit their feeder pattern Junior High to hear about all the elective opportunities. During this visit, AVID will share about the AVID Elective. We appreciate our counselors and teachers as they support our sixth graders making choices that will impact their future.

Reach out! We love hearing about how AVID is impacting your campus and students.