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Post date: Nov 11, 2015 2:19:33 PM
In November's AVID Newsletter you'll find information on KHS Staff participation in AVID-Style Tutorials, KHS AVID Students' attendance at WeDay, VVE 4th Grader's trip to the Minnesota History Center, the Walmart Grant Award, the WICOR strategy of Text-Dependent Inquiry, AVID professional development opportunities, and upcoming AVID Events in the area.
Spotlight on AVID
Kennedy Staff Participate in AVID-Style Tutorials
Kennedy Students Attend WeDay
During the October Professional Development day, Kennedy staff viewed this 12th Grade AVID tutorial video and participated in tutorial groups where they took turns presenting a lesson for feedback about how to make it more culturally responsive.
Valley View Elementary 4th Graders Visit the Minnesota History Center
WeDay is a celebration of youth making a difference in their communities. Students earned their tickets by taking one local and one global action through We Schools, a yearlong educational program that engages and empowers young people to become compassionate leaders and active citizens.
Good News!
Bloomington's AVID program has been awarded a $2000 Walmart Community Grant to support the continued work being done with VVE, VVM, and KHS 4th - 12th graders in helping to prepare them for college and career in our rapidly changing global society.
AVID Resources
AVID Weekly Article of the Month
Elementary: Ice Worms' Survival Secrets Could Help Humans
The article “Ice worms’ survival secrets could help humans” describes the ice worm, its unique survival mechanism and how it could potentially benefit human health.
Secondary: College Kids Have Too Much Privacy
The article “College kids have too much privacy” argues that the Family Rights and Privacy Act might not be the kind of protection that college students need after-all.
All AVID Weekly articles, lesson plans and activities are archived monthly and are available in the following Google Folders for anyone to access and use:
WICOR Strategy of the Month
The attached and linked resource provides leveled question stems and examples for ALL content areas to help students engage more deeply with text.
Traits of Effective Critical Readers
- Expect the reading to make sense.
- Make predictions and form good hypotheses about the text’s meaning before they begin to read.
- Understand the purpose for reading and adjust their rate and reading techniques to fit the purpose.
- Organize information while they read.
- Form mental pictures while they read.
- Ask (and try to answer) questions while they read.
- Monitor how well they comprehend as they go along and are aware when the text stops making sense.
- Have strategies for figuring out the text when it stops making sense.
- Recognize the main idea of the text.
- Identify patterns in a text.
- Read for global meaning (not word by word).
- Summarize/paraphrase what they have read.
- Make connections between the reading and their lives, other texts, or the world.
- Trace an author’s argument or reasoning, citing the author’s evidence.
- Identify the structure of the text and how the structure supports the author’s purpose.
AVID Support and Events
Upcoming AVID Professional Development Opportunities
FREE AVID School Showcases in our area
March 9: McGuire Middle School, Lakeville, MN
Online AVID Support
Daily/weekly elective class lesson plans
Informational/instructional videos, handouts and downloads covering many AVID Essentials, including Writing, Inquiry, Tutorials, Data and Site Teams.
A time-sensitive support and collaboration forum for AVID Elective Teachers and Site Coordinators, providing an opportunity to collaborate with other coordinators and teachers from all over the country about issues and topics affecting their students and classes right now.
This web meeting allows coordinators and teachers a wide variety of dates and times to choose from to best fit their schedules.
*If you would like access to any of these resources and do not currently have an account on my.avid.org, contact Kelly Killorn
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