"Collaborative learning involves intentionally designed student groups engaged in “co-laboring” toward meaningful learning outcomes, using active engagement activities planned to maximize learning, and facilitating the sharing of the workload (Barkley, Cross, & Major, 2005). AVID’s high-engagement learning strategies involve collaborative activities through which individual students help each other learn and thereby strengthen their own learning. In these activities, students are responsible for their own learning; educators serve as facilitators in a learning community working together for the success of the group." - AVID 2021-2022 Handbook