AVID 9

Laying Down the Foundation

Fresh-People


  • Learn the basics of high school Reading and Writing


  • Practice Inquiry through philosophical chairs, socratic seminars, and higher-level thinking that prepares our students for college and beyond.


  • Weekly tutorials: Students, guided by college-age tutors, collaborate to solve their “Point of Confusion” for any of their core classes.


  • Organizational checks: Weekly binder, agenda, and backpack checks


  • Study Techniques: Focus-Note Taking, Annotating and Marking up the text, Finding Text-Based evidence, etc.


  • Learn to advocate for yourself


  • Get involved in clubs and other extracurricular activities

  • Vocabulary building