AVID: ADVANCEMENT VIA INDIVIDUAL DETERMINATION

• Regardless of their life circumstances, AVID students overcome obstacles and achieve success. They graduate and attend college at higher rates, but more importantly, they can think critically, collaborate, and set high expectations to confidently conquer the challenges that await them.
• In 47 states across the U.S., K–16 educators are driving student success through engaging, rigorous, and student-centered learning environments. Explore how AVID can help your school achieve its strategic goals.

Secondary Level

Our nation’s schools are full of students who possess a desire to go to college and the willingness to work hard, but many of them do not truly have the opportunity to be college-ready. These are often the students who will be the first in their families to attend college and are from groups traditionally underrepresented in higher education. AVID Secondary equips teachers and schools with what they need to help these students succeed on a path to college and career success.

To address this need, AVID has developed the AVID Elective course. For one period a day, students receive the additional academic, social, and emotional support that will help them succeed in their school’s most rigorous courses. Districts have the flexibility to decide how many AVID Elective classes to start and which grade levels will implement AVID first. Additionally, in middle school, the language and literacy needs of long-term English language learners can be addressed through the AVID Excel elective class.

The power of AVID Secondary is the ability to impact students in the AVID Elective class and all students throughout the campus. AVID Secondary can have an effect on the entire school by providing classroom activities, teaching practices, and academic behaviors that can be incorporated into any classroom to improve engagement and success for all students. Teachers can take what they've learned at AVID training back to any classroom to help all students, not just those in AVID, to become more college- and career-ready.

Higher Education

AVID for Higher Education (AHE) works with two-year and four-year colleges and universities to implement a holistic approach to accelerating student success. Partner colleges and universities have flexibility and choices in how they leverage AHE's approach on their campus. AVID provides customized coaching and professional learning for faculty and staff alike that integrates with and accelerates student success initiatives already underway on a campus.

Using practices based on research and third-party evaluations, AHE offers engaging and practical professional learning for faculty to improve their pedagogy while respecting their academic freedom. Professors and adjunct professors learn high engagement instructional practices and activities they can immediately incorporate into their classrooms. Data indicate that when they do this, student success increases.

As part of their holistic offerings, AHE works with instructors and counselors on developing or strengthening first-year experience courses to help students improve their transition to campus and hone their organizational and study skills. To further increase student success, AHE also collaborates with student services to create an effective peer-to-peer Socratic tutoring approach. By providing students with support structures and academic training, AHE campuses empower students to take ownership of their learning. This comprehensive effort establishes the academic foundation necessary to persist in college.