What do students do in AVID? 

• Unit One: Career Exploration

  • Creating a resume; writing cover letters 

  • Personality profile and interest surveys

  • Researching job postings

  • Career research and presentations 

  • Discussions of hot-topic issues shaping future careers 

  • Roadtrip Nation documentaries

• Unit Two: College Exploration

  • Researching and identifying colleges of interest

  • Comparing academic programs within colleges 

  • SAT preparation 

  • Completing the Common App

  • Writing the college essay 

• Unit Three: Financial Aid 

  • Understanding grants, loans, scholarships

  • Analyzing financial aid award letters 

  • Assistance completing the FAFSA (if needed) 

  • Debating student loan forgiveness and free tuition programs 

• Unit Four: Navigating College

  • Analyzing a college syllabus

  • Understanding college scheduling - General education classes, majors, minors, dual majors

• Unit Five: College Survival

  • Identifying key differences between high school and college

  • Adapting note-taking skills to a college lecture

  • Tackling challenging level texts

  • Socratic Seminars

  • Time management

  • Study techniques

  • Basic concepts of logic and rhetoric