Best Practices Towards Success:

  • Maintain enrollment in college preparatory classes
  • Maintain a notebook with class and text notes for each academic course
  • Maintain assignment sheets for each subject and complete tutorial formsÌýfor all AVID tutorial sessions
  • Take at least one page of notes in every class each day
  • Spend two hours per night on homework and study
  • Maintain satisfactory citizenship and attendance in all classes
  • Complete AVID assignments including writing and speaking tasks
  • Participate in AVID tutorials
  • Take the PSAT/SAT at least once
  • Attend the AVID field trips during and after school
  • Maintain at least a 2.0 grade point average
  • Increase academic rigor by enrolling in and successfully completing at least one Pre-AP/AP or IB class in one or more of the core curriculum areas (English, Math, Social Studies, Science) each year

     

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Writing

  • ​Focused Notes/Cornell Notes
  • Learning Logs
  • Quickwrites
  • Reflections
  • Process Writing
  • Peer Evaluation
  • Authentic Writing
  • Summaries
Inquiry

  • Skilled Questioning
  • Costa’s Levels of Thinking
  • Socratic Seminars
  • Tutorials
  • Investigations
  • Guiding/Essential Questions
Collaboration

  • Socratic Seminars
  • Tutorials
  • Philosophical Chairs
  • Group Activities and Projects
  • Peer Editing
  • Sharing
Organization

  • Binders
  • Interactive Notebooks
  • Calendars and Planners
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Focused Notes/Cornell Notes
  • Tutorials and Study Groups
  • Project Planning and SMART Goals
Reading

  • Critical Reading
  • Marking the Text
  • Focused Notes/Cornell Notes
  • Graphic Organizers
  • Vocabulary Building
  • Summaries
  • Reciprocal Teaching

Click to download Student Resources

30 Second Speech Academic Language Script one pager ÌýAcademic Language Scripts in Spanish
ÌýAssignment Log ÌýAVID Community Service Form ÌýAVID Freshmen Mentor Commitment Form
ÌýAVID Mandatory Tutorials for probation ÌýBinder Check off sheet ÌýCommon Abbreviations
ÌýCornell Note Slip ÌýCornell Note Taking ppt ÌýCornell Notes Template
ÌýE6-Costa Level of Inquiry - Vocabulary ÌýLearning Log Questions ÌýLearning Log
ÌýMarking the Text ÌýStudy Buddy Contract ÌýSocratic Seminar Guidelines
ÌýTRF blank reflection ÌýTRF Ex Plus notes ÌýTRF Think-A-Loud
ÌýTutorial Expectations ÌýTutorial Costas Levels ÌýTutorial 10 Steps
ÌýStudent Contract from my AVID Ìý Ìý