AVID Professional Learning
AVID’s professional learning is built around high-quality Communities of Practice designed to meet the diverse needs of educators, incorporating multiple learning styles and schedules.
Summer Experiences
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In-Person Learning – 12 Locations
AVID Summer Institute is a 3-day, high-touch, interactive community experience featuring a rigorous curriculum that promotes student achievement at the highest levels and lays out a pathway to student success. Based on the teacher-developed, classroom-proven AVID College and Career Readiness Framework, Summer Institute models AVID Professional Learning Practices, best-practice district/site leadership, and classroom instruction for teachers, administrators, academic counselors, career advisors, and anyone who wants to help students fulfill their potential and successfully prepare for college and career.
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Live-Facilitated Virtual Learning
AVID Ignite is a virtual or hybrid summer professional learning event. It combines best-in-class, focused virtual learning with resources for virtual or on-site planning and inspiration so that educators can start the school year ready to collectively implement best practices that prepare every student to live a life of possibility. AVID Ignite enables AVID members to combine the flexibility and efficiency of virtual learning with the inspiration, energy, and momentum that results when educators from a district or site gather together to celebrate successes and collaboratively develop AVID implementation plans for the school year ahead.
Year-Round Experiences
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In-Person Learning – Regions and Districts
AVID Path to Schoolwide trainings are 2-day, 12-hour trainings offered regionally and within districts. AVID Path to Schoolwide trainings feature a rigorous curriculum that promotes student achievement at the highest levels and lays out a pathway to student success. Based on the teacher-developed, classroom-proven AVID College and Career Readiness Framework, Path to Schoolwide trainings model AVID Professional Learning Practices, best-practice district/site leadership, and classroom instruction for teachers, administrators, academic counselors, career advisors, and anyone who wants to help students fulfill their potential and successfully prepare for college and career.
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Live-Facilitated Virtual Learning
AVID ElevateXP is a differentiated, digital professional learning experience designed to empower all elementary through higher education educators to create an engaging community of learners by preparing them to scaffold student success with rigorous content in a blended learning environment. AVID ElevateXP offers learning experiences to help educators gain new teaching strategies, tools, resources, and support that amplify best practices. Each session comprises four, 3-hour modules for 12 hours of learning, and modules may be scheduled consecutively, days apart, or weeks apart. Participants are able to stay connected through synchronous and asynchronous opportunities.