AVID Community Newsletter

AVID presents three exclusive on-demand webinars, each offering a unique AVID perspective and packed with resources and insights. Presented by AVID experts, these recordings are designed to enrich your understanding of AVID in an easily accessible format and cover three main topics: Discover AVID, Rediscover AVID, and Funding AVID.

Discover AVID
This introductory webinar explores our mission, history, theory of action, impact, and exciting professional learning offerings. This is a fantastic resource to share with anyone new to AVID!

Rediscover AVID
This informative webinar is designed to refresh returning AVID partners and educators on all things AVID, providing a comprehensive overview of enhancements, additions, and updates. If you want to stay in the loop about the latest AVID updates, we recommend you tune in.

Funding AVID
This webinar offers extensive guidance, valuable insights, and a wealth of resources to address your funding inquiries and effectively overcome funding challenges. This recording aims to provide clarity to those unsure about how to fund AVID or looking to revisit their strategy.

As the seasons change this fall, make room for new knowledge to take root and flourish! Join us October 4–5 for AVID Ignite Special Fall Edition—a virtual professional learning experience designed to support your school’s success. Whether you've got unused Ignite registrations from your 2023–2024 AVID Agreement or new staff members to train, this special edition is the perfect opportunity to connect with AVID. Equip your team with powerful AVID strategies and best practices to enrich your campus-wide learning.

Experience the best of AVID's expertise condensed into a dynamic 2-day format with flexibility to fit your schedule. Choose from 31 Communities of Practice, dive into 12 hours of transformative learning, and tap into exclusive AVID Ignite educator agency sessions. Equip your team with tools that will make a lasting impact throughout the entire school year. Don’t miss out!

The next chance to leverage your 2023–2024 AVID Ignite registrations won't roll around until next summer, and remember, they expire in December of 2024. Have you used up all your Ignite registration? If so, no worries—you can easily add more through MyAVID. Prepare for a year of excellence, fresh insights, and actionable strategies to pave the way for AVID success in 2024–2025.

In a little over 2 months, educators from across the country will gather in San Diego—AVID's hometown—for our annual AVID National Conference! Take advantage of Early Bird cost-savings and register for 3 days filled with networking, collaborative learning, inspiration, and more! Our NatCon webpage is packed with information and details about the exciting schedule we have planned for you. Secure your spot before NatCon fills up—it's one of AVID's most popular events!

With nearly 100 concurrent sessions, exciting guest speakers, pre-conference events, and the flexibility to tailor your experience, there's something at NatCon for every educator. Join us for a powerful mid-year boost, reinvigorating mindset and educational practice with actionable insights and takeaways that can be applied as you and your team head into the second half of the school year.

As AVID members, you can enjoy reduced NatCon pricing and maximize your savings with our conference incentives.

Conference Incentives

$100 off each registration for teams of three or more from the same school.
50% off the registration rate for AVID National Demonstration School participants (including their District Directors).
Free registration for district superintendents and college/university presidents.

Please note: Only one incentive can be applied for any individual participant. The incentive applied will be the one with the greatest financial benefit to the district. These incentives do not apply to AVID Path to Schoolwide^® or AVID ElevateXP^® registration.

AVID Elective 9–12 and AVID Excel Elective 7–8 educators can harness the incredible power of Instructional AI in the AVID classroom for the 2023–2024 school year! Complete your training to access Instructional AI and ongoing support throughout the year. Instructional AI will be integrated into numerous AVID Weeks at a Glance lessons and digital planning guides—12 of each—making it easy to get started. Sign up for training today!

Interested in Instructional AI for Additional Classes? If you would like to purchase instructional AI for classes outside of the AVID Elective for grades 9–12 and the AVID Excel Elective for grades 7–8, sign up to learn more about special pricing for AVID partners.

The Learning Programs, Products, and Services Team (LPPS) has shared Key Updates in your MyAVID account. An LPPS Key Update is a change or shift in practices and/or resources that internal and external partners should be aware of to support their implementation of the AVID College and Career Readiness System. The LPPS team will share Key Updates after summer professional learning and again after AVID National Conference. Upon logging in to MyAVID, a pop-up to review Key Updates will appear. Please log in and review the LPPS Key Updates for the following:

AVID Mission Statement
AVID College and Career Readiness Framework
SLANT to GROW
AVID Essential Skills PreK–12
AVID Essential Skills: Elementary Descriptors

We're excited to launch the remainder of WAG Term 1 units, now accessible through the new WAG website (be sure to watch the new walkthrough video for a tour of the site and the lesson and unit setup). This revitalized content includes units on Completing and Assessing the TRF, College and Career, Goal Setting, and Assessing Organization. As a reminder, these WAG units are aligned with our revised AVID Elective Standards (which take effect in 2024–2025) and include Google formats for most unit resources.

The current WAG will remain available on MyAVID during this transition period to ensure partners have the option of both WAG curriculum and ensure minimal disruption in instruction for the AVID Elective.

The WAG Term units for Terms 1 and 2 will roll out onto the new WAG website monthly during the fall of 2023. The remaining terms will be available during the 2024–2025 school year:

WAG Term 1: Available August 1 and September 1, 2023
WAG Term 2: Available October 1 and November 1, 2023
WAG Term 3: Available Fall 2024
WAG Term 4: Available Winter 2025

For a guide to implementing the new WAG terms, view our WAG one-pager for recommendations designed for AVID educators at every experience level.

We are encouraging schools and districts to participate in the fall administration of the AVID Collective Educator Agency Survey and the AVID Student Agency Survey. Sign up your campus or district to be contacted with next steps.

The AVID Collective Educator Agency Survey takes approximately 5 minutes to complete and provides insight into the extent to which educators on a campus take intentional actions based on shared beliefs and trust that, together, they can increase opportunity and measurable success for all students and each other. The Student Agency Survey takes approximately 6–7 minutes to complete and helps educators understand the extent to which students build relationships, persist through obstacles, and activate academic and social-awareness skills. AVID Center will provide participants with a school-level summary report that includes an overall summary of national findings.

Participation in these surveys will provide information that is directly aligned with several Indicators of the Coaching and Certification Instrument. Site Teams can use these data to inform targeted efforts to increase their implementation fidelity.

We encourage you to review the user guide for each survey by clicking the links below:

Please direct any questions to Jeff Huerta, Research Analyst, at jhuerta@avid.org.

Introducing Our On-Demand Webinar Series!
Explore Three New 30-Minute Recordings

Join Us October 4–5 for AVID Ignite Fall Special Edition!

AVID NatCon 2023: Enjoy Discounted Pricing Through October 30!
Join Us November 28–30

Friendly Reminder: Accessing Instructional AI

Learning Programs, Products, and Services Key Updates: October 2023

New AVID Weeks at a Glance (WAG) Units Uploaded to Term 1:
WAG Revision Project Update

Fall 2023 Collective Educator Agency and Student Agency Surveys

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