Advancement Via Individual Determination

What is AVID?

• Teaches skills and behaviors for academic success
• Provides intensive support with tutorials and strong student/teacher relationships
• Creates a positive peer group for students
• Develops a sense of hope for personal achievement gained through hard work and determination

Dulles is excited to bring AVID to our 4th and 5th grade students!  Over the last 30 years AVID has proven that, when given a system of rigorous curriculum and strategic support, students can be academically successful.  AVID Elementary is a foundational component of AVID’s mission and vision to provide a comprehensive model of success for all students, from elementary through higher education.

AVID Elementary is designed to be embedded into the daily instruction in the classroom.  AVID focuses on four areas to ensure that all students are poised for academic success:  Instruction, Culture, Leadership, and Systems.  

AVID incorporates:  

Student Success Skills – encompassing communication skills (e.g. listening, speaking, writing), self-advocacy skills, note-taking strategies, critical thinking and study skills.

Organizational Skills – both mental and physical; students learn to use organizational tools, as well as learn and practice skills around time management and goal-setting.

WICOR Lessons – emphasize instruction on Writing to learn, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading to learn in all content areas.

Partnerships – among students, classrooms, grade levels, schools, families, and communities.  

Third, fourth and fifth grade Dolphins are learning organization and responsibility through the implementation of AVID.  The objective of AVID is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students for college readiness and success in a global society.  This is accomplished by teaching student success skills, organizational skills, Writing to Learn, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization and Reading to Learn (WICOR.)  Students are responsible for putting forth their best effort, personal ownership, maintaining an updated agenda, and arriving at school prepared to learn.  The teacher is responsible for providing consistent expectation, organized lessons, a weekly schedule, purposeful lessons and to arrive at work prepared to teach.