Advancement via Individual

Education
 The AVID curriculum is focused on WICOR strategies (Writing, Inquiry,
Collaboration, Organization, Reading). See the description of each below.

Writing Collaboration Reading

 Cornell Note taking  Socratic Seminars  Close Reading Strategies
 Learning Logs  Philosophical Chairs  Cornell Notes
 Peer editing  Summaries
 Quickwrites
 Tutorials
 Reflections Inquiry  Team Building
Organization
 One-Pagers
 Costa’s Higher-Level
Questions  Binders
 Skilled questioning  Agendas
techniques  One binder system
 Dividers for every subject
 Tutorials
 Text Dependent
Questions
 Expectations
-All students will submit a signed AVID contract at the
beginning of the school year

-Follow the 4 R’s (Respect, Responsibility, Ready to

Learn, & Re-Thinking) in all classes and on the bus.
-Complete all homework assignments in all classes and
AVID students are not allowed to have office or bus
commit to a minimum of two hours of homework each
referrals. (3 Minor incidents are equivalent to an office
night.
referral)
-Earn a grade point average of 2.5 or higher in all
-Maintain satisfactory attendance and be on time to
classes.
all classes.
-Turn in weekly AVID Class work.
-Organize and carry a 3” AVID binder to organize
materials for all classes. Students must bring their 3”
-Research and present a College or Career project.
binder to AVID class for binder checks.
-Students and parents will sign up for the free app/text
-Students will write their daily homework assignments
service Remind.com
in their agenda
• 6th Grade- Arlington Echo Teambuilding
(Rain or Shine); National Cryptologic
Museum

• 7th Grade- College visit; Bowie Baysox

College Fair

• 8th Grade- National College Fair-Baltimore,

College visit; Bowie Baysox College Fair