New Site Teams

Name Staff Developer, Director, Facilitator

Welcome and Introductions

(Include District/Regional Director, Staff Developer assistant and Coordinator names and titles who are facilitating Site Teams here.)

Site Team Spiral Contents

“Redefining College Readiness” David T. Conley

ISS-CSS document Critical Questions

Site Team Agenda for Day 1

Introductions

Review Site Team Outcomes

Acknowledge Your Region’s or District’s Expectations

Review AVID’s Mission Statement to clarify AVID’s schoolwide effect

Goal of AVID Site Team

Opening access to rigorous curriculum

Improving student achievement

Developing an AVID Site Plan

The Goal of the AVID Site Team is to be collaborative and reflective about:

Site Team Meeting Outcomes

Understand the structures and processes needed to implement the AVID Elective course.

Understand AVID as a schoolwide and districtwide program facilitating access and equity to rigorous curriculum for students.

Explore, through discussions, what it means to be an AVID site team member.

Participants will:

Site Team Meeting Outcomes

Identify roles as site team members who share a common mission, vision, values and goals.

Work to facilitate vertical teaming between grade levels and AVID sites.

Use Essential questions to form the basis for developing site plan.

Use the site plan as “a living document” to guide the work surrounding student success in rigorous curriculum.

Participants will:

Norms for Site Team Meetings

For true collaboration to occur and to allow for reflection as a part of the conversation this week, consider:

Allowing everyone to have an equal voice

Committing to focused conversation Suspending any hierarchy Beginning with the end in mind:

A tightly bonded, unified site team with a clear plan for the coming school year.

Looking at the A.V.I.D.

Look again at the acrostic: A dvancementA dvancement V iaV ia I ndividualI ndividual D eterminationD etermination

Which of the words strikes you as most crucial?

Why?

10 minute conversation at tables

The Mission of AVIDThe Mission of AVID

The mission of AVID is to ensure that ALL students, and most especially the least served students who are in the middle:

AVID’s systemic approach is designed to support students and educators as they increase schoolwide/ districtwide learning and performance.

will succeed in rigorous curriculum, will complete a rigorous college preparatory path, will enter mainstream activities of the school, will increase their enrollment in four-year colleges, and will become educated and responsible participants and

leaders in a democratic society.

Mining the Mission

Underline the key words/phrases in the AVID Mission statement

What is the alignment between your school’s mission and the AVID mission? In words In intent

20 minute table conversation and then report out.

The Purposes of the AVID Site Team

1. To develop and work toward schoolwide goals which ensure that all students have equal access to knowledge and mainstream activities of the school

2. To be aware of and act on assumptions and practices at the school that enhance or inhibit equal access

3. To promote the use of instructional methodologies which enhance student access to rigorous curriculum

4. To involve students in discussions about effective learning situations

5. To focus on changes in school organization which need to result as a consequence of new conceptions regarding teaching and learning

6. To ensure the institutionalization of AVID as a schoolwide program

AVID Program Implementation Essentials

1. AVID student selection focuses on students in the middle (2.0 to 3.5 G.P.A. as one indicator) with academic potential, who would benefit from AVID support to improve their academic record and begin college preparation.

2. AVID program participants, both students and staff, choose to participate.

3. The school must be committed to full implementation of the AVID program, with the AVID year-long elective class available within the regular academic school day.

4. AVID students are enrolled in a rigorous course of study that will enable them to meet requirements for university enrollment.

AVID Program Implementation Essentials (continued)

5. A strong, relevant writing and reading curriculum provides the basis for instruction in the AVID elective class.

6. Inquiry is used as a basis for instruction in the AVID classroom.

7. Collaboration is used as a basis for instruction in the AVID classroom.

8. A sufficient number of tutors are available in the AVID class to facilitate student access to rigorous curriculum.

9. AVID program implementation and student progress are monitored through the AVID Data System, and results are analyzed to ensure success.

10. The school or district has identified resources for program costs, has agreed to implement AVID Program Implementation Essentials and to participate in AVID Certification. It has committed to ongoing participation in AVID staff development.

11. An active interdisciplinary site team collaborates on issues of students access to and success in rigorous college preparatory courses.

AVID Program Implementation Essentials (continued)

Essential 11 Site Teams

“An active interdisciplinary site team collaborates on issues of student access to and success in rigorous college preparatory courses.”

Locate the narrative descriptions of AVID Program Implementation Essentials:

Quickwrite (2 minutes)

As a member of the Site Team, how can you realize the Mission of AVID in your school?

The Power of the Site Team

1. Read “The Power of the Site Team” and reflect on the reading as a table group.

2. Reflect on how it applies to your school

3. Pairs choose one purpose statement to analyze

4. Discuss in table groups

Roles and Responsibilities of the AVID Site Team

Read individual role on Site Team Review the roles of site team members including

those not present not present at the table (example: tutor, parent, student, etc.). How can they contribute to work of the site team?

Discuss how your individual role can work as part of a team to create a schoolwide learning community and to collaborate to achieve the mission of AVID (from Essential 11 narrative).

Site Team Activities and Responsibilities

Review Site Team Activities and Responsibilities

Based on Table discussion and reading refine your Quickwrite “As a site team member I will…”

Individuals share their responsibilities orally.

AVID Certification

Popcorn Read: How to Use this Instrument Determining the Level of Implementation

for each Indicator Determining the Level of Implementation Determining the Certification Level of

the School

Format of the Essentials in the CSS

Essential 11 Site Teams

Review Indicator 1 in Essential 11How does the language change

as you read across from level 1 to level 3

Where does your team currently place itself (Level 0, Level 1, ..)

Read Indicators 2 - 7

In Table Groups Discuss:

“What actions will help move the Site Team from your current

level to a 2 or 3?”

Essential 11 – Critical Questions

• What role does the _________ play on the Site Team? (math teacher, counselor, administrator)

• What new contribution could I make to the achievement of AVID and other students as part of the team?

AVID Site Plan State School Year Region/County District Site Principal _____________________________________________Date

Essential #: __________Indicator #: ______________ (For experienced sites, is this recommended for your CSS? ____)

AVID Level of use: Not AVID (Level 0) Meets Certification (Level 1) Routine Use (Level 2) Institutionalization (Level 3)

Critical Question: _____________________________________________________________________

Objective: ___________________________________________________________________________

Outcome Action Timeline Evaluation

What do we want to achieve?

How will we make it happen? What expenditures are necessary? Who needs to be involved

(individuals/committees)?Who will take responsibility to see that this is

accomplished? What is the relationship to district plan(s)? What is the relationship to vertical alignment of ML and HS

curricula in our district?

When will we complete this

task?What will be the

benchmark?

What evidence will we have to demonstrate our success?

Site Team Plan

Use information from quick-writes, responses to the Critical Questions, and the CSS continuum to

1. Practice writing an objective for Essential 11: Site Teams.

2. Share your Objectives with the table next to you.

3. Enter your Objective on the Site Team Plan (page 163)

Day 1 Site Team Slide 18

Strand Check

Homework Read the narrative of all the 11 Essentials

pg. 2-7 for HS or pg. 8-13 for MS.

Be prepared to discuss Essentials 1-4

Return with questions about the reading.

Site Team Agenda Day 2

Making Connections to Strands

Research: Redefining College Readiness

Intro to Site Team Plan and ISS/CSS document

Essentials 1-3 Setting up the AVID Elective class

Developing Objectives for the Plan

Give One, Get One

Write your first name and last initial in the bottom right hand corner of three sticky notes

Write three things (one per sticky note) about what you learned in your strand that you could go back and use in your classrooms immediately.

Give one and get one from three different people.

Research

Write – Pair – Share: Write: “From your experience as a student,

how is college different from high school?” (2 minutes)

Pair – Share with your neighbor

Read the first three paragraphs to Components in a Comprehensive Definition of College Readiness page 12

Write your own definition of “college readiness” (10 minutes)

ResearchRedefining College Readiness

Jigsaw Read:

Key Cognitive Strategies (pages 12-14) Academic Knowledge and Skills (pages 14-16) Academic Behaviors (pages 16-17) Contextual Skills and Awareness ([page 17)

Using the following Critical Reading Strategies1. Underline main ideas

2. Circle or highlight key terms

AVID ESSENTIALS in a NUTSHELL

A Tool for Quick Assessment and Discussion

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1. Student Selection Focus on middle (2.0-3.5)

2. Voluntary Participation By Students and Staff

3. AVID Elective during school day

4. Enrollment in Rigorous Curriculum

5. Writing and Reading Curriculum

6. Inquiry Emphasis

7. Collaboration

8. Trained Tutors

9. Data Collection and Analysis

10. School or District Resources Committed

11. Active Interdisciplinary Site Team

AVID Essentials in a Nutshell

AVID Program Implementation Essentials

1. AVID student selection focuses on students in the middle (2.0 to 3.5 G.P.A. as one indicator) with academic potential, who would benefit from AVID support to improve their academic record and begin college preparation.

2. AVID program participants, both students and staff, choose to participate.

3. The school must be committed to full implementation of the AVID program, with the AVID year-long elective class available within the regular academic school day.

4. AVID students must be enrolled in a rigorous course of study that will enable them to meet requirements for university enrollment.

A Guided Tour Through AVID Certification Self Study

Read all the indicators for the Essential.

Talk about the “intent” of the Essential.

List the documentation you feel is needed.

Summarize each indicator.

Present your findings! What is the difference between levels 1-2-3?

The Site Plan

Begin by assessing where you are with the first four AVID Essentials.

Identify the single Essential in this group of four that you want to implement or improve next year.

Examine the Critical Questions for these Essentials

Make sure that each objective of the Site Team Plan has a significant role for members of the site team and that there is a balance of responsibility.

AVID Site Plan

Essential #: __________Indicator #: ______________ (For experienced sites, is this recommended for your CSS? ____)

AVID Level of use: Not AVID (Level 0) Meets Certification (Level 1) Routine Use (Level 2) Institutionalization (Level 3)

Critical Question: _____________________________________________________________________

Objective: ___________________________________________________________________________

Outcome Action Timeline Evaluation

What do we want to achieve?

How will we make it happen? What expenditures are necessary? Who needs to be involved

(individuals/committees)?Who will take responsibility to see that this is

accomplished? What is the relationship to district plan(s)? What is the relationship to vertical alignment of ML and HS

curricula in our district?

When will we complete this

task?What will be the

benchmark?

What evidence will we have to demonstrate our success?

State School Year Region/County District Site Principal _____________________________________________Date

Individual Learning Log

How can our current school system increase the number of college-ready students?

How can establishing the AVID Elective classes assist in creating more college ready students?

How can I assist in the establishment of the AVID Elective?