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Academic Language and Literacy Architects: Language Building Through Culture and Identity

Academic Language and Literacy Architects is designed to engage elementary through postsecondary educators in becoming language architects.
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AVID Elective — New (for Elective teachers who are new to teaching the AVID Elective class)

AVID Elective — New is designed for middle and high school educators serving as new AVID Elective teachers and new AVID Coordinators who teach the AVID Elective class and may also coordinate the AVID College and Career Readiness System at their school site.
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AVID Elementary K–2

AVID Elementary K–2 is designed for primary educators to explore strategies and resources focused on pre-emergent and emergent learners.
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AVID Elementary 3–6

AVID Elementary 3–6 is designed for educators to explore strategies and resources focused on diverse groups of learners.
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Creating Engaging and Rigorous Classrooms

Creating Engaging and Rigorous Classrooms is designed to empower all elementary through postsecondary educators to create an engaging and rigorous community of learners by preparing educators, counselors, and site leaders to scaffold student success with rigorous content.
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Cultivating Writing Schoolwide — Elementary

Cultivating Writing Schoolwide — Elementary is designed to empower elementary educators with foundational knowledge and strategies to increase their skills and confidence in using writing as a powerful tool in a 21st century learning environment.
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Cultivating Writing Schoolwide — Secondary

Cultivating Writing Schoolwide — Secondary is designed to empower secondary and postsecondary educators with knowledge and strategies to increase their skills and confidence in using writing as a powerful tool in a 21st century learning environment.
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English Language Arts

English Language Arts is designed to support ELA educators in grades 6–12.
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Fostering an Equitable and Engaging Culture in Classrooms

Fostering an Equitable and Engaging Culture in Classrooms is designed to address and meet the need for K–12 and postsecondary educators, counselors, and site leaders to foster an equitable and engaging culture for learning.
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History/Social Science

The History/Social Science learning experience is designed for history, social science, and humanities educators (grades 6–12) to apply engaging, inquiry-based strategies that will increase students’ ability to think, read, and write like a historian.
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Instructional Coaches and Elective Educators

Instructional Coaches and Elective Educators is designed for grade 6–12 elective educators (e.g., art, world languages, music) and instructional coaches.
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Leading Change for Educational Equity

Leading Change for Educational Equity is designed to empower site- and district-based leaders to employ a systemic approach to college and career readiness through the implementation of AVID Schoolwide. For an optimal learning experience, attending with a team of at least 3 is highly recommended.
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Leading Change for Educational Equity 2: Leadership (one-day session designed for teams)

Leading Change for Educational Equity 2 (LCEE2) is designed as a follow-up to the Leading Change for Educational Equity training that introduced school teams to the four AVID Schoolwide Domains. Partners can select up to four days of training focusing on the Domains (Instruction, Systems, Leadership, and Culture) for their LCEE2 professional learning experience. This offering explores Leadership.
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Leading Change for Educational Equity 2: Instruction (one-day session designed for teams)

Leading Change for Educational Equity 2 (LCEE2) is designed as a follow-up to the Leading Change for Educational Equity training that introduced school teams to the four AVID Schoolwide Domains. Partners can select up to four days of training focusing on the Domains (Instruction, Systems, Leadership, and Culture) for their LCEE2 professional learning experience. This offering explores Instruction.
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Leading Change for Educational Equity 2: Systems (one-day session designed for teams)

Leading Change for Educational Equity 2 (LCEE2) is designed as a follow-up to the Leading Change for Educational Equity training that introduced school teams to the four AVID Schoolwide Domains. Partners can select up to four days of training focusing on the Domains (Instruction, Systems, Leadership, and Culture) for their LCEE2 professional learning experience. This offering explores Systems.
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Leading Change for Educational Equity 2: Culture (one-day session designed for teams)

Leading Change for Educational Equity 2 (LCEE2) is designed as a follow-up to the Leading Change for Educational Equity training that introduced school teams to the four AVID Schoolwide Domains. Partners can select up to four days of training focusing on the Domains (Instruction, Systems, Leadership, and Culture) for their LCEE2 professional learning experience. This offering explores Culture.
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Mathematics: Cultivating a Discourse-Rich Classroom — Elementary

Mathematics: Cultivating a Discourse-Rich Classroom — Elementary is designed to address and meet the needs of elementary educators, counselors, and site leaders to develop mathematicians through cultivating a discourse-rich mathematics learning environment.
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Mathematics: Cultivating a Discourse-Rich Classroom — Secondary

Mathematics: Cultivating a Discourse-Rich Classroom — Secondary is designed to address the needs of secondary and postsecondary educators and site leaders to develop mathematicians through cultivating a discourse-rich mathematics learning environment.
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No Limits: Transforming Literacy Through Content-Area Reading

No Limits: Transforming Literacy Through Content-Area Reading is designed to engage elementary through postsecondary educators in realizing what happens when we leverage reading in all content areas to eliminate literacy gaps.
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Science

This Science learning experience is designed to support science educators in grades 6–12. Educators will experience learning using collaborative structures to build science literacy through inquiry.
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Tutorology

Tutorology is designed for second-year AVID Elective teachers and AVID Site Coordinators who teach the AVID Elective class.
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