Join AVID Australia in Perth from 21 – 22 July for our mid-year immersive professional learning experience for new and experienced AVID educators. Two options are available: 2-day Path event and a 1-day Workshop event.
Both events will be held at Fremantle College.
Option 1: 2-day Perth Path (Community of Practice 2-day format)
Educators learn and practise evidence-informed, high engagement teaching and learning strategies, facilitated by experienced Australian Staff Developers. Three Communities of Practice (CoP) are offered – Schoolwide Success, Creating Engaging and Rigorous Classrooms, Engaging Students to Build Reading and Writing Skills.
Note: The 2-day Path CoP is an alternative format to the 3-day Summer Institute format. The content of the CoP remains the same.
When: Monday, 21 July – 22 July. (Educators are required to attend both days to complete the CoP.)
Where: Fremantle College
Cost per AVID school participant: $995 (+ GST)
Cost per non-AVID school participant: $1095 (+ GST)
Registration deadline: Friday 11 July, 2025
Option 2: 1-day Workshop Event
A day of workshops developed by WA AVID educators in conjunction with AVID Australia. WA educators will share AVID strategies and experience on how they achieve high engagement and rigorous learning.
When: Monday, 21 July
Where: Fremantle College
Cost per AVID school participant: $395 (+ GST)
Cost per non-AVID school participant: $495 (+ GST)
Registration deadline: Friday 11 July, 2025
Register for the 2-day Communities of Practice Event or the 1-day Workshop Event
Please contact AVID Australia if you have any questions regarding registration.
Communities of Practice
In the 2-day Communities of Practice (CoP) event, educators learn and practise evidence-informed, high engagement teaching and learning strategies, facilitated by experienced Australian Staff Developers.
A description of each CoP and the performance objectives is outlined below.
Three CoPs are available to select from.
Creating Engaging and Rigorous Classrooms
Available to AVID Member and non-member schools
This learning experience is recommended for AVID upper primary and secondary educators across all content areas who are new to and experienced with AVID implementation.
Course Description
The Creating Engaging and Rigorous Classrooms Community of Practice is designed to engage primary and secondary educators in cultivating a community of learners by preparing teachers and school leaders to scaffold student success with rigorous content. Educators will explore the framework of AVID Digital Learning: The 4 A’s® to meaningfully integrate blended learning strategies with Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organisation, and Reading (WICOR®) student-centred instructional practices to differentiate instruction and increase student agency. Participants will learn strategies to build connected communities through relational capacity activities to foster supportive and equitable learning spaces.
Performance Objectives
Participants will:
• Model and blend WICOR with digital strategies to provide students with quality instruction and learning opportunities in a 21st-century environment.
• Foster an academic mindset to create supportive and equitable learning spaces through student engagement and relational capacity strategies.
• Design and implement learning opportunities to promote student agency in blended learning environments.
• Empower learners through the use of student-centred instructional practices for differentiated learning spaces.
Schoolwide Success
Available to AVID Member and non-member schools
This learning experience is recommended for AVID upper primary and secondary educators across all content areas who are new to and experienced with AVID implementation.
Course Description
This course examines classroom strategies and methodologies that support the AVID Tertiary Career Readiness Framework and AVID Essential Skills schoolwide. Educators will learn the importance of disciplinary literacy, experience WICOR® in action, and understand how to craft learning experiences that support rigorous academic preparedness, student agency, and opportunity knowledge for their specific role at school.
Performance Objectives
Participants will:
• Explore the importance of relational capacity and classroom culture in building student agency
• Use WICOR strategies to model rigour, accelerate learning and develop student agency
• Create learning plans to incorporate rigorous academic preparedness, student agency, and opportunity knowledge.
Engaging Students to Build Reading and Writing Skills
Available to AVID Member and non-member schools
This learning experience is recommended for AVID upper primary and secondary educators across all content areas who are new to and experienced with AVID implementation.
Course Description
This Community of Practice engages educators in leveraging reading and writing skills in all content areas to eliminate discipline literacy gaps.
Performance Objectives
Participants will:
- Exercise educator agency by incorporating the AVID Critical Reading and Writing processes into instructional design with intentional scaffolds and supports.
- Increase and diversify the types of texts used to more fully engage all students.
- Leverage the power of building background knowledge to improve reading and writing.
- Choose Extending Beyond the Text strategies that align with specific academic thinking skills to scaffold learning so that students can access rigorous content.
- Build student agency by incorporating the AVID Focused Note-Taking Process to empower students to take charge of their learning in their classrooms.
Workshops
In the 1-day Workshop event, workshops have been developed by WA AVID educators in conjunction with AVID Australia. WA educators will share AVID strategies and experience on how they achieve high engagement and rigorous learning.
A description of each workshop to be advised.
Once you have registered you will be sent a form to select your preferences.
