Course Description

The Cultivating Writing Schoolwide – Primary CoP is designed to engage and empower Primary educators with foundational knowledge and strategies to increase skills and confidence in writing as a powerful tool in a 21st-century learning environment.

Primary educators across all discipline areas will gain strategies for teaching the writing process, understanding of the academic modes of writing (persuasive, expository, narrative, and descriptive), as well as writing for a range of academic purposes. Participants will explore the power of metacognitive writing to cultivate literacy and student agency with a focus on primary learning environments.

This collaborative experience allows educators to support learners in accessing rigorous content and writing like content experts.

Performance Objectives

Upon completion of this learning experience, participants will:

• Apply the AVID Tertiary and Career Readiness Framework as an organising principle to guide and develop the instructional practice and program development within their learning environments and/or educational settings.
• Engage in and utilise the AVID Focused Note-Taking Process for deepening understanding of content and learning-through-writing essential instructional practices.
• Intentionally include learning-through-writing essential instructional best practices within lesson design and delivery across all year levels and content areas to deepen understanding and turn invisible thinking into visible learning.
• Understand the four modes of writing and utilise them in high- and low-stakes writing tasks.
• Understand and utilise the writing process as a learning tool to improve academic writing and develop a deeper connection and access to content.
• Understand metacognition and strategically infuse metacognitive strategies into lessons and content in order to foster students’ thinking about their thinking when writing.
• Support social and emotional learning through understanding the importance of metacognition in evaluation, feedback, and self-reflection.

Course Description

The Cultivating Writing Schoolwide – Secondary CoP is designed to engage and empower secondary and post-secondary educators with knowledge and strategies to increase skills and confidence in writing as a powerful tool in a 21st-century learning environment.

Educators across all discipline areas will gain strategies for teaching the writing process and building an understanding of the academic modes of writing (argumentative, expository, narrative, and descriptive) as well as writing for a range of academic purposes. Participants will explore the power of metacognitive writing to cultivate both literacy and student agency.

This collaborative experience allows educators, regardless of familiarity with the instruction of writing, to explore strategies to help students access rigorous content and write like content experts.

Performance Objectives

Upon completion of this learning experience, participants will:

• Apply the Tertiary and Career Readiness Framework as an organising principle to guide and develop the instructional practice and program development within their learning environments and/or educational settings.
• Engage in and utilise the Focused Note-Taking Process for deepening understanding of content and learning-through-writing strategies.
• Intentionally include learning-through-writing instructional best practices within lesson design and delivery across all year levels and content areas to deepen understanding and turn invisible thinking into visible learning.
• Understand and utilise each mode as a writing tool to help students develop clear and efficient communication of ideas in order to understand the content more deeply and tackle any writing situation they encounter.
• Understand and utilise the writing process as a learning tool to help students improve their academic writing and to develop a deeper connection and access to content.
• Understand metacognition and strategically infuse metacognitive strategies into lessons and content in order to foster students’ thinking about their thinking when writing.
• Support social and emotional learning through understanding the importance of metacognition in evaluation, feedback, and self-reflection.

Course Description

The English CoP is designed to engage and deepen the understanding of participants with the intentional integration of speaking and listening, writing to communicate, and how the AVID Critical Reading Process provides access to rigorous non-fiction, fiction, and non-traditional texts.

Performance Objectives

Upon completion of this learning experience, participants will:

• Cultivate an understanding of disciplinary literacy and AVID’s core processes for implementation, supporting both educator and student agency and learning targets.
• Leverage the power of academic speaking and listening skills necessary for students’ success in both post-secondary and career pathways.
• Understand the collaborative writing process to leverage meaningful feedback creating multiple opportunities for student engagement and authentic experiences.
• Have a better understanding of AVID’s core processes—critical reading, focused note-taking and the gradual release of responsibility, and how these processes support learning.
• Be able to facilitate learning opportunities that empower students to find their powerful voices, access rigorous texts and communicate with an authentic purpose.

Course Description

The Leading Change for Student Success CoP is designed to engage school leaders in creating a strong infrastructure to lead change to support all students. Participants will explore a defined leadership theory of action that addresses educator beliefs and behaviours, identifies schoolwide conditions and supports AVID Schoolwide implementation and sustainability to ensure tertiary and career readiness for all.

Participants will return to their schools equipped with a systemic approach to identifying specific strategies to anticipate and troubleshoot potential obstacles and barriers and implement lasting change to provide equitable opportunities for all students.

Performance Objectives

Upon completion of this experience, participants will:

• Execute a defined leadership theory of action to ensure tertiary and career readiness for all students.
• Define success for all students “The Why” with that definition.
• Build capacity to become a student-centered leader.
• Create a strong infrastructure to support AVID Schoolwide implementation and sustainability.
• Gain an understanding of the processes necessary to support building a culture, providing leadership, guiding instruction, and developing/aligning/integrating systems that ensure tertiary and career readiness for all students.
• Explore how to leverage each of the four domains of Instruction, Systems, Leadership, and Culture to achieve student success.

Course Description

The Mathematics: Cultivating a Discourse-Rich Classroom CoP is designed to address and meet the current and unprecedented needs for Upper Primary and Secondary teachers, to develop mathematicians through cultivating a discourse-rich mathematics learning environment.

Participants will explore teacher actions that are necessary to empower students to engage deeply in mathematics, communicate their ideas and connect their thinking to others.

This collaborative experience will engage participants in strategies that they can implement to create a culture for discourse, utilise a variety of mathematical representations, ask intentional and higher-level questions and gather evidence of student thinking and learning.

Performance Objectives

Upon completion of this learning experience, participants will:

• Build a safe learning environment in order to maximise student mathematical reasoning and communication.
• Implement strategies that use and connect mathematical representations in order to deepen student understanding.
• Use purposeful and higher-level questions in order to assess and advance student thinking.
• Implement routines that allow for gathering and utilising evidence of student thinking in order to assess, support, and extend learning.

Course Description

The Secondary Implementation CoP will focus on the academic and organisational skills needed to effectively advocate for AVID students and to build AVID schoolwide focus across a school.

Participants will explore AVID implementation; Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organisation, and Reading (WICOR®) strategies; the 10 Steps of the Tutorial Process; and student agency and opportunity knowledge using updated AVID resources.

Performance Objectives

Upon completion of this learning experience, participants will:

• Apply the components of the AVID Tertiary and Career Readiness Framework to activate agency through the 10 Steps of the Tutorial Process.
• Reflect, plan, and determine resources to apply to the 10-Step AVID Tutorial Process in order to develop student agency and empower students to find success in rigorous coursework and other collaborative environments.
• Deepen their knowledge of how to utilise resources to scaffold relational capacity, collaboration, and strengthen community as a means of building a brave and supportive learning environment.

Course Description

The Student Success CoP is designed to engage educators in the use of AVID instructional practices.

Participants will experience Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organisation, and Reading (WICOR®) instructional strategies through a hands-on approach to ensure students’ engagement, social and emotional learning, access to rigour, and tertiary and career readiness. Participants will gain an understanding of how skills development and tertiary and career-readiness can be supported in all subject areas.

Performance Objectives

Upon completion of this learning experience, participants will:

• Use their own definition of success and knowledge of AVID to support social and emotional well-being and the attainment of student success.
• Build the skills of Writing and Inquiry to accelerate content area learning and student success.
• Build the skills of Collaboration, Organisation, and Reading to accelerate content area learning and student success.
• Integrate multiple elements of Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organisation, and Reading (WICOR®) into lessons to build individual WICOR skills and also to increase student engagement, access to rigour, and student agency.

NESA Accreditation
Completing Summer Institute Student Success will contribute 12 hours of NSW Education Standards Authority (NESA) Accredited PD in the priority area of Delivery and Assessment of NSW Curriculum/EYLF addressing standard descriptor 3.3.2 from the Australian Professional Standards for Teachers towards maintaining Proficient Teacher Accreditation in NSW.

Workshop Description

This session will engage participants in mathematical strategies including Choral Counting, Math Sentence Frames, and Mental Maths as applied to the content area of fractions. These strategies were successfully utilised as a part of the AVID Myer Maths Project. Participants will also explore activities focused on fundamental understandings of fractions such as equal parts of the whole, paper folding, and the set, area, and number line models for fractions.

Workshop Description

This session will engage participants in mathematical strategies including Choral Counting, Math Sentence Frames, and Mental Maths as applied to the content area of fractions. These strategies were successfully utilised as a part of the AVID Myer Maths Project. Participants will explore how unit fractions and prime numbers are related, sense-making fraction arithmetic strategies, and strategies for ordering fractions.

Workshop Description

This session will give participants the opportunity to understand how to implement and apply collaborative study groups within their classrooms. The Collaborative Study Groups model supports students as they identify a specific question from any content area; collaborate to develop and deepen their understanding through Socratic inquiry, and apply their new learning to enhance classroom performance.

Workshop Description

This session caters for participants who are not focusing on Site Team materials. This session will provide participants with opportunities to share their learning from Day 1, meet and network with AVID educators from across the country, and understand the role of the individual as an active contributor to AVID schoolwide efforts. Participants will also engage in a Q & A session to deepen their learning experience and clarify any confusion that has arisen during Day 1 of Summer Institute.

Workshop Description

This session caters for participants who are new to AVID. One of the key aspects of successful AVID implementation schoolwide is a team of educators who are committed to serving the needs of all students. In this session participants will learn the what, how, who, and why of the AVID Site Team. Participants will create SMART goals, and be equipped with necessary tools to implement AVID Site Team Goals.

Workshop Description

This session caters for participants attending Summer Institute as contributing members of their Site Team. This session explores the new Site Team materials and offers designated time and space to work as a Site Team to identify site priorities, develop goals and undertake planning to deepen the implementation of AVID at their school.

Workshop Description

This session caters for participants attending this year’s Summer Institute as contributing members of their Site Team. This session is an opportunity to continue working as a Site Team to identify site priorities, develop goals and undertake planning to deepen the implementation of AVID at their school.

Workshop Description

This session caters for Primary and Secondary educators. Participants will reflect on their learning and key takeaways from their CoP. It is an opportunity to connect, plan and share experiences with other AVID educators and explore ways to overcome challenges to implementing AVID in their school.