Best Practices Towards Success:
- Maintain enrollment in college preparatory classes
- Maintain a notebook with class and text notes for each academic course
- Maintain assignment sheets for each subject and complete tutorial formsÌýfor all AVID tutorial sessions
- Take at least one page of notes in every class each day
- Spend two hours per night on homework and study
- Maintain satisfactory citizenship and attendance in all classes
- Complete AVID assignments including writing and speaking tasks
- Participate in AVID tutorials
- Take the PSAT/SAT at least once
- Attend the AVID field trips during and after school
- Maintain at least a 2.0 grade point average
- Increase academic rigor by enrolling in and successfully completing at least one Pre-AP/AP or IB class in one or more of the core curriculum areas (English, Math, Social Studies, Science) each year
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Writing
- ​Focused Notes/Cornell Notes
- Learning Logs
- Quickwrites
- Reflections
- Process Writing
- Peer Evaluation
- Authentic Writing
- Summaries
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Inquiry
- Skilled Questioning
- Costa’s Levels of Thinking
- Socratic Seminars
- Tutorials
- Investigations
- Guiding/Essential Questions
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Collaboration
- Socratic Seminars
- Tutorials
- Philosophical Chairs
- Group Activities and Projects
- Peer Editing
- Sharing
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Organization
- Binders
- Interactive Notebooks
- Calendars and Planners
- Graphic Organizers
- Focused Notes/Cornell Notes
- Tutorials and Study Groups
- Project Planning and SMART Goals
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Reading
- Critical Reading
- Marking the Text
- Focused Notes/Cornell Notes
- Graphic Organizers
- Vocabulary Building
- Summaries
- Reciprocal Teaching
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