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From YouTube: AVID Achievers AVID Elementary
Description
Host Dot Arida highlights AVID students & AVID teachers about the advantages of the AVID program for students planning to attend college. This month Dot is joined by Lacey Wallace, guidance counselor from Arundel Middle School. Lacey is also a national staff developer for AVID Center.
A
Hello
and
welcome,
I
am
dot
areata
your
host
of
avid
achievers
today
on
avid
achievers.
We
are
going
to
talk
about
avid
elementary.
We
are
joined
by
our
guest
Lacey
Wallace,
a
national
trainer
for
avid
center
and
a
counselor
at
arundel
middle
school
hi
Lacey
thanks
for
coming
sure,
thanks
for
having
me,
can
you
tell
us
a
little
bit
about
avid
Elementary
sure.
B
Avid
Elementary
is
a
part
of
the
greater
avid
college
readiness
system
and
it
is
the
beginning
of
the
entire
system
that
is
sequential
across
grade
levels.
So
it
really
focuses
on
research-based
instructional
strategies
and
methodologies
that
really
prepare
students
for
college
and
career
readiness.
It's
throughout
all
subject
areas
throughout
all
grade
levels
when
it
becomes
school-wide,
Evan
added,
add
an
avid
elementary
sight.
Great.
A
B
The
overall
goal
of
avid
elementary
is
really
to
equip
students
with
lifelong
skills
for
student
success
and
college
readiness.
It's
about
closing
the
achievement
gap
and
making
sure
that
all
students
have
access
to
those
structural
strategies
that
make
them
successful
throughout
life.
So
it's
really
lifelong
strategies
like
organization,
Self,
Advocacy.
Those
student
success
skills
that
really
make
a
difference
for
students
throughout
their
educational
careers.
A
Avid
Elementary
incorporates
the
same
wicker
framework
that
is
used
in
the
avid
secondary
model.
Wicker
stands
for
writing
inquiry
collaboration
organization
and
reading
strategies
to
grow.
Students
in
these
areas
are
embedded
throughout
the
day
in
the
regular
school
curriculum
so
that
students
develop
successful
learning
habits.
What
are
some
of
the
other
components
of
avid
Elementary?
The.
B
Student
success,
skills
and
organizational
pieces
that
I
mentioned
are
big
big
parts
of
avid
elementary,
so
teaching
kids
to
stand
up
for
themselves
to
be
able
to
self-advocate
communicate
with
their
teachers
and
their
peers
to
collaborate
with
one
another
in
class
to
be
able
to
achieve
higher
order.
Thinking
and
questioning
there
are
there's
a
great
focus
on
organizational
strategies,
whether
it's
organization
of
thinking,
organization
of
materials,
so
you're
thinking
about
agenda
books,
organizational
notebooks,
folders
different
ways
to
organize
things.
B
B
We
do
actually,
and
so
that
piece
of
avid
Elementary
is
called
beginnings
usually
with
the
lower
grade
levels,
are
the
primary
grade
levels,
so
they
focus
a
lot
on
communication
and
it's
L
wicker
in
those
grade
levels.
So
it's
learning
to
wick
horse.
So
it's
a
lot
more
dependence
on
the
teacher,
so
a
lot
of
teacher
modeling
teacher-directed
strategies
that
they
will
then
learn
to
become
more
independent
in
implementing
as
they
get
older
and
get
into
the
avid
foundations.
So.
A
B
Do
avid
Elementary
has
four
essentials
as
opposed
to
the
11
in
the
secondary
schools,
so
they
are
her
first
is
wick
or
which
we
already
mentioned,
the
writing
inquiry
collaboration
organization
and
reading,
so
that
is
school-wide
throughout
every
grade
level.
In
a
school-wide
avid
site.
That's
the
instructional
piece
it
is.
It
is
all
about
the
instruction
what
you
see
in
the
classroom,
what
the
teachers
are
focusing
on
each
day.
B
The
second
essential
is
the
college-going
culture
in
the
building,
so
culture
and
just
the
rigor
and
the
relevance
and
the
college-going
goal,
setting
that
students
will
participate
in
the
third
essential
is
leadership,
so
it's
essential
that
the
leadership
in
the
building
the
administration
is
involved
and
supportive
and
that
goals
on
the
site
team
plan
for
the
avid
site
team
align
with
the
school
improvement
plan.
The
fourth
component
is
systems
so
which
really
focuses
on
you
know
our
entire
system
and
how
we
integrate
avid
into
that
system.
So
it's
about
accountability.
B
A
B
B
Hear
that
question
you
know
so
oftentimes
college
is
expensive
and
you
know
not.
All
students
should
go
to
college.
It
may
not
be
what's
best
for
that
student.
So
I
definitely
understand
that
concern
when
we
build
college
readiness,
we're
also
building
career
readiness.
So
when
you
think
of
different
completer
pathways
for
high
school
you're
talking
about
different
opportunities
for
students,
so
we
say
we
want
to
prepare
all
students
for
college
and
if
they
choose
to
have
a
career,
a
specialty
area
or
go
to
a
trade
school,
then
that
is
excellent.
A
So
much
like
avid
secondary
the
force
behind
avid
elementary
is
the
school-wide
implementation
of
the
program,
so
we're
developing
and
practicing
skills
and
habits
and
instructional
strategies
throughout
the
day
throughout
the
building
in
every
classroom
every
grade
level
to
affect
the
paw
of
learning
habits
of
our
children.
We
recently
visited
some
avid
elementary
sites
and
gathered
some
footage
to
share
with
our
viewers.
Avid
Elementary
was
implemented
at
four
schools
as
part
of
the
Department
of
Defense
Education
activity
grant.
A
There
are
six
other
schools
who
have
become
avid
elementary
sites,
avid
elementary
aims
to
develop
students,
success
skills
in
our
youngest
learners
and
create
learning
and
study
habits
that
they
will
carry
with
them
throughout
their
academic
journey,
avid
elementary
students
in
all
grades
and
in
all
classrooms,
learn
to
set
and
monitor
goals.
Our
youngest
students
learn
to
set
goals,
as
a
group
and
as
an
individual
for
continued
growth
turn.
C
To
your
partner,
or
you
guys,
I
have
free
here,
turn
your
partner
and
try
to
talk
about.
What
do
you
think
would
be
a
good
little
for
our
class
this
week
ready
to
go
and
you're
going
to
glue
the
picture
that
you
want
to
work
on
this
week
in
to
the
square
and
at
the
end
of
the
week,
when
you
put
your
binders
back
we'll
talk
about
whether
you
met
your
goal
or
not
this
job
is
it
to
reach
the
goal
whose
job
yulin's
you.
C
Has
to
come
from
yourself
look
it
finds
something
that
you
know
you
need
to
do.
Don't
if
you
better
tie
your
shoe,
please
don't
cut
out.
I
can
tie
my
shoe.
I
can
learn
to
tie
my
ship.
Could
you
want
to
have
a
good
make
a
goal?
Something
you
want
to
learn.
Something
you
want
to
work
on
is
something
you
want
to.
What's
this
word
I,
ok,
so
what
sure?
What
is
our
goal
today?
I
can
set
a
goal
and
achieve
it.
F
A
G
Aspects
of
avid
that
my
teachers
have
really
embraced.
As
you
can
see
from
the
video
our
goal,
setting
collaboration
and
inquiry,
my
teachers
feel
that
they
get
the
students
engaged
more
when
they
make
it
relevant
to
the
students,
so
students
are
able
to
pick
their
own
goal
for
the
week,
so
they
have
something
to
strive
for.
Collaboration
is
really
important
because
it
gives
the
kids
a
voice
to
give
the
kids
a
chance
to
talk
about
things
before
they
have
to
give
their
final
answer
in
case
they
don't
know
what
they're
doing
and
then
also
inquiry.
A
E
H
I'm
Nathan-
and
this
is
my
pencil
pouch
and,
and
it
has
my
crowns
and
my
pencil
in
it
and
I'm
responsible
for
it,
and
this
is
this-
is
the
front,
and
this
is
my
pain,
so
I
know
how
to
spell
it,
and
these
are
my
respect.
Tickets.
If
I
do
a
good
job
or
not
look.
C
E
C
A
I
Today,
we're
doing
are
one
of
our
very
first
one
pagers
and
it's
helping
us
sort
by
what
different
different
types
and
attributes
which
is
helping
us
with
our
thinking
for
math.
A
J
Standard
algorithm,
this
is
important
because
we
know
we
can
solve
edition
with
using
models.
Please
value
blocks,
but
we
also
need
to
do
the
standard
algorithm.
Then
this
is
a
lot
of
times
how
our
parents
learn
too,
and
so,
when
you're
lining
up
the
numbers,
I'm
looking
at
each
place
value
and
doing
it.
So
we're
going
to
be
doing
that
standard
algorithm.
Today,
our.
K
K
So
we're
actually
taking
out
a
piece
of
paper
and
doing
the
three
column
notes
we
are
going
to
use.
What's
called
a
brand
chart,
so
I'm
going
to
give
you
what
a
part
and
it's
going
to
be
about
a
topic
there.
Are
they
okay
and
it
says
what
I
know
about
the
topic:
okay,
so
you're
going
to
take
sticking
them
in
your
Vic's
and
you're
going
to
write
everything
you
know
about
Tigers.
K
Obviously,
that's
not
our
topic,
but
this
is
an
example
right
everything
you
know
about
the
topic,
then,
on
this
green
portion,
green
means
go,
go
ahead
and
start
thinking
start
wondering
you're
going
to
write
any
questions
or
any
wonderings.
You
have
about
the
topic
our
example
topic
is
Tigers.
Do
Tigers
swim?
That's
one
thing:
I
want!
Ok,
that's
a
wandering!
K
I
have
you're
going
to
fill
this
in
I'm
going
to
give
you
about
five
to
ten
minutes,
to
just
think
about
a
puppet
and
everything
that
you
might
know,
or
that
you
might
wonder
then,
and
not
until
them.
Can
you
open
your
ranch
art
and
when
I
give
you
an
article,
your
article
is
going
to
be
about
the
topic
and
in
the
middle.
This
green
is
what
I
confirmed
the
end
product
of
this
ranch
art
is
their
response
to
read
it.
We
are
going
to
write
about
everything,
a
short
paragraph,
about
everything
about
the
topic.
K
Now,
do
you
think
just
based
on
what
you
know
about
red
and
green?
Should
I
write
down
things
that
are
in
the
red?
No,
no!
No.
That
would
make
much
sense,
because
I'm
not
sure
I
didn't
confirm
this
was
true
or
maybe
I
had
some
misconceptions
and
I
knew
it
wasn't
accurate,
so
I'm
going
to
be
writing
everything
that
I
learned
and
then
I
confirmed
it.
Even
you
can
still
add
some
wandering
to
your
article
about
the
topic
now.
K
A
E
D
I'm
Amanda
Griffith
I
am
the
school
counselor
here
at
westmead.
Early
education
center
this
year
will
be
our
fourth
year
with
avid
Elementary.
We
really
think
avid
Elementary
has
opened
up
the
doorway
and
really
set
the
foundation
for
college
and
career
readiness.
Here.
Our
students
right
now
are
learning
organizational
strategies.
They're
learning
levels
of
thinking,
they're
also
learning
goal
setting.
So
we
really
think
that
it's
teaching
consistency
and
that
it's
promoting
student
success
west.
L
Annapolis
elementary
has
been
an
avid
school
for
one
full
school
year
and
we're
beginning
our
second
full
year.
It's
made
a
huge
impact
on
our
students,
not
just
with
organization,
but
with
their
study,
skills
and
students
becoming
more
responsible
for
their
learning,
they're,
the
ones
taking
the
notes
and
they're
the
ones,
learning
all
the
study,
skills
and
really
being
responsible
for
their
own
learning.
So
we've
seen
a
huge
impact
here,
especially
with
our
intermediate
students,
so.
A
You
can
see
that
the
Abbott
up
methodologies
start
with
even
our
youngest
of
learners.
The
avid
beginnings
framework
builds
fundamental
communication
skills
and
organization
tools
to
enable
student
success.
There
is
a
consistent,
fundamental
approach
to
learning
that
is
adopted
in
all
classrooms
at
all
grade
levels.
How
does
the
focus
shift
for
older
elementary
students
so.
B
Avid
beginnings,
like
we
said,
is
usually
for
the
earlier
years
and
then
we
shift
into
avid
foundations.
So
it's
really
building
those
foundational
pieces
for
their
education.
So
as
much
as
they
continue
to
focus
on
communication,
they
also
start
focusing
on
some
organizational
strategies:
some
higher
order,
thinking
and
questioning
skills,
note-taking
and
different
components
that
really
focus
on
rigor
and
pushing
students
to
collaborate
and
organize
their
thinking
and
their
materials.
B
A
Here
is
where
the
students
really
begin
to
develop
maturity
and
their
levels
of
thinking
questions.
So
students
are
introduced
to
higher-level
thinking
and
questioning
at
a
young
age,
but
mostly
through
teacher
modeling
and
being
able
to
respond
to
those
higher-level
questions,
but
as
they
move
up
in
grade
level,
students
learn
to
identify
and
create
their
own
higher-level
questions
for
thinking
and
using.
I
believe
they
use
Kostas
model.
They
do
in
the
elementary
for
developing
this.
A
B
Go
sure
so
at
Manor
View
Elementary
we
were
already
implementing
stem
and
international
baccalaureate,
so
we
had
a
number
of
things
going
on
already,
so
we
wanted
to
make
sure
that
our
teachers
would
not
feel
overwhelmed
and
that
they
would
be
able
to
just
seamlessly
shift
into
this
role
of
being
an
avid
elementary
teacher.
So
we
really
looked
at
what
grade
levels
were
already
implementing
some
pieces
or
components
of
avid,
so
we
looked
at
which
grade
levels
were
already
focusing
on
organizational
tools
and
materials.
B
We
were
looking
at,
which
grade
levels
were
already
looking
at
higher
order.
Thinking
not
that
they
are
all
are
not
all
doing
that
already,
however,
which
ones
would
be
the
easiest
to
implement.
So
we
are
particular
school
focused
on
fourth
and
fifth
grade.
We
felt
that
it
was
easiest
to
begin
with
our
oldest
students
to
be
able
to
trickle
down
in
future
years,
so
we
were
very
strategic
about
choosing
who
we
would
send
a
Summer
Institute.
So
every
summer
there
is
a
Summer
Institute
that
avid
center
has
throughout
the
country.
B
Oftentimes
Anne
Arundel
County
will
send
us
to
philadelphia.
So
we
strategically
selected
teachers
who
we
know
would
be
enthusiastic,
who
would
remain
at
our
school
to
continue
to
grow
the
avid
college
readiness
system?
So
we
talked
to
our
teachers.
We
asked
for
volunteers
because
you
have
to
be
voluntarily.
You
know
involved
with
avid,
because
it
is,
it
is
just
great
teaching
practice
you
have
to
be
willing
to
take
on
those
those
expectations,
the
the
skills
and
the
strategies
to
with
students.
So
we
selected
fourth
and
fifth
grade,
we
sent
our
staff
to
Summer
Institute.
B
We
actually
sent
a
cultural
arts
teacher
as
well
to
be
able
to
affect
school-wide
change.
We
went
to
summer
institute,
we
all
receive
different
strands
of
training.
We
met
back
together
during
site
team
meetings
that
summer
and
really
developed
a
plan
that
would
jive
with
our
school
improvement
plan
and
the
other
ib
and
stem
activities
that
we
had.
Okay,.
A
B
A
B
So
you
become
an
advocate,
you
know
for
the
strategies
and
and
skills
that
you
learn
over
the
summer
and
really
try
to
embed
that
when
you're
working
in
collaborative
planning
and
independent
planning
for
your
lessons
so
you're
really
incorporating
and
teaching
the
other
student
or
the
other
teachers
what
those
strategies
are,
so
everyone
can
incorporate
it
into
their
lesson
planning
for
the
week.
Okay,.
B
Two
we
started
to
send
first
grade
teachers
we
looked
at
who
else
needed
to
be
involved
to
be
able
to
affect
school-wide
change.
So
we
sent
a
first
grade
teacher.
We
sent
a
second
grade.
Teacher
I
went
back
to
a
different
strand,
our
principal
also
returned,
and
so
we
had
a
couple
of
other
folks
at
10.
So
we
could
again
start
to
build
in
the
earlier
years
and
build
sequentially
up
through
the
intermediate
grades.
Okay,.
A
B
When
we
came
back
to
school
during
the
back
to
school
meetings
for
the
teachers
the
week
prior
to
the
beginning
of
students
returning,
we
spent
some
time
rolling
out
with
the
entire
staff.
What
avid
elementary
was
what
it
would
look
like
the
things
that
were
on
our
site
team
and
are
focused
for
the
school
year
and
then
asked
for
others
to
become
involved.
B
We
would
also
speak
with
other
elementary
schools
who
were
training
in
avid
as
well
to
be
able
to
collaborate
on
some
of
the
things
that
we
were
working
on
and
again
also
just
during
collaborative
planning,
so
the
teachers
who
have
the
knowledge
and
the
access
to
the
resources
to
really
share
and
be
that
voice
for
Abbott.
In
our
school
great.
B
So
there
is,
we
talked
a
little
bit
about
that
Family
Partnership
in
the
community
partnership
piece,
and
there
really
are.
There
really
is
a
family
component
to
it.
So
avid
center
provides
a
number
of
resources
for
parents
topics
to
discuss
at
the
dinner
table.
What
parents
can
do
to
really
build
that
homeschool
communication.
There
also
parent
workshops
that
that
are
implemented
throughout
the
school
year,
that
will
teach
parents
about
Abbott
and
what
they
can
do
to
support
their
students
and
their
lifelong
skills
at
home.
Great.
A
So
it
sounds
like
it's
a
support
for
students,
teachers,
parents.
We
are
very
excited
to
have
avid
Elementary
in
our
county
for
more
information
about
avid
Elementary.
Please
visit
our
website
avid
org,
Thank,
You
Lacey,
so
much
for
joining
us
today.
Thanks
for
having
me,
please
join
us
in
future
episodes
of
avid
achievers
where
we
will
start
our
spotlight
series.
We
will
spotlight
different
schools
throughout
the
county
and
share
the
great
initiatives
and
successes
that
are
going
on
at
our
avid
sites.