11/18/2016
MDE School Improvement Conference
Monday November 21, 2016
Presented by: Salina Intermediate, Dearborn Public Schools
AVID Site Team
Jamel Lawera, Principal
Samir Dakhlallah, Site Coordinator
Genovia Peterson, Counselor
Eman Ahmed, Elective Teacher
Anna Centi, Elective and Language Arts Teacher
Jennifer Regan, Math Teacher
Alham Baydoun, Science Teacher
Angela Talukder, Social Studies Teacher
May Mosallam, Co-District Director
Kellie Bugajski, Co-District Director
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Learning Targets
CONTENT TARGET:
I can understand the purpose of A.V.I.D. and how it can be applied in a school setting
by writing a quickwrite.
LANGUAGE TARGET:
I can write to reflect on how A.V.I.D. strategies foster active critical thinking and
builds college readiness skills using the words: AVID, WICOR, RIGOR, CORNELL
NOTES, PHILOSOPHICAL CHAIRS/SOCRATIC SEMINARS, ONE-PAGERS, etc.
RANDOMIZE AND ROTATE
FOR TOTAL PARTICIPATION
Number off at your table
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QUICK WRITE
Write for 2 minutes –
How do you incorporate RIGOR and COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS at
your campus?
What Does AVID Stand For?
AVID= ADVANCEMENT VIA
INDIVIDUAL DETERMINATION
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What is AVID?
Simply, AVID trains educators to use proven practices in order to prepare
students for success in high school, college, and a career, especially students
traditionally underrepresented in higher education.
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Teaches skills and behaviors for academic success
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Provides intensive support with tutorials and strong student/teacher relationships
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Creates a positive peer group for students
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Develops a sense of hope for personal achievement gained through hard work and determination
AVID’s mission is to close the achievement gap by preparing all students for
college readiness and success in a global society.
Dearborn Public Schools will provide an exceptional learning environment that
empowers every student to succeed in life today and in the future.
The mission of Salina Intermediate School is to increase academic
achievement by implementing a comprehensive curriculum, which enables
students to become literate, problem solving critical thinkers
Vision: Students First -Inspire, Educate, Celebrate
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Dearborn Statistics
Salina Intermediate
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Student Population: 580
EL Population: 405 (70 %)
Teachers Bilingual or ESL
endorsed - 40%
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Economically Disadvantaged
Population: 228 (40%)
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Special Education
Population: 42 (14%)
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WIDA ELD Levels
[67]
Level 1 – Entering
Level 2 – Emerging
[38]
Level 3 – Developing
[72]
Level 4 – Expanding
[116]
Level 5 – Bridging
[88]
Level 6 – Reaching [26]
Selection Process For AVID
Criteria for AVID Students
Salina’s Selection Process
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In the academic middle with average GPA
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AVID Site Team
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Average test scores
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College potential with support
AVID Coordinator, Administrators, AVID elective teachers,
counselor, & AVID trained core content teachers..
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Good attendance
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Met to identify students fitting the AVID criteria.
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Good behavior in and out of the classroom
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Met with students to gage their interest in the program.
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Has the desire and individual determination to work hard
and succeed
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Sent home application letters to students who met the
criteria
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May be first generation in family to attend college
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AVID TEAM held parent meeting.
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Historically under-served in four-year colleges and
universities
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Students fitting the criteria and returned an application were
scheduled for the AVID Elective…
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Special circumstances
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Able to work well with others
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SALINA INTERMEDIATE
CULTURE AND CLIMATE
WICOR Definition: WICOR is an
acronym for strategies used in AVID
classrooms. The letters stand for
W- Writing
I-Inquiry
C- Collaboration
O- Organization
R- Reading
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A.V.I.D. Incorporates
WICOR
WICOR…
-Adds RIGOR to the curriculum
-Supports college-readiness skills
Elbow Partner Work:
How do you already incorporate these
components into your exisiting
curriculum?
#3s report out
Annotating the text
Socratic Seminars
Content and Language
Objectives
Cornell notes
Depth of Knowledge Discussions
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Organized Binders
Cornell Notes
Interactive Student Notebooks
AVID Binders
Learning Targets
Student Career Fair
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Purpose and
Process - Cornell
Note-Taking
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Create focused learning
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To organize main ideas,
questions, and text/media,
or investigations
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To develop and practice
higher order thinking skills.
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Synthesize /summarize
information
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Foster Study Habits
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SAMPLE CORNELL NOTES
Cornell Notes in the ISN
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Philosophical Chairs & The Socratic Seminar
Discussions where students engage in:
-DIALOGUE rather than DEBATE
-use evidence to support their claims
-practice LISTENING & RESPONDING to the
Ideas/opinions of others
Philosophical Chairs & The Socratic Seminar
Helpful Pinterest ideas you can check out…
A.V.I.D.
https://www.pinterest.com/amcenti/avid/
Philosophical Chairs
https://www.pinterest.com/amcenti/philosophical-chairs/
Socratic Seminar (a.k.a. “Socratic Circles”)
https://www.pinterest.com/amcenti/the-socratic-seminar/
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Examples of Socratic Seminar Formats
Inner Circle/Outer Circle
Socratic Seminar
AVID Weekly Example...
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How to Get Them Started...
1. Have students read/annotate the text. You may wish to build some
background ahead of the lesson or even the day(s) prior to help students gain a
full understanding of the text before they discuss.
2. Elicit information about what the students gleaned from the text, its stance (if
any), their stance + textual evidence to support it. Using a graphic organizer is
helpful to keep students organized.
3. Proceed with the philosophical chairs format where students divide the room
down the center or socratic seminar in circles (inner/outer circle formats vary).
WRITING A.V.I.D STYLE
• Use at the beginning, middle, or end of class (exit ticket)
• Takes 2-5 minutes for most activities, possibly 5-10 minutes if it’s a
more reflective piece
• Give students short, open-ended statements, or sentence starters
(guide/scaffold)
• Idea is to get students to get their thoughts down and become
conditioned writers who are familiar with reflecting, summarizing and
extending their thoughts
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Additional Ways to Incorporate Writing
● Cornell Notes
● Writing Story Problems
● Dialogue Journals
● Reflection writing
● 4 Corners Summary (model later)
● One-Pagers
● Quick-Writes
● Claim and Evidence (Proposition/Support) on Current Events or Text-Related Discussion Topics
● 3-2-1 Summaries
● Storyboards (Fiction & Nonfiction)
Storyboards and Recycled Stories using
Nonfiction Text
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Purpose & How-To on One-Pagers
*Scaffold & Instructions (handout)*
Purpose…
Steps:
*requires students to visualize what they have
read/investigate a text at a variety of levels
Assign a short text/reading. (We will use the college text
from your folders.)
*collapse MOST IMPORTANT ideas (reinforce main
idea concept, rather than mere summarization)
* Graphical interpretation leads to a stronger
conceptualization of higher-level thinking, ties
concepts together (i.e.THEME)
*Summative Assessment of what students retained
from a text
1.
Ask students to determine 3 sections from the text
that they feel contribute to the author’s overall claim
or THEME.
2.
On a regular sheet of paper (8 ½ x 11 unlined), ask
students to design a one-pager that expresses those
thoughts with words/images.
3.
The one-pager must have the following: title/author,
3+ passages from the text, 1+ graphic
representations, 1 personal response to each
passage selected, a border or decoration as
appropriate.
One-Pager Examples
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Purpose & How-To on Quick Writes
The PURPOSE of a “Quick-Write” is to...
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Give students an open-ended topic they can reflect on (opinions, experiences, D.O.L.)
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Get students to write freely with a focus on their IDEAS (lends authenticity)
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Provide teachers with insight into students’ SCHEMA
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Build background (great pre-reading activity)
Once you give students the topic (prompt)...give students a SET amount of time to write.
The expectations (which you want to practice often until they are ROUTINE) are…
1.
Everyone Writes
2. Stay ON TOPIC
3. There is no right answer!
Student AVID Testimonials
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QUICK WRITE
Add to your quick write –
Reflect on the AVID information you gained today and how this might increase
the RIGOR and COLLEGE AND CAREER READINESS at your campus?
#5s report out
Q&A
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