Academic Language and Literacy:
Asset-Based Instruction for All Classrooms
(formerly titled Academic Language and Literacy Architects: Asset-Based Language Building)


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Format
Virtual Virtual
In-person In-person
Initiatives
Literacy
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The Academic Language and Literacy Community of Practice empowers elementary and secondary educators to enhance student engagement and promote access to content for multilingual learners and all who can benefit from targeted language development. This professional learning experience encourages educators to nurture students’ backgrounds, experiences, and language by facilitating skill development in reading, writing, speaking, and listening. Educators will explore integrating AVID’s college and career readiness skills through language-building routines and scaffolded instruction, enabling academic preparedness, opportunity knowledge, and student agency. After completing the Academic Language and Literacy Community of Practice, participants will be equipped to create equitable learning spaces that foster student voice development and promote active contribution in rigorous academic contexts. All strategies, digital activities, and digital tools experienced in this Community of Practice can be leveraged in face-to-face, blended, or virtual learning environments.

This Community of Practice requires all participants to have their own device or laptop that can connect to the internet. Participants must bring an acceptable device, power cord, and earbuds/headphones with them to the session. If a district-issued device is being used, be sure to log in to the device on the district network before attending. Device software and preferred web browsers (Chrome or Firefox) need to be up to date.

  • Acceptable devices include laptops, Chromebooks, Surface devices, iPads, and iPad Pros.
  • Unacceptable devices include mini iPads, Kindle or Galaxy tablets, and smartphones.

Prerequisites

None.
Content Areas
AVID Elective, AVID Excel®, Digital Teaching and Learning, ELA, Elective Educator, History/Social Science, Science
Best For
AVID Site Coordinator, Instructional Coach, Site-Based Administrator, Teacher

This session is available as a part of:

AVID Ignite

Three-day summer virtual professional learning event featuring real-time interaction with facilitators and peers nationwide in both a Community of Practice and a session illustrating ways to extend learning throughout the school year, engage in productive planning, and ignite inspiration campuswide. Plus, time is provided before or after virtual learning for individuals to further reflect or for sites and districts to host their own activities.

Summer Institute

Three-day professional learning hosted at 10 face-to-face locations across the United States during June and July that provides high-paced, interactive, dynamic professional learning while modeling engaging and rigorous instruction.

AVID ElevateXP

Four 3-hour professional learning modules through a virtual platform using videoconferencing provide a high-paced, interactive, dynamic learning experience while modeling engaging and rigorous instruction. There will also be opportunities to engage in One-to-One Collaborative Coaching.

Path

Two-day professional learning hosted at a face-to-face location across the United States yearlong provides an excellent way to broaden or deepen the ongoing improvement of instruction and comprehensive culture of student success within your school setting.