“Take time to make time.” “Go slow to go fast.” These are common sayings in many classrooms. They speak to the importance of developing routines, building relationships, and learning how…
Design Flexible Lessons for Hybrid Learning
If you design hybrid lessons like you would design a traditional, face-to-face lesson, you will likely end up creating multiple versions of every lesson, with one for each learning group…
Start With the Big Picture When Planning for Hybrid Learning
The COVID-19 pandemic has made the hybrid-learning model a popular way for schools to improve health and safety by reducing the number of students in a classroom. It can also…
Bitly
Bitly is a website that offers free URL shortening. This allows you to take a long, complicated web address and shorten it into one that is easier to remember or…
Connect Positively With Families
Teachers know how important parents and guardians can be to the educational process. After all, these caretakers are our students’ first teachers, and they set the stage for future success…
Digital Templates
Throughout AVID Open Access, we have created digital templates to make the integration of the teaching best practices showcased on the site as easy as possible. Below you will find…
Choose Your Remote-Teaching Platform
While there are offline systems, such as textbooks and worksheets, that can work for remote learning, the most common and effective choices are generally online, digital systems. For that reason,…
Manage Your Teacher Workload in a Remote-Learning World
Teachers often put in many hours of overtime to provide the best education possible for their students. COVID-19 has pressed teachers into new and challenging teaching conditions that have significantly…
#6 – Make the Most of the First Weeks of School
Learning is a social endeavor. While it is impossible to re-create the exact conditions of a physical classroom when teaching virtually, teachers can continue to connect with students (and each…
Enhance Classroom Netiquette and Diminish Cyberbullying
Many things possible today through the use of technology were not possible just a few years, months, days, or even seconds ago. Technology can amplify all types of human behavior….
#11 – Develop Your Students’ Digital Organizational Skills: Study Spaces, Routines, and Time Management
A critical component of every student’s educational journey is learning how to organize—both their physical learning artifacts as well as their thought process. When we add remote learning to the…
Explore Computer Science
AVID Brings You Computer Science Education We sat down with our CEO to ask him some questions about future-driven skills, computer science education, and why he’s so passionate about AVID…
Manage Your Communication: Emails and Notifications
Clear communication is always important in teaching, but it is essential for teachers to clearly and effectively communicate with students and families during hybrid and remote learning. Even with the…
Flip the Learning in Your Classroom
While flipped learning can stand on its own as an effective blended-learning model, it is much more versatile than that. In fact, flipped learning is regularly integrated into nearly every…