Victoria Hernandez, a first-year teacher, shares the lessons, surprises, and growth that come with navigating a first year on the job.

All AVID Open Access Classroom Resources
Writing Your First Draft New!
Use technology to assist you in writing your first draft.
Pre-Writing: Organization New!
Explore mind mapping, outlining, and storyboarding as strategies to organize ideas in the pre-writing phase of the writing process.
#388 – Strategic Lesson Design, with Tracie McMurray New!
Tracie McMurray shares how the AVID Certified Educator program strengthened her classroom practices and renewed her desire to teach.
#387 – Tech in the Writing Process: Pre-Writing, Gathering Ideas and Content New!
Explore strategies for researching, generating citations, and note-taking during the writing process.
#386 – The Importance of Inquiry in Learning, with Trevor MacKenzie New!
Trevor MacKenzie, an author, educator, and inquiry consultant, explains the powerful role of curiosity and inquiry in learning.
#385 – Tech in the Writing Process: Pre-Writing, Generating Preliminary Ideas
Explore how technology can be integrated into the second part of the pre-writing process: generating preliminary ideas.
#10 – Anxiety-Less at Work, with Jacqueline Lopez
Jacqueline Lopez returns to the AVIDly Adulting podcast and shares her perspectives on the impact of anxiety in the workplace and strategies for overcoming it.
Pre-Writing: Research, Citations, and Note-Taking
Explore pre-writing strategies that include researching, generating citations, and note-taking.
Pre-Writing: Generating Preliminary Ideas
Explore technology and strategies that students can use when generating preliminary ideas during the pre-writing stage of the writing process.
#384 – Integrating WICOR®, with Kera Diller
AVID Site Coordinator Kera Diller shares strategies for implementing AVID’s WICOR methodology—which incorporates Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Reading—in K–12 classrooms.
#383 – Tech in the Writing Process: Pre-Writing, Clarifying Your Writing Task
Explore how technology can be integrated into the first part of the pre-writing process: clarifying your task and choosing a topic.
#382 – Future Ready Schools, with Thomas Murray
Thomas Murray dives into the evolving landscape of Future Ready Schools, while detailing free resources from All4Ed that are available to schools.
#381 – Writing to Learn
Explore tech-enriched strategies to facilitate writing to learn.
#9 – Stress-Less at Work, with Jacqueline Lopez
Jacqueline Lopez, a PhD Graduate Researcher at the University of Nevada, Reno, discusses the impact of stress on mental health and work performance.