All AVID Open Access Classroom Resources

This week, our guest is Natasha Monsaas-Daly, Director of Information and Learning Technology for Watertown-Mayer Schools. She shares how her small, rural district integrates rigorous and authentic instruction, with quality technology tools.

Explore how to engage students in virtual field trips to provide rich learning opportunities, develop a broader perspective of the world around them, and a deeper understanding through shared experiences that may be otherwise unattainable.

Deepen your understanding of decomposition and algorithmic thinking and how you can use both to help your students become better problem solvers and better understand the world around them.

Explore how to connect your students to classroom around the world to help them become effective global collaborators.

Use digital tools to add your finishing touches, conduct one final check, and then publish your finished project to your audience.

Our guest has experienced what it means to lead a school district through a year of unprecedented obstacles. Tune into our conversation with Dr. Dan Bittman, Superintendent of ISD 728 in Minnesota, for a discussion of how challenges became opportunities to provide care and support to the community.

Welcome to Teacher Insights! This week, our guest is Kaia Tomokiyo, a kindergarten teacher from Renton Unified School District in Renton, Washington. Kaia shares her strategies for introducing creativity and choice with our youngest learners.

Explore how to invite virtual guest speakers to engage and inspire your students.

Use digital tools to analyze your writing, identify mechanical issues, and help you create a polished final draft.

Begin to develop an understanding of computational thinking and why we should be teaching it to every student.

Use technology to efficiently and effectively improve the content, organization, and coherence of your writing.

Using a Fuzzy Friend, students will be introduced to algorithmic thinking and following sequential steps.

Explore how students can learn more about renewable energy and how it can improve the quality of life for those around us.

While the past year resulted in disruption in schooling, as we look forward, can we shift the focus of the national dialogue from learning loss to accelerating learning? Join us as we talk with Dr. Lynn Kepp, Vice President of Executive Communication and Project Management Office at AVID Center, about how AVID is shifting the conversation to focus on student agency.

Have students explore the expansion of the universe with this lesson where they will graph real data for given galaxies to calculate the age of the universe.