This document outlines the slides for an AVID family workshop aimed at connecting families to the school community. The workshop introduces AVID's mission of closing the achievement gap and preparing students for college. Families participate in identity mapping and quickwrites to share what they hope their student's school day looks, sounds, and feels like. They then discuss these visions in small groups and connect them to the school's vision. The workshop concludes by having families set goals for partnering with the school community to support their student's academic, social, and emotional success.

1. Slide 1
Connecting to
Our School Community
An AVID Family Workshop

2. Slide 2
Welcome and Introductions
• <<Include key talking points here.>>

3. Slide 3
AVID’s mission is to close the achievement
gap by preparing all students for college
readiness and success in a global society.

4. Slide 4
Essential Question
CORNELL NOTES
TOPIC/OBJECTIVE: NAME:
CLASS/PERIOD:
DATE:
ESSENTIAL QUESTION:
How can I partner with the school
community to ensure academic, social, and
emotional success for my student?

5. Slide 5
Identity Map
• Using the chart paper, trace
each person’s hand to create a
circle of hands.
• Within each finger of your
traced hand, write something
that you value or treasure
(e.g., friends, music, reading).

6. Slide 6
Identity Map
• Share your values.
• Identify common
themes/categories of
the responses and
write those in the
center.
Arts and
Entertainment
Family

7. Slide 7
Quickwrite
• What do you hope that your student’s school
day looks like, sounds like, and feels like?

8. Slide 8
Table Talk and Share-Out
• Response Frame: “We hope that our student’s
day looks like __________, sounds like
__________, and feels like __________.”

9. Slide 9
Vision Statement
• <<Share the school and district
vision/mission and how the responses
from the groups’ quickwrites connect
with the school and district goals.>>

10. Slide 10
Scavenger Hunt!
• <<Add information about how the Scavenger
Hunt will be conducted.>>

11. Slide 11
High-Five!
• Stand and give two people at your table a
high-five and say…
“We are connected!”

12. Slide 12
Cornell Note Summary
• Create one or two goals using the response
frame and words from the three-column
chart that was created in the opening (look,
sound, feel):
 “We will __________ so that __________. In
order to __________, we must __________.”

13. Slide 13
Next Opportunity to Connect!
• <<Share information about upcoming
opportunities for families to connect with the
school community.>>

14. Slide 14
Thanks!
• <<Include a quote or visual image related to
the content of the workshop and/or current
events from the school.>>