AVID DigitalXP: Academic Language Building

Academic Language and Literacy Architects is designed to engage elementary through postsecondary educators in becoming language architects. This session will provide educators with resources to cultivate and maintain a learning system that insists on rigor, breaks down barriers, aligns the work, and advocates for students. Through the implementation of language-building routines and scaffolded instruction, educators will explore how they support students in using their voice, culture, identity, and language to access and produce rigorous and language-rich content. They will leverage AVID’s college and career readiness skills by coaching students to nurture and grow their own student agency, opportunity knowledge, and rigorous academic preparedness. During this three-day 17-hour virtual learning experience comprised of pre-work, synchronous work, and semi-synchronous work, participants will be able to: • Create and maintain equitable learning spaces that honor the assets of their students’ culture, identity, and language to increase academic success in rigorous content. • Provide instruction and scaffolding that supports the development of student voice in order to raise the level of academic dialogue and student agency. • Utilize a systematic and scaffolded approach to disciplinary literacy that will engage students as language architects in accessing, reading, comprehending, and questioning rigorous content-specific texts for taking ownership of and advancing the learning. • Strategically implement authentic disciplinary writing strategies to scaffold and enhance student learning and success as well as engage students as they write for a range of rigorous academic purposes.