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

AVID (Advancement Via Individual Determination) is a structured college and career readiness course designed to support students' development of inquiry, critical reading, and analytical writing skills. Each week, students in the AVID elective class engage in reading and writing curriculum, tutor-facilitated study groups, collaborative activities and academic success skills. The tools used in this course will help students to be more successful readers, writers, and thinkers in the more rigorous courses in which they will also be expected to enroll (i.e. Advanced and accelerated middle school offerings, Advanced, CTE, AP or Dual high school offerings). The AVID elective class reviews and then builds upon skills learned in prior years of AVID. Potential students will need to apply and interview before being accepted into the elective.

The application for the 2024-2025 AVID class is open through February 20, 2024.

Students may access and submit their application via this link. (Note: The application is only available to GCISD Google accounts, so please be sure students are logged in on their district device to access the link.)

The GCISD AVID team hosted an AVID Family Information Session on February 9, 2024. The presentation and information shared can be viewed here.

Inquiry-based and collaborative, AVID tutorials are a structured routine that takes students through a variety of metacognitive tasks starting with identifying a specific point of confusion all the way through applying its resolution in an academic class. Tutorials are a collaborative environment in which students use the inquiry process and Socratic dialogue to address Points of Confusion from their content classes in order to come to a more complete understanding of what they are learning. Tutorials are student-led but facilitated by a designated tutor. If you are interested in applying for an AVID tutor position in GCISD, please click here.