Teachers at Compass Charter School are engaging in professional learning to develop their instructional practices in the use of AVID's WICOR strategies. WICOR, is an acronym for Writing, Inquiry, Collaboration, Organization, and Writing.

Organization is paramount to success! For this reason, scholars are expected to maintain an agenda and a homework calendar. Many core classes require scholars to keep up with a weekly agenda that is specific to that core content area. In addition, scholars should be encouraged to maintain a weekly homework calendar / "To Do List." This serves as a time management checklist to help students complete all assignments while considering what other responsibilities they may have in the evenings (i.e. sports, church, etc.). Please see the resources below to help support scholar organization in your classes.

How to WIROCize your lesson plan https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm2X6QyY9WI

At the college level, however, the need to develop significant organizational skills becomes even more critical: the college environment is more complex and demanding, and faculty and staff expect students to be independent, bringing all the necessary management skills with them. In addition to understanding and coping with the differences between high school and college, the most critical skills for new students include: • management of their time and energy; • organizing materials, information, ideas and assignments; • managing resources for navigating the “hidden curriculum”; and • planning effectively for academic assignments and projects while also setting long-term educational, employment and social goals.

Evernote is an app designed for note taking, organizing, tasks lists, and archiving. The app allows users to create notes which can be a piece of formatted text, a webpage or webpage excerpt, a photograph, a voice memo, or a handwritten "ink" note. Notes can also have file attachments. Notes can be sorted into a notebook, tagged, annotated, edited, given comments, searched, and exported.

Evernote is cross-platform, including support for iOS, Android, Microsoft Windows, macOS. Evernote is free to use with monthly usage limits and offers paid plans for expanded or lifted limits.

The AVID Library contains an abundance of information on supporting scholar organization. If you have resources you'd like to share, please let me or someone on the AVID Site Team know. We love learning from one another! As you practice these strategies please give us your feedback and discuss your experience with your colleagues. We want to hear your stories and share the exciting, student-centered learning that is happening in your room!

Math and Science

https://drive.google.com/open?id=1La7HP0wXd_woSo919-nH2kYA6wMvaNe9

Humanities

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1u92QeT2vXxZtny8vc62iZIv16PxNxG6l?usp=sharing

Covey, S. (1989, 2004). The seven habits of highly effective people. New York: Free Press.

Computer vs. paper note taking: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/0956797614524581

Technology in the classroom

https://www.npr.org/2016/04/17/474525392/attention-students-put-your-laptops-away

Evernote: https://evernote.com/

OneNote: https://www.onenote.com/