Westwood High School addressed unmet needs by partnering with MLFTC to deploy teacher candidates in new ways. In this document, you’ll get an overview of MLFTC’s approach to teacher candidate apprenticeship, and then you’ll take a closer look at how Westwood’s AVID team is leveraging interns and residents. AVID team interns have highly specific small-group facilitation roles intended to deepen and personalize student learning. Residents co-plan with, co-teach with and receive feedback from all educators on the team, both within and outside of the content area that matches their program of study.