Gear UP is visiting Walla Walla Community College
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"Gear
Up" at Garrison
Gear UP is visiting Walla Walla Community College
Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs
A local/Federal Match Grant from the Department of Education-Postsecondary Division.
Motto - "College: It's Not a Dream! It's a PLAN!
WSU "Harvest of Hope" Project Partners
College Place, Moses Lake, Soap Lake, Warden, Walla Walla, Prescott, Touchet, NLA - Northwest Learning and Achievement Group, WSU, WWCC, SEMY (Secondary Education for Migrant Youth), Broetje Farms, and Strategic Learning Center.
GEAR UP Mission - To ensure that all middle school students in a GEAR UP project cohort (7th and 8th grade students) are prepared to pursue post secondary education.
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Project Objectives 1) Improve and accelerate student's academic achievement so they are prepared to enter and succeed in post secondary education. By assisting with trained tutors in classrooms and an after school program from 3:00-6:00PM Monday-Thursday. 2) Educate students and their families about post secondary education and help them learn to plan. WWCC is hiring a Community/Family Coordinator for this position. 3) Improve the motivation and capacity of teachers to help students improve and accelerate their learning to higher standards. Mr. Sporleder is working on obtaining money from the grant to assist in teacher training. 4) Build strategic alliance of partners to build capacity to sustain these efforts significantly beyond the grant period. Gear Up will have multiple partners collaborating for project success such as; YMCA, CCY, YWCA, and others, to establish a positive rapport in the community. |
Direct Services for Students
1) After School Program
Serve 25% of each class for 130 hours for each student. This comes to about 110 students for 130 hours each.
2) Trained tutors to assist, during, after school, summer, field trips, and some holidays.
3) Incentive educational field trips.
A trip to U of W for 30-40 students staying a week in college dorms to experience what it would be like. Gear up is also going to tie in with The Weekend field trip to Camp Wooten, and the field trip for the 7th graders to Seattle on Oceanography.
4) Leadership opportunities through community service activities.
5) Student Portfolios - captured on CD Rom.
6) Technology - computers, software and specialized training (PLATO, Lightspan)