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Summer Film Institute – Now in its second year, Chicago Teachers' Center Summer Film Institute is developing into a robust and rigorous program where students learn about careers in multimedia, while developing skills that will help them in any career environment. "They give you responsibilities and deadlines," says José. Read more. |
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Bon Voyage for GEAR UP Grads
GEAR UP has helped more than 5000 students in Chicago neighborhoods graduate from high school this year. To learn more about some of the notable achievements, read the press release. |
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Summer Film Institute – Now in its second year, Chicago Teachers' Center Summer Film Institute is developing into a robust and rigorous program where students learn about careers in multimedia, while developing skills that will help them in any career environment. "They give you responsibilities and deadlines," says José.Read more. |
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Bon Voyage for GEAR UP Grads
GEAR UP has helped more than 5000 students in Chicago neighborhoods graduate from high school this year. To learn more about some of the notable achievements, read the press release. |
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GEAR UP Kickoff for Teachers With new funding through the Department of Education, Chicago GEAR UP is able to add over 20 schools. Teachers spend the weekend at a conference learning about GEAR UP opportunities and experiencing high quality professional development in literacy and math. Read more. |
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GEAR UP Creating a Pipeline to College When colleges and universities are looking to recruit students, they’re learning that GEAR UP students are a good choice. On March 22, recruiters from 25 institutions gathered at De Paul University to learn about GEAR UP. Read more. |
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Students Explore Literature and Publishing with Upstate Author
“College didn’t save me, but it gave me more options,” says author Kalisha Buckhanon to a group of young adult readers, members of a book club at Little Village High School that their GEAR UP mentor and coach, Khadeejah Lasuc, has organized for them to explore a range of topics that will help prepare them for the transition to college. Read more. |
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GEAR UP Student Wins Laptop for College Erik sat at one of the many round tables in a large gathering space set up for Clemente's Senior Celebration. The room was full of other seniors who would soon be graduating, but Erik sat silently staring at a sheet of paper he was holding in his hand. He was in shock. He had just won a new Dell lap top computer, which he'd be getting in a few weeks from GEAR UP. Right now the paper was enough, showing a picture of the laptop with all of the latest gadgetry and functionality. He could hardly take his eyes off the picture as he spoke about going to Elmhurst College next year. Read more. |
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Discovering Health Care Careers On Senior Celebration Day at Clemente High School, Maria had just come from giving blood in the morning. The site of blood is nothing new to Maria who was able to observe an actual surgery during the Discovering Health Care Careers program at Children’s Memorial Hospital. She learned about the GEAR UP program from Mayra Vega, her CPS GEAR UP postsecondary coach. Read more. |
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GEAR UP Creating a Pipeline to College When colleges and universities are looking to recruit students, they’re learning that GEAR UP students are a good choice. On March 22, recruiters from 25 institutions gathered at DePaul University to learn about GEAR UP. Read more. |
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CTC Helps Teachers Design Rigorous Curriculum What does a rigorous curriculum look like? April Tondelli, a teacher at Clemente High School has been working with Chicago Teachers’ Center (CTC) professional development coach Germania Solórzano to explore that question. Read more. |
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ACT Prep Combined with College Visits Over Spring Break Create a Winning Combination
Roosevelt University, a GEAR UP Alliance partner hosted an ACT Test Prep class during spring break for GEAR UP students from Hope and Hyde Park Academy. Read more. |
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GEAR UP Students Learn about Careers in Construction |
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iMATHination Conference for Teachers Focuses on Relevance in the Curriculum Why learn math? - is a question teachers are always trying to answer for their students. Research shows that students learn better when they believe that the subject has relevance to their lives. This year's conference had a strong focus on demonstrating to teachers and students that relevance. View Slide Show. |
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A New Attitude Makes College Possible Walking into the GEAR UP office at Michele Clark High School is one of the bright stars of the senior class, but it didn’t start out that way for Toni. She began her high school career less than focused and admits that she had attitude – not the kind that gets a student into college. Then she found a mentor, GEAR UP Site Liaison, Rhonda Thomas. Read more. |
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Chicago GEAR UP Student Awarded Science Scholarship Last summer, Rafael got a call from his GEAR UP coaches, Keith Lewis and Khadeejah Lasuc. Was he interested in coming in over the summer to learn more about a special scholarship focused on helping Latinos interested in math and science? The answer was yes. One 500 word essay and application later, Rafael was the proud recipient of a $5000 scholarship from the AHTEMS Foundation. Read more. |
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GEAR UP Student Wins Posse Scholarship |
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Student Discovers Health Care Career Through GEAR UP Through GEAR UP support of Discovering Health Care Careers, an internship program at Children's Memorial Hospital, Isabel Castrejon found her career path. She is currently employed as a nursing assistant while working on her degree in nursing at the University of Illinois. She was recently featured in a Sun Times article. Read more. |
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GEAR UP Staff Meet GEAR UP staff met in November to share best practices and learn more about the college application process, financial aid, and scholarships. The meeting took place at Daley, one of the community colleges of Chicago. GEAR UP staff met with Daley president, Dr. Jose Aybar and Dean of Student Services, Dr. Gayle Ward, to learn more about special programs and services which will help students transition successfully. Read more. |
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Life After High School The first cohort group of Chicago GEAR UP students has reached their senior year and now teachers, students and parents are learning strategies for solidifying plans for a successful transition. GEAR UP presented two fall 2010 conferences to explore transition plans, one for teachers and a second conference for students and teachers. As a student with special needs, Jasmine and her mother learned some strategies at the conference that will help her reach her college goal. |
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Planning a College and Career Fair Thinking of planning a college career fair at your high school? Chicago GEAR UP's Khadeejah Lasuc knows exactly what is needed to make a college career fair a success. She has been hosting the event at Little Village High Schools for several years. Proper planning makes all the difference. Developing targeted goals for the students helps them make the most of the day. Ms. Lasuc shares her plans for planning the perfect fair. Read more. |
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GEAR UP Summer Programs 2010 GEAR UP sponsored a variety of summer programs this year to meet student needs: College Quest, where students experienced life on campus while taking classes to prepare for college, classes at three of the City Colleges of Chicago, where students received a 1/2 credit for taking an elective class, credit recovery classes, college trips, the 1st Summer Film Institute, and classes for teachers. Learn more. |
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1st Annual Math, Science and Technology Student and Family Conference 2010 Making the learning interactive, meaningful and fun was essential to the organizers of the conference and for students like Ruby, from Roosevelt High School, who said that math is her least favorite subject, but she decided to come out for the day and give it a try. Learn more. |
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Teachers Win Golden Apple
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Student Leadership
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College Trips |
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Kelvyn Park |
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iMATHination Conference |
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Summer Program |
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