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Garrett County Public Schools
Garrett College has been a GEAR UP partner with the two middle schools in Garrett County, Northern and Southern, and now partners with Northern and Southern high schools. Representatives from the institutions serve on the GEAR UP advisory board, playing an important role in assessing student and school needs and in developing long-term program plans. Representatives from Garrett County Public Schools and Garrett College have cooperatively integrated GEAR UP activities into the school day. For example, the site offers an advisor/advisee period weekly at both high schools to provide career and college development, character education, dropout prevention strategies and academic remediation. The program also integrates college awareness information into career development activities, offers hands-on science and mathematics activities, links student participation in cultural activities to the school curriculum, provides staff development, and coordinates tutoring and other supplemental academic activities.
86 Pride Parkway Accident Maryland 21520 310-746-8668
345 Oakland Drive Oalkland, Maryland 21550 301-334-9447
Ms. JoAnn Vent, Supervisor Career Technology Education Garrett County
Public Schools 301-334-8916 Fax Mr. Kurt Lear, Gear Up Coordinator Project Title: GEAR UP from High School to College Project Director: James Allen Garrett Community College 687 Mosser Road McHenry, MD 21541 Project Abstract: Working in partnership with Garrett County GEAR UP, Garrett College has developed a program of activities for students, parents and teachers that focuses on the cohort of eleventh-grade students attending Garrett County’s two high schools. The project is designed to target primarily the most economically and academically disadvantaged students from the cohort. A tutoring and mentoring program staffed by college students, academic enrichment activities conducted by college faculty, and a summer academics camp are some of the activities provided by the grant to help improve student performance in core academic subjects. Several other activities are designed to provide students with information on career choices and planning for further education beyond high school. The students’ families will be provided with information on financial planning for college and college admissions criteria. In addition, the project included a professional development activity in which teachers discuss the new SAT requirements for a written essay and the inclusion of Algebra II material in the quantitative portion of the exam.
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