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Gearup_Pr_HIGH_Yarii
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Some students may not fully appreciate the value of dual-credit classes—until they see Yarii’s story. This student (who didn’t even speak English until she was 14) took enough dual-credit courses in high school to actually start college…
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Gearup_Pa_Finaidintr
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
The good news: There’s loads of money out there to help your child pay for college. The bad news: It can be pretty confusing to figure out how to actually access that money. Learn where all the money is and how your teen can snag some to help cover…
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Gearup_C_LettingGo
Grade Range:
11, 12, 13
Make your letting-go process much easier for the whole family by following the helpful tips, tricks, and advice in this detailed guide.
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Gearup_HS_Bookclub
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
In an effort to foster a passion for reading, the ESC Region 12 College Link team started a book club that's gotten their kids going cover to cover like never before. A focus of the club is preparing students for college by developing social…
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Gearup_HS_Collegeroa
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, and we definitely agree. But when it comes to students being able to really place themselves in a college setting, a 3-D experience is even more ideal. And no, we don't mean sending them to an…
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Gearup_HS_Districtle
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Multi-level collaboration is the name of the game with the school admin and staff of Region One ESC GEAR UP. What they're doing (and quite successfully) is having regular interdisciplinary meetings in each district between GEAR UP staffers, teachers,…
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Gearup_HS_Dropoutrec
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
There are students in Bryan who are heading to college despite incredible odds being stacked against them—and that is due in no small part to the efforts of the Bryan ISD GEAR UP team. With a focused, personalized commitment to dropout recovery and…
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Gearup_HS_Disabiliti
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
As a general rule, TXGU'ers tackle issues of a lack of expectation, example, or ambition and go on to an amazing education post-graduation. That goes double for students who have disabilities—and that lack of a dream to strive towards could'…
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Gearup_HS_GUclub
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Some lucky IDEA Public Schools students from the Rio Grande Valley are getting a highly unique taste of college life through the exciting and engaging Transformational College Field Lessons program. These lessons aren't your typical visits to local…
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Gearup_HS_Healthscie
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
When the folks at IDEA Public Schools GEAR UP started hearing that students were wanting to leave to attend more health and science-oriented institutions, they knew they had to come up with an inventive solution or risk losing them all…
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Gearup_HS_Imas
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Heads up! The Investigations in Math and Science (iMAS) Academy and Discover College program are taking college prep to the next level. Held at Stephen F. Austin University, Texas GEAR UP students spend time at the dual-program camp taking a deeper dive…
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Gearup_HS_LVN
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
Nursing's a great job. Nurses perform an incredibly demanding, immensely valuable, and incalculably rewarding service to their community—and it's steady work that requires even steadier minds to go in and git 'er done with compassion and…
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Gearup_HS_Mentalheal
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
When the Texas Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) needed to get the word out about substance abuse and mental health in south Texas, it made perfect sense to partner with TAMIU'S “Creating a Vision” GEAR UP team. For one day,…
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Gearup_HS_Novela
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
If a penny saved is a penny earned, students and parents in Region One ESC GEAR UP are learning how to pull down some serious cash. Family novela-viewing nights in the schools are paired with demonstrations from financial-literacy grant partners to give…
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Gearup_HS_Parentathl
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
The Texas GEAR UP State Grant hosted a Parent & Student Athlete Symposium and scored big time. The focus of the event was to bring kids who play sports together with their biggest fans—their parents—under one roof to talk about the deeper…
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Gearup_HS_Parent2par
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
What happens when parents come together? Greatness. In East Texas, parents are coming together like never before. The launch of a GEAR UP outreach program called Parent2Parent is connecting educators with parents to close the knowledge gap and expand the…
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Gearup_HS_Transition
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
TXGU students in El Paso are feeling double the support these days, with parents getting very in the know about all their college-prep needs. Between an active superintendent getting the word out , dedicated calls from multiple school districts aimed at…
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Gearup_HS_Peermentor
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
When it comes to mentoring, the Central ISD team has hit on a decidedly winning solution: help students to help each other! After trying out different styles of mentoring without seeing the results they were hoping for, the team implemented a peer-mentor…
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Gearup_HS_Phenomenal
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
A great group of gals from ESC Region 12 got the chance to get up close and personal with working women at a Phenomenal Women Career Conference in Temple. Fusing facts with fashion and fun, the day-long conference offered some amazing insight and…
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Gearup_H_Railstrails
Grade Range:
6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12
The forward-thinkers at Region One ESC GEAR UP are using a citywide problem in Rio Hondo to improve the quality of life for its citizens—as well as provide a tremendous opportunity to teach urban planning to some lucky students. After a city planner…