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The PACERS Program is an intensive mentoring and academic support program designed to help under-performing students with personal, social and academic success. PACERS provides longitudinal intervention starting during the freshman year and ending at high school graduation.
Named by the students it serves, the PACERS (Positive Achievement and Creativity Equals Righteous Success) program is a mentoring program designed to help reduce the achievement gap with underperforming students at Rock Island High School. The students come from a variety of racial/ethnic groups and varying socioeconomic conditions. The power of the program lies in the ability of the mentors to help the students achieve academic and social success.
Four-Pronged Approach:
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Weekly Group Meetings
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Individual/Group Mentoring Sessions
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Academic Support Services
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Individual Counseling With the AT&T Foundation Grant, services expanded to enhance academic and life skills.
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School Supplies Mentoring
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Academic Support
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Dress for Success Field Trips Service Activities
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Summer School
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Leadership/Life Skills Training End of the Year Awards Banquet
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Job Shadowing
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Career Planning College visits
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17 Principles of Success
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Goals Mastermind Alliance Overcoming Adversity Going the Extra Mile Motivation Pleasing Personality
ttendance ehavior redits
• Class of 2012 – 2008-2009: 99 total days unexcused absent – 2011-2012: 3 total days unexcused absent • Class of 2013 – 2009-2010: 38 total days unexcused absent – 2011-2012: 6 total days unexcused absent • Class of 2014 – 2010-2011: 45 total days unexcused absent – 2011-2012: 7 total days unexcused absent
• Class of 2012 – 2008-2009: 304 total discipline referrals – 2011-2012: 50 total discipline referrals • Class of 2013 – 2009-2010: 248 total discipline referrals – 2011-2012: 96 total discipline referrals • Class of 2014 – 2010-2011: 249 total discipline referrals – 2011-2012: 123 total discipline referrals
o Class of 2012 o Increase of .8 in GPA from 9 th -12 th Grade o Class of 2013 Average GPA: o Increase of .36 in GPA from 9 th -11 th Grade o Class of 2014 Average GPA: o Increase of .21 in GPA from 9 th -10 th Grade o Since fall semester 2008, PACERS students have appeared on the Rock Island High School Honor Roll 18 times
River Bend Food Pantry Spring 2012
AT&T Check Presentation End of the Year Six Flags Trip Quad City Youth Conference Job Shadowing at John Deere
Bi-Annual Newsletter Fall 2011 Newsletter
Event Invitations
Webpage http://www.wiu.edu/coehs/qc/cned/pacers/
Dr. Holly Nikels, Grant Program Administrator Jennifer Page, RIHS Counselor
Staff
Leslie Scheck Graduate Assistant Diane Heisner, Budget Manager
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Mentors
Tadd Birditt Susy Birditt Toni Birditt Gail Brooks Justin Johnson Christina Martin • • • • Torria Norman Mike O’Neil Keith Rice Charles Swift