Gear Up College Outreach

Sunnyside Field Trip to the University of Arizona

Dr. Roberto Rodriguez, a.k.a Dr. Cintli spoke to Mr. Siqueiro's junior U.S History class from Sunnyside High School. He showed a clip of his film Amoxtli san ce tojuan: we are one: nosotros somos uno, before handing out copies to members of the class and Mr. Siqueiros.



Instead of posting more pictures with very little in the way of context, I'm attempting to integrate a simple power point I put together from the day's events.

Click on this Link to the Power Point

Thanks to Darcy Felix & Dr. Rodriguez in Mexican American/Raza Studies Dept, as well as Faith Kurtyka, Nicole Esquivel, Mel Agostini, Melissa Rodriguez & friends for all of your help.

Gear Up in the News

Writing Centers in Tucson schools

Taken from today's UA news story:
"UA College of Humanities graduate students with the GEAR UP Program help Sunnyside Unified High School students mentor their 10th grade peers with writing skills" (by Rebecca Ruiz-McGill)

The article does a nice job of highlighting some of the hard work of Gear Up team member Rachael Wendler and Desert View teacher Maria Elena Wakamatsu.

Read the rest of the article

Wildcat Writers

Service Learning/Outreach

GEAR UP has partnered up with the service learning outreach program Wildcat Writers in order to consolidate resources, making it easier for UA and local Tucson high school teachers already familiar with either program.

Some pics from last year's Wildcat Writers campus event

Last night I attended the Arizona Assurance Scholars Program dinner and met with one of the incoming freshmen who I'll be mentoring. It already seems like a really great program. All of the students I met seem really motivated, even if they're experiencing all of the first week of college mishaps like losing computer cords and printing out tons of pdfs...

(picture by Arezu Corella)

This summer I worked with one of the Assurance peer mentors, so I already know that this program will be continue to be successful.

Academic Outreach

GEARing UP

This fall, I'll be taking part in the Gaining Early Awareness and Readiness for Undergraduate Programs here in the Tucson and Sunnyside school districts. The program is in the 5th year of a 6 year grant, so it's 'go time' to get these students ready for college writing.

There's so much for me to learn about methods and approaches to outreach, so I imagine I'll be periodically posting new concepts that I encounter, as well as the activities that I'll find myself taking part in/organizing on behalf of the U.S Department of Education.