California GEAR UP e-Newsletter

One of the most exciting and dynamic school-based services offered to California GEAR UP middle schools is facilitation. Facilitation supports GEAR UP Leadership Teams by providing schools with a trained facilitator to guide the conversations as the team moves the process of creating a college-going culture into the wider school improvement effort.

Evaluation data of middle schools participating in California GEAR UP during the past 5 years indicates that schools integrating the GEAR UP process into the on-going school improvement efforts are able to focus faculty and families on student achievement, expectations and college.