Adelante: A college awareness and preparatory partnership

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Adelante A college awareness and preparatory
partnership
Overview of a three-year partnership

• Enrique Alemán, Jr.
• University of Utah
• Department of Educational Leadership Policy
• November 2007

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Adelantes Origins Rationale

• Created and developed by three U of U professors
  who live in the Rose Park community and are
  experts in educational research and Latina/o and
  Chicana/o educational issues
• The earlier students and their families begin to
  consider college as an option, the more likely
  students are to pursue a higher education
• Based on this important premise, Adelante
  attempts to implement a college awareness and
  preparatory partnership beginning at the earliest
  academic levelkindergarten and continuing
  through sixth grade

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Adelantes Goals

• Adelantes goals are
• To prepare students and their families for
  college by integrating higher education into
  their school experience and into their personal
  lives and,
• To help establish a college-going culture within
  the school and to support the schools efforts to
  promote college awareness and the idea that every
  child has the potential to attend and succeed in
  college

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Overview of the Adelante Partnership

• Developing Partnerships
• University Visits Adelante Club U
• Mentoring/Tutoring
• Parental Support Involvement
• Cultural Enrichment
• Community Development Empowerment
• Research

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Academic Support

• University Visits
• Kindergarten and 1st grade students visited the
  university, and each time they were involved in
  hands-on projects
• Weve had as many as 20 parents on one trip
• Adelante Club U
• Camps are one week of dual-language, hands-on
  activities provided by Youth Education
• Kindergartners will attend Lady Bugs and Lilly
  Pads camp, and 1st graders will attend Space Aces
  camp

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University Mentors

• Most of the current 50 mentors/tutors are first
  generation college students, bilingual
  individuals, come from working-class families,
  from communities similar to Jacksons, and/or are
  immigrants
• Mentors are graduate students from ECS and ELP,
  undergraduates from MEChA, Utah Opportunity
  Scholars, Ronald McDonald Scholars, Larry H.
  Miller Scholars

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Research