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moted the advanced partnership the
school is developing with Self-En-
h a n ce m e n t, Inc. S tu d e n ts at
Jefferson will have regular access to
every student is going to want to the programs and facilities at SEI,
succeed. The expectations for ev­ which founder Tony Hopson pro­
ery student are going up.”
moted passionately.
The Middle College program will
With student access to PCC and
also include a technical program SEI, Hopson said the school is
established for specific trades such primed for success.
as becoming an Emergency Medi­
“I can see this being THE school
cal Technician.
to attend in just a couple years,”
W hile last Saturday’s public Hopson told the audience, which
meeting at Jefferson promoted the included several dozen SEI stu­
Middle College program, it also pro- dents. “Everyone is going to want
Middle College Point Man
continued
from fron t
“The Middle College isn’t some­
thing they’ll get to until their junior
or senior year, but it’s part of the
curriculum,” says Hickok. “The pro­
gram is designed to get students
prepared to succeed in college even
at the most basic level.”
The district will learn this month
what the public’s first reaction to
the new focus school is as students
within the Jefferson attendance
boundary register to attend either
Jefferson or one of the neighboring
comprehensive curriculum schools
- Roosevelt, Madison or Grant.
Benson Polytechnic High School
and the Harriet Tubman Leadership
Academy for Young Women are
other focus school options for
Jefferson attendance area students.
The registration process for at­
tending Jefferson begins Friday and
runs through Feb. 28.
“When you think about what
college costs these days, that’s a
tremendous amount of money you
can save,” Gatewood says. “If you
transfer those credits into the Uni­
versity of Oregon, it’s like $ 16,000,
and that’s just one year.”
The current Middle College for­
mat is also available, and will con­
tinue to be available to students at
Roosevelt High.
While the Middle College can be
a cost savings for students looking
to save money on their advanced
studies, it’s also designed to attract
students who are not headed to
college - at least not when they
register. These students will still be
required to attend two classes at
PCC. School and campus officials
say it’s these students who are likely
to draw the most jeward from educa­
tors on both campuses, Jefferson
and PCC.
“Middle College is set up to show
to go to Jefferson.”
Hickok says he’s excited about
the Jefferson’s future, especially
because he oversaw more than a
dozen students from the I Have A
Dream Foundation there prior to
moving to the Middle College pro­
gram.
“When I took this job, it was
originally only for nine months, but
I loved the idea,” he says. “I loved
working with the people at Jefferson,
I live down the street and this is my
kids neighborhood school. This
school is very important to me.”
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Tony Hopson, Self Enhancement president and chief executive
officer, addresses more than 250 students and family members
packed into the Jefferson High School library Saturday for informa­
tion about the future Jefferson High School Middle College for
Advanced Studies.
Jefferson has had a Middle Col­
lege program since 2007, when the
school district and PCC teamed up
and hired Hickok and an assistant to
locate students and manage them
through the program. The students
attended classes at PCC in addition
to their regular studies, either at
night or in summer. Virtually all of
these students have been at an ad­
vanced level in their courses and
more than 85 percent successfully
complete their classes.
At Jefferson High - Middle Col­
lege for Advanced Studies, students
will attend PCC as part of the cur­
riculum by simply walking across
Killingsworth for those classes.
When the class ends, they’ll walk
back to Jefferson and continue their
day. Their curriculum can include as
many as 15 classes (45 credits) at no
cost.
If students elect, they can also
take 15 additional classes in the
evening or summer, again at no cost,
and graduate with as many as 90
credits, which can be transferred to
schools across the nation. PCC pro­
moted free credits as a major selling
point to the program.
the kids who think they’re headed
to college what it’s like, especially
the speed of classes ... that you
might have an assignment to read 60
pages in a night and then remember
what you just read,” says Hickok, a
G rant High graduate who has
worked for Upward Bound and the
I Have a Dream Foundation. “But
some kids don't have the idea they
can actually go and succeed there.
Some students who took just one
class with me here, are going here
now and that’s an equal success
story.”
While students with little or no
exposure to a college dream will
attract plenty of attention from edu­
cators at Jefferson school eager for
them to succeed, their expectations
will be that those students will want
to succeed.
“W e’re going to provide the sup­
port our students need, and that
might involve me staying in touch
with the instructor and telling them
they’ve got a Middle College stu­
dent in their class and to talk to me
if there seems to be an issue like
they're not showing up,” Hickok
says. “But we’re going to expect
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