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Connecting Quincy Gear-Up and Central Washington University
LEAP Online is part of Interactive Technology Services: a technology-based program at Central Washington University aimed at providing supplemental educational services
for secondary students (grades 6-12) in remote communities of Washington State.
Mission Statement and Objectives
Grow a Web-based community whose goal is to mentor sixth through twelve graders to complete high school and continue on to college.
Secondary Students
- Provide academic tutoring over the Web.
- Provide Web-based tools that enable students to voice ideas and feelings, display creative works, plan future scholarship and service activities, and explore career opportunities.
- Use fun and lively Web applications that engage students and foster a sense of belonging to the Giddy-up community.
- Provide computer literacy tips and information.
Mentoring
- Use the Web to enable rural junior and high school students to communicate instantly, directly, and publicly with university mentors.
- Over time, build relationships between the secondary students and their mentors so that both feel a commitment to succeeding academically and making a difference in the world.
- Provide diagnostic tools to inform mentors on how to help.
Administrators
- Provide a safe and secure environment that protects against abuses while respecting privacy rights of students.
- Provide statistical summaries of activities to assess the effectiveness of the Giddy-up community in achieving its objectives.
- Allow for oversight by trained moderators to prevent inappropriate use of the community.
- Provide public visibility to Central Washington University's Civic Engagement activities.
Junior and High School Teachers
- Provide a resource to send students to when students need help.
- Provide a safe way to teach computer literacy to their students.
- Provide a way to communicate with parents.
College Faculty
- Provide service-learning opportunities for college students as mentors and content developers.
Parents
- Encourage involvement in their students' scholarship
- Get parents thinking about their students' academic and career possibilities.