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Promotes Academic Excellence In Key Urban Zip Codes

The MIMS Institute
LLC is a public service resource that promotes academic excellence in key urban
zip codes.

Individual Family Support – Freshmen

Scenesetter

For every 100 9th
Graders, 82 don’t make it to earn an associate’s degree within
3 years or a B.A. within 6 years.

Tough Choices or Tough
Times,

National
Center for Education and the Economy

“We need a new
mindset, a new set of attitudes – because one of the most durable and
destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we’ve internalized
a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so
little from the world and from themselves…. No one has written your
destiny for you. Your destiny is in your hands – you cannot forget
that. That’s what we have to teach all of our children. No
excuses.”

President
Barack Obama

Address
to NAACP Convention, July 2009

Opportunities for High School Freshmen

·
Plan to graduate with six or more Advanced
Placement classes

·
Revise and/or update planned high school classes
(electronic Pupil Education Planner – ePEP at Facts.org)

·
Review documents like the Student Handbook and
Curriculum Guide for “hidden opportunities”

·
Discussion with current juniors and seniors who
were “ignorant” of the high school opportunities until it was too
late

·
are benefiting from rigorous high school academic programs

Goal for Freshmen: Prepare for high school success
in rigorous academic classes

·
Ask and discuss the Phillip Jackson Questions

·
Review current Edline class reports

·
Review ePEP planner and provide recommendations

·
Use PSAT Score Report and online resources to improve academic and
test-taking skills

·
Deliverable:  Individual Course
of Action Plan by end of February 2010 for high school success and possibly
beyond in the following Outcome areas:

o
Academic Rigor; Community Service; Postsecondary (college)
Opportunities; Leadership Development;
Local Support

The Bottom Line related to our observations and experiences during the
first decade of the 21st Century:

The transfer of information about
exceptional academic opportunities sometimes changes outcomes for students from
urban zip codes and guides them toward a path to make significant contributions
to the United States of America and the communities in which they live.

...The fruit of LOVE is SERVICE. The
fruit of SERVICE is PEACE.

Mother Teresa's
Business Card