College Ready
This three-letter test was once a requirement for many college admissions but is now optional at many schools.
What is the SAT?
This federal initiative, sponsored through TSC and Gadsden County Schools, supports middle and high school students who are from first-generation families with income restrictions.
What is the Educational Talent Search (ETS)?
“Summer slide” refers to the academic learning loss that can happen during this school break.
What is summer vacation?
This word means “a guess based on evidence,” often used in essays and discussions.
What is an inference?
In math, this is the value that appears most frequently in a data set.
What is the mode?
This form must be filled out to apply for federal financial aid for college.
What is the FAFSA?
These are the grade levels TSC’s ETS program serves in Gadsden County schools, ranging from these lower grades through seniors.
What are 6th through 12th grade?
On average, students can lose up to this many months of math skills over the summer without academic engagement.
What is two to three months?
A word that means “clear, logical, and convincing,” often describing an argument or essay.
What is coherent?
This U.S. president issued the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863.
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
This type of college degree usually takes two years to complete and is often earned at a community college.
What is an associate degree?
Each year, approximately this many middle and high school students in Gadsden County receive free college, career, and financial aid counseling through TSC’s ETS.
What is 500 students?
Reading just this many books over the summer has been shown to help prevent the summer slide in literacy.
What is 4 to 6 books?
This academic word means “to examine something in detail to understand it better.”
What is analyze?
In English class, this term refers to the central idea or message in a piece of writing.
What is the theme?
This document includes your grades, GPA, and class rank and is sent to colleges during the application process.
What is a transcript?
TSC’s Educational Talent Search serves students from these seven Gadsden County schools, including Crossroad Academy Charter School and West Gadsden Middle School.
What are Crossroad Academy, Carter Parramore, Gadsden Elementary Magnet, Gadsden County High School, Havana Magnet, Shanks Middle, West Gadsden Middle
Low-income students are often more affected by summer slide because they have less access to these kinds of enrichment activities.
What are camps, libraries, tutoring, and academic programs?
If something is “ambiguous,” it has this quality, meaning it can be understood in more than one way.
What is unclear or having multiple interpretations?
This part of the cell is known as the “powerhouse” because it produces energy.
What is the mitochondrion?
These brief essays, often required by colleges, allow students to explain who they are beyond grades and test scores.
What are personal statements?
In September 2021, TSC’s ETS received this amount in federal grant funding to prepare Gadsden County students for college success.
What is $1.3 million?
This federally funded program provides meals and sometimes academic or enrichment activities during the summer to reduce the effects of learning loss and food insecurity.
What is the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP)?
This advanced word means “the art of effective speaking or writing,” and is often studied in debate and English classes.
What is rhetoric?
In geometry, this is the formula for finding the area of a triangle.
What is ½ × base × height?