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Girls can complete middle school coursework, earn high school credit, or retake courses to earn grade forgiveness and improve their G.P.A. There is no charge to attend PACE.
To contact PACE Pinellas call 727-456-1566 or click here for more contact information. If you are interested in attending PACE, have a girl in your life that you believe would benefit from PACE, or you are in a school or other social service organization and know someone who would benefit from PACE, please complete the following referral form and fax it to 727-456-1570.
Pictured: Kayla Taylor, Debra Yakubovsky (PACE Reading Teacher), La'Kayla Hancock, and Linda Damsky (DOP Literacy Coach for Pinellas County Schools).
On May 6th, 2013, the President and CEO of Achieve3000 awarded the literacy achievements made by students in the Pinellas County School District. The ceremony was held at Pinellas Park High School. Three PACE girls (Kayla Taylor, La’Kayla Hancock, and Taylor Natale) were honored for having increased their lexile scores by at least 75 percent.
Achieve3000 provides differentiated online instruction to enable significant reading growth, which is especially important to meet the increased demands of the Common Core State Standards.
PACE is seeing an increased enthusiasm towards Science projects & learning, that led to the creation of our first ever, PACE Ocean Science Team. PACE recently had 6 girls participate in the National Ocean Science Bowl. NOSB is a national academic competition that challenges high school students in marine science knowledge including topics such as: marine biology, chemistry, physics and geology. Our team competed against 13 other schools from the South Florida region in the Spoonbill Bowl on the USF St Petersburg campus in February 2013. Way to go Science Team!
*In Her Words...are unedited stories written by PACE students. A different essay will be highlighted each week.
May 14, 2013
Wisdom, Courage, Honor, Friendship and Respect is what comes in life in many different ways, but here in this place I found it all. What place? You may ask that one place is called PACE.
See I'm a new student at PACE and I thought that I wasn't going to fit in with the rest but it turns out I do. I'm here for many reason's like for example I skipped school for almost two months and I thought to my self why bother to keep trying I'm gonna fail anyways. Well it turns out that because I came to PACE I just might pass and go on to my senior year.
You are invited to visit the PACE Center to learn about the program that is empowering our girls and making a difference in their lives. Programs and tours are offered throughout the year and last just one hour. You will have the opportunity to learn about our program, meet one or more of our girls and tour our facility. Friends, neighbors, family and co-workers are welcome to accompany you! Please contact Carla Mattern at (727) 456-1566, extension 229, or e-mail to
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to schedule your visit today!
Take any major North-South highway to Park Blvd. At 55th Street (Church's Chicken is at the corner), turn south, then take the first right - PACE fronts the alleyway located 1/2 block south of Park Blvd.
Are you a member or program chair of a group? We would be happy to host a special "Believing in Girls" program and tour here at our center for your group, or we can bring our program to your meeting location. Please call or e-mail Carla with your information.