A lifelong educator, Dot has taught at Copiah-Lincoln Community College, Brookhaven High School, and West Lincoln High School and recently retired as "teacher of the year" at the Mississippi School of the Arts. Through Jumpstart Test Prep, her legacy of helping students will remain intact and allow many others the benefit of her proven approach.ĭot received her Master of Science degree in both chemistry and biological sciences from the University of Mississippi and her Bachelor of Science degree in chemistry with a minor in biological sciences from Mississippi College. She has been inducted into the STAR Teacher Hall-of-Fame and recognized as one of the top five educators in the Mississippi Teacher of the Year program. After more than 40 years of dedication, few professionals are as qualified to provide exam preparation as Dot.ĭot has received numerous school, community, district, and state awards through the years, but says her best award comes when a student says, “I raised my score!” She is humbled and honored to have been selected nineteen years through the STAR teacher program, wherein the top ACT scorer in a school selects his/her most influential teacher. This passion led to helping students prepare for the ACT® through private tutoring and live classroom events. Like many educators, Dot’s passion for teaching was ignited by “seeing the light come on in a student’s eyes,” the exuberant moment when a student finally understands the material. Score improvements by her students have led to acceptances into major universities accompanied by financial scholarships, which has opened the door to higher learning for many who would have never been accepted or able to afford college on their own. She has mastered a technique of explaining difficult content in a way that every student can follow and understand. She is the primary author of the teaching modules in Jumpstart and has found its unique approach helps students of all academic ability levels stay fully engaged and gain the most improvement in the shortest time. She also serves as pastor of Homeseekers Bible Church in Wesson, MS. She has been teaching science and math for 56 years. Jumpstart’s proven, guided review is now being utilized in the classroom by educators in over 120 high schools across seven states and to students around breakfast tables and living room couches across the country.ĭot McClendon is first and foremost a people person.
Jumpstart Test Prep has now helped deliver dramatic exam improvements for tens of thousands of students. She has dedicated more than fifty-five years to teaching and has received many awards - the most prestigious was being inducted into the STAR Teacher Hall of Fame resulting from being selected as STAR Teacher by nineteen students at three different schools.Īfter a lifetime of perfecting and refining her unique approach, Dot’s desire to pass along this knowledge to help students everywhere achieve the most improvement in the least amount of review was coupled with Sha’s desire to design and make that opportunity available online. After having taken the exam six times using other preparation methods, Morgan Walker dramatically improved her ACT® score after completing Dot’s brief classroom review of content tested, tips, strategies, and timed practices.ĭot’s knowledge and expertise in this area is legendary.
She accomplished that for the daughter of Jumpstart’s co-founder and CEO, Sha Walker. Jumpstart Test Prep began with one educator, Dot McClendon, and her passion to help students prepare for and perform better on the ACT® exam.
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