'Motivated' is key to success 

Heidi Klosterman, center, worked with Jasmine Demsko-Khan, left, and Lilian Milbourn at St. Cecilia Academy in South St. Louis. The NativityMiguel model school includes extended school days and extended academic years, effective student guidance, tuition assistance, mandatory parental and community involvement and four years of structured post-graduate support. A dinner June 8 will raise scholarship funds to benefit graduates of St. Louis’ seven NativityMiguel middle schools. The event is a collaboration of ACCESS Academies, which operates four middle schools, plus De La Salle Middle School, Loyola Academy and Marian Middle School.