News on the Horizon
Season for Sharing: Horizons program combats summer learning loss
“What sets us apart from other programs is the way we approach the whole child,” Bacon said. “We make a partnership with the families that we work with for up to 10 to 12 years of their children's lives.”
Coping with Pandemic Trauma
“Wilkerson was leading one of the group counseling sessions provided weekly at Horizons at St. Richard’s Episcopal School, a summer program for students from low-income backgrounds that teaches breathing exercises and yoga along with math and reading.”
How Students Make up for Summer learning Loss
“ Patrice Laura, a reading specialist at Horizons for pre-K through fourth grade, is optimistic that students have learned something about resiliency and being adaptable through all of this, but it’s the students who need one-on-one attention she’s worried about.”
Coping with Pandemic Trauma
“Wilkerson was leading one of the group counseling sessions provided weekly at Horizons at St. Richard’s Episcopal School, a summer program for students from low-income backgrounds that teaches breathing exercises and yoga along with math and reading.”
Horizon's Gives Students a Better Chance at Success
“ The tuition-free program, led by licensed teachers, has been housed in donated space at St. Richard's Episcopal School, 33 E. 33rd St., for 20 years. The community came together in 2015 to match a $25,000 grant from IndyStar, raising enough to add an eighth-grade class and allowing Horizons to move its middle-school grades to Butler in 2016.”
Young Architects Make a Splash
“Over the past several weeks, he and 14 other students in Brittany Hogue's seventh-grade class met with local architects, then developed and constructed four temporary art/play installations at a pocket park at 29th Street and Park Avenue. ”