I would like to share a letter from a parent that Susan Barton recently posted as it concerns an issue which I have also had many parents address. “We started our journey in first grade, when our daughter’s teacher shared that she was not grasping reading concepts as fast as she should. I was shocked …
Our 40th Summer Tutoring Program wrapped up on July 16th. For 2021, we offered a mixed format with 15 students participating in-person on our campus and 33 students participating virtually. ReadingCorps members, who throughout the year work with our students across 17 school-based reading labs through an innovative partnership between the Settlement, local school districts, and the …
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The Settlement School has been offering an after-school tutoring program for over 40 years now. For 12 years, we have been using the Susan Barton Method for Reading and Spelling. The program has garnered success amongst our students, allowing them to thrive in their school work. The Barton Method consists of 10 different levels beginning …
In 2020, the Hindman Settlement School received an AmeriCorps grant, which allowed us to hire up to 40 full-time tutors to serve in Knott, Perry and Leslie county schools. Many of these tutors began service in August regardless of the consistency of school closures due to the Coronavirus pandemic. Last week, our tutors were asked …
This year has brought plenty of adversity, but each challenge has only offered us an opportunity to show our adaptability. The dyslexia program has operated for decades in-person, but Coronavirus changed everything. Our dyslexia program had to transform quickly to meet the needs of children with dyslexia in this new virtual world. Nonetheless, the Dyslexia …
