Late last month we celebrated our 47th annual Appalachian Writers’ Workshop with about 100 faculty, staff, guests, and students coming to campus from across the region and country to learn from celebrated writers and to enjoy being in community with each other. About 1/3 of the attendees were first timers and we were happy to […]
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In late July, our team of AmeriCorps members came together for an end-of-year celebration in Corbin, Kentucky. Over the past year, 43 dedicated individuals completed 54,290 hours of service to children and families across 21 partner public schools in Bell, Floyd, Knott, Leslie, and Perry Counties. As a direct result of their efforts, more than
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Our 43rd annual Dyslexia Summer Tutoring Program concluded on July 12 after five weeks of intensive instruction in reading, math, and writing alongside special sessions in art, music, and literature from local artists, musicians, and writers for more than fifty students who were enrolled on campus and virtually. We are pleased to share that students
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We here at the Settlement School are extremely humbled and appreciative of the outpouring of generosity shown to us by the National Society Daughters of the American Revolution (NSDAR) this year at the 133rd Continental Congress! Hindman, one of five NSDAR-approved schools in the United States, was founded in 1902 by two Kentucky Daughters, May Stone
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Late in June we held our 3rd annual Ironwood Writers Studio, a week-long residency for high school students interested in creative writing. Students stayed on campus and worked with publishing writers Manuel Iris, Julia Watts, Lacy Snapp, Clint Waters, Jamey Temple, and George Ella Lyon. They also had sessions with local artists and educators Cyan
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Troublesome Rising: An Evening of Art & Activism will take place on September 7 at The Southgate House Revival in Newport. The event will celebrate the release of Troublesome Rising: A Thousand-Year Flood in Eastern Kentucky from Fireside Industries. The book is a powerful anthology with well-known and emerging Appalachian writers creating an authentic space
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Our first issue of Untelling, the new literary and arts magazine, is on its way to the printers! Untelling will come out twice a year, in June and December, and will feature writers, photographers, and artists from across Appalachia and beyond. This inaugural issue includes work from 28 poets, 6 prose writers, and 14 artists! This issue
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Each day in partner public schools across southeastern Kentucky, a team of approximately 40 ReadingCorps tutors work with students to teach fundamental reading skills. As the school year came to a close, we took a moment to ask each member to reflect on their year of service by sharing about a student who experienced progress
Kayla Thacker’s involvement with Hindman Settlement School’s dyslexia intervention program began in the early 2000’s when she accepted a role as a tutor with our intensive five-week summer program. Through the decades, her involvement has grown from a part-time tutor to serving as one of our program’s school-based reading intervention specialists in 2021, the curriculum
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AmeriCorps and Serve Kentucky, the federal and state agencies for national service and volunteerism, have awarded Hindman Settlement School two grants totaling $1,014,084 supporting new and existing initiatives. Funding from the agencies will be used to support the continued implementation and growth of ReadingCorps, a literacy intervention program targeted at K-3 students who face barriers to grade-level reading as
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Tutoring programs are funded, in part, by the AmeriCorps federal agency through Serve Kentucky, the state service commission
