by kayla | Mar 28, 2018 | Tutor Tips
Have you checked out our tutor tool kit videos yet? The tutor tool kits are an amazing resource filled with a wide-variety of activities that support grades K-12 in math, science, language, and visual arts. However, we know it can be a challenge to pick an appropriate...
by kayla | Mar 21, 2018 | Spotlights
You see adorable pictures of our kiddos working on homework. You hear amazing stories from our tutors about the “aha!” moments they experience with their students during tutoring. What you don’t see or hear as often is the work we do with the parents...
by kayla | Mar 16, 2018 | Tutor Tips
Last week, School on Wheels was fortunate to have two amazing speakers to present on the topic of Behavior Management. Holli Frazell, the Director of Organizational Leadership & Development at Bierman ABA Autism Centers, and Stacy Pigg, the Culture and Climate...
by kayla | Mar 8, 2018 | Events
Every February, the School on Wheels community unites to #SharetheLoveIndy to share stories of our amazing kids and to raise vital funding to provide 1:1 tutoring for students experiencing homelessness. We ate, drank, shopped, and even worked out in the name of...
by kayla | Mar 2, 2018 | Spotlights
Every few months, we’ll be introducing you to a new School on Wheels staff member so you can learn more about the people who make our programs run successfully! This month, we’re highlighting Tocarra Mallard, one of our Program Coordinators. What is your role at...
by kayla | Feb 19, 2018 | Spotlights
Every person involved in making our mission possible – from volunteers, to partners, to staff members — has a reason why they are involved, and February is the time of year when we ask people to share those reasons! During #SharetheLoveIndy, our annual awareness...
by Sally | Feb 14, 2018 | Special Posts
“How do you know you are making a difference?” We hear this a lot at School on Wheels. For 16 years, we have been providing one on one tutoring to homeless students. We have been working with parents to help them navigate the school system so they are engaged in the...
by Kate | Feb 8, 2018 | Spotlights
We always say that tutoring changes two lives: a child’s life and your life. Never has this been more evident to me than with my daughter. School on Wheels has been a part of Julia’s life since I started working here eight years ago when she was ten years old. At age...
by kayla | Feb 1, 2018 | Events
The best month of the year is finally here! We’ve been waiting since March 1, 2017 to #SharetheLoveIndy again, and starting today, we have 28 days of fun and fundraising to celebrate. You can shop, socialize, and even work out all to help provide tutoring for...
by Samantha | Jan 29, 2018 | Spotlights
Volunteering as a family is a great way to spend positive time together while making a big impact in the community. Sekar and Vishnu Iyer are just one of our adult/child teams who dedicate one hour of each week to working with our kiddos at Coburn Place. Sekar and...