Summer is for making things! It’s the season for completing projects around the house, painting a landscape, or snapping photos while you take a long walk through nature. Because of this, I considered myself very lucky to be the Art Assistant for It’s a WRAP!, School on Wheels’ month long summer enrichment program at Salvation Army Barton Center. […]
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 Kate Hussey, our Chief Operating Officer, who holds the distinction of working at School on Wheels longer than anyone besides our Founder & […]
Last Thursday, we celebrated one of our very favorite evenings of the year: the RUN(317) Broad Ripple 5K! We were thrilled to be the charity partner of the race for the third year in a row. It was such a fun evening, and we were excited to see so many familiar faces and meet some […]
One of our main goals at School on Wheels is to educate more people about homelessness as an issue in our country and give people tools to be part of the solution. This month, a lot of great new resources and reports have come out regarding homelessness, poverty, and education in the US, and we thought […]
June is a busy month at School on Wheels. Not only are we already planning for the next school year AND getting ready for our summer program that begins June 19, but we also have a ton of different things happening that will support and spread the word about the kids we serve in Indianapolis! […]
These days, it seems like every month there’s a fun theme or holiday to celebrate. May is no exception, and its theme is one of our very favorites – it’s Get Caught Reading month! The idea behind Get Caught Reading month is to remind people of all ages how much fun it is to read. […]
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 Kelly Coker, our Vice President of Programs, who shares a very special distinction here at School on Wheels – she’s the only person […]
Anton, age 10, has been in our program since the beginning of the 2016/2017 school year and is a true success story. He attends tutoring regularly and recently received notification that he had made honor roll for the third semester! Anton started third grade this year in a new school and was apprehensive about his […]
We want to offer a huge thank you to the over 350 people who attended our 2017 Education Celebration, presented by BMO Harris Bank and Defenders, and to all of our sponsors who made the night such a huge success! We enjoyed a fantastic and inspiring evening, and hope you did too! Below is just […]
Every night at tutoring, we begin the hour with a short writing prompt to focus our students’ minds on learning and get their creative juices flowing. Each Program Coordinator asks a different question every night that we have tutoring, so we end up with thousands of writing prompts from hundreds of different students per year! The majority of […]
