The risks and rewards associated with mentoring young people for entrepreneurship are attracting growing attention among policymakers, development organizations and scholars. Companies, organizations and communities have found themselves needing to step up to help solve these problems and finding ways to support student success. “Entrepreneurship and entrepreneurial thinking are essential […]
Research shows that students benefit when teachers share their race or gender. Yet most teachers are white women. The research suggests that this is one of the contributing factors to the pervasive gender and race gaps in student achievement: Overall, girls outperform boys, and white students outperform those who are […]
There are many opportunities in the City of Rochester to celebrate and learn during Black History Month. Over the years Horizons at Warner has visited many of the famous sites in our city. We learned together the history of the suffragists, visited Susan B. Anthony’s Home, sat in the park […]
What does Horizons at Warner need? How can you help? There are numerous opportunities throughout the year to volunteer with or sponsor us! Individual Volunteering During the 30-day program, volunteers are always needed in our workshops in which children are educated in self-chosen research topics and skills like music, art, […]
How long have you been teaching? “I’m going on 23 years, I had five in the city, and just finished my 18th in Penfield. It goes by really fast!” What’s your favorite part about working in the program? “What I really like, especially about this program, is the theme and […]
Why Read? Definitionally, literacy is the ability to “read, write, spell, listen, and speak.” Carol Anne St. George, EdD, an associate professor and literacy expert at the University of Rochester’s Warner School of Education, wants kids to fall in love with reading. “It helps grow their vocabulary and their understanding […]
“The State Education Department released the spring 2019 test results for grades 3-8 in English and math today, and the Rochester City School District remains the lowest performing of the state’s Big Five districts. Only 13.2 percent of the Rochester district’s students were grade-level proficient in English. That was an […]
Last week we were honored to host University of Rochester president, Sarah Mangelsdorf, for her visit to see the program in action! Mangelsdorf is an internationally known professor of psychology, especially for her research on the social and emotional development of infants and young children, things we definitely care about […]
Amy is the lead teacher of our 6th grade class for the 2019 program. So how long have you been teaching? I’m going into my eighth year of teaching. When I first started teaching I was an intervention teacher, so I had first grade through sixth grade. What is an […]
Dean Anand Marri of the Warner School came to visit the Teacher Assistants in Training at Horizons today! The TAITs are 9th graders who have gone through the K-8 program already. Members of the TAIT program are present across the six weeks of program, observing and assisting in assigned classrooms […]
