Pathways Residence Schooling Corp. is a nonprofit that provides one-on-one steerage and assist to assist college students and their households keep on monitor with their tutorial targets. The Pathways workforce is predicated at The Haven, a co-learning middle that provides a spread of packages that encourage lifelong learners. We created this information to assist households be taught extra in regards to the choices at The Haven and join with the facilitators at Pathways Residence Schooling for steerage on facilitated programs of examine in 6–12 schooling and each tutorial and social assist for college students in grades 1–12 at The Haven.
About Pathways Residence Schooling
Typically households are caught in a dilemma the place they aren’t certain whether or not they need to pull their youngster out of their present college to alter colleges or swap to homeschooling. The workforce at Pathways Residence Schooling has the abilities and expertise to assist households navigate that state of affairs. As you’ll be able to be taught from this profile, Maricela Luna, the Government Director at Pathways Residence Schooling, has expertise as a instructor and as a highschool counselor. Marilyn Danae, who manages neighborhood outreach, is constructing her abilities in nonprofit administration. Leila Lockett, an lively board member and retired educator, amongst different volunteers, helps the general mission at The Haven.
So, what’s Pathways Residence Schooling? It’s not a personal college, a microschool, a co-op, or tutoring—and but it’s type of all the above. The core providing at Pathways Residence Schooling is facilitated programs of examine. College students are capable of make progress on their studying, not in a conventional college setting, however at a co-learning middle.
Establishing a facilitated course of examine includes a number of steps. The method begins with a session to speak in regards to the household’s choices and arrange a homeschooling plan. The following step is to establish what curriculum the coed will use—both equipped by the household or borrowed from The Haven’s library of secular and faith-based supplies. Working with the coed and the household, the facilitator will set targets for the coed’s progress via the curriculum. By monitoring progress, the workforce could have the mandatory knowledge to organize transcripts displaying accomplished programs. The facilitators also can assist with entry to twin credit score programs and postsecondary acceptance.
Applications at The Haven
The Haven is a bodily area for the packages of Pathways Residence Schooling. The co-learning middle is situated on the Northwest Facet of San Antonio, close to the UTSA Principal Campus, at 5039 Beckwith Blvd. #109, San Antonio, TX 78249 (map). We went on a tour of The Haven guided by Chelsea Polanco.
As you’ll be able to see from the tour, the co-learning area has areas put aside for various studying actions.
STEM actions, together with robotics(coming quickly) and project-based studying
Recreation room with video games together with ping pong, foosball, and board video games
Culinary arts kitchen for studying intro to cooking abilities and wholesome residing
Podcasting studio with microphones, headphones, and a inexperienced display screen
Studying, literacy, and testing zone
Train cart
Animal care middle with a pet rabbit
Maker House with woodworking, chip carving, clay molding, and vinyl transfers on T-shirts
Music room with devices, together with guitar, violin, keyboard, and xylophone
Artwork studio with portray, drawing, and sculpture
Vogue studio with stitching machines, jewellery making, cross stitching, and crochet
Computer systems for on-line studying
Elementary Applications
College students in grades 1–5 meet at The Haven on Mondays and Wednesdays from 8:15 AM to 11:15 AM. Right here is an instance of a typical morning’s actions:
Begin the day with studying for quarter-hour in the primary space
Subsequent, college students have 45 minutes of particular person examine time utilizing a pre-selected curriculum offered by the mum or dad or supplemented by Pathways
Discover a unit matter with displays, visible aids, hands-on actions, and group collaborations
Break into an space of exploration to assist the unit matter mentioned similar to STEM, music or artwork.
Undertaking-based studying: work individually or as a gaggle on Fridays, neighborhood days.
Spend 20 minutes within the recreation room.
Greet and examine in with The Haven pet, Honey.
Recap and roundup within the widespread space for a snack and watch academic tv packages like Nationwide Geographic.
Center and Excessive College Applications
College students in grades 6–12 meet at The Haven on Mondays and Wednesdays from 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM. Right here is an instance of a typical day’s actions:
The day begins with heat up actions, together with watching present occasions on TV like CNN Pupil Information or a each day math refresher.
College students spend an hour on coursework. The facilitators assist them set targets for the week, together with time spent at The Haven, at residence, and on the weekend, and monitor their progress.
The second hour is spent exploring the rooms of The Haven and taking part in actions of the scholars’ selection similar to podcasting, music, and style.
The third hour consists of extra tutorial time and alternatives for project-based studying and group collaborations.
College students can request entry to the Counselor’s Nook, the place they’ve one-on-one time with an authorized counselor to ask questions on social and emotional studying with mum or dad permission.
The facilitated studying program is supervised by the workforce at Pathways Residence Schooling but in addition permits ample time for college students to pursue their very own pursuits and to socialize with one another. The facilitators can monitor the scholars’ progress in direction of studying targets and assist mother and father alter their plans.
Afterschool and On-line Faculties
The Haven additionally welcomes “afterschoolers”—households whose college students attend conventional college settings in the course of the day and do enrichment actions outdoors of college hours. After-school actions at The Haven are for college students in grades 8–12 and happen on Monday via Friday from 4:15 PM to six:15 PM.
College students who’re enrolled in a full-time on-line college, together with personal on-line colleges and hybrid colleges, can come to The Haven for his or her studying time. Whereas at The Haven, college students could have tutoring assist and entry to the podcast and recreation rooms. Life abilities can even be embedded all through the weeks.
Extra Alternatives at The Haven
RISERS
RISERS is a program to match secondary-level college students with internships, externships, and real-world studying experiences via neighborhood partnerships in advertising and enterprise. This program will launch in summer season of 2024.
INSPIRE
INSPIRE is a credit score restoration program that gives at-risk college students with extra one-on-one assist and steerage. The purpose is for these college students to set manageable targets and earn their highschool diplomas. House is restricted.
HEROES
HEROES is a program that gives alternatives for college students which have graduated with Pathways Residence Schooling, highschool seniors, and undergraduate college students to turn into leaders throughout the home-educated scholar neighborhood. They are going to earn volunteer hours whereas supporting an underserved scholar inhabitants and taking part in enjoyable studying actions. College students can even have alternatives to work carefully with SOS – College students of Service. College students who’re age 17 and up can get entangled by filling out the curiosity type.
Get in Contact with Pathways Residence Schooling
If what you’ve discovered to this point about Pathways Residence Schooling and their packages at The Haven has piqued your curiosity, we encourage you to achieve out to them about organising a session. In the course of the session, households can tour The Haven and be taught in regards to the packages provided in several areas of the co-learning middle.
The principle cellphone quantity at Pathways Residence Schooling is 210-430-7179, and you may e mail them at data@phesa.org. You can even attain them via the contact type on their web site. We propose that you simply comply with them on social media on Fb, Instagram, X (Twitter), and TikTok.
Constitution Mothers Chats
Watch Maricela Luna, Government Director of Pathways Residence Schooling, and Marilyn Danae, President of Pathways Residence Schooling, communicate with Inga Cotton on Constitution Mothers Chats on December 11, 2023 at 4:00 PM Central reside on Fb and YouTube.
Maricela Luna is the Government Director of Pathways Residence Schooling. She was born and raised within the Rio Grande Valley. Began her instructing profession with IDEA Public Faculties and transitioned to McAllen ISD earlier than transferring to San Antonio, Texas. She began working as knowledgeable highschool counselor with Edgewood ISD the place she discovered a private drive and dedication in direction of post-secondary success with a no excuses, goal-driven mindset for each scholar no matter socioeconomic standing or background. This similar ardour and assist is now utilized in direction of the underserved homeschool neighborhood she now serves.
Marilyn Danae is the President of Pathways Residence Schooling, having joined the workforce in 2022. An aspiring Masters of Public Administration in Nonprofit Administration scholar, and sociology main, with an ardor for figuring out and offering options for immediately’s distinctive points dealing with schooling and social-emotional studying. She goals to offer mentorship and partnership with each household she works with. Her hope is for fairness in schooling and alternatives every scholar receives, with the help of the neighborhood and native leaders. Her imaginative and prescient is to construct a protected area for college students that may nurture the aspirations of every scholar whereas nonetheless bringing them collectively to construct a way of belonging and goal.
