Giving Tuesday 2015

Giving Tuesday 2015

Join the Giving Tuesday Movement and Give Back! School on Wheels will be participating in this year’s GivingTuesday! We have a day for giving thanks. We have two for getting …

HomeWalk 2015

On November 21, 2015, team School on Wheels participated in the United Way HomeWalk, a walk dedicated to eradicating homelessness in Los Angeles. This was our team’s second year participating …

Ask A Tutor Tuesday – 11/17/2015

Ask A Tutor Tuesday – 11/17/2015

Question: Do you have any suggestions for keeping my student engaged during the holidays? His mother has already approached me about taking a few weeks off in December, and I’m …

Tutoring Students with Special Needs

It can be a challenge to work with students with ADHD or other special needs, but it can also be incredibly rewarding. In this workshop, special needs advocate Danielle Wiltchik …

Ask A Tutor Tuesday – 11/10/2015

Ask A Tutor Tuesday – 11/10/2015

Question: Do you have any suggestions for engaging my student’s mom? She always polite and says thanks but doesn’t ask about what we’re doing at all. I’d like to suggest …

Ask A Tutor Tuesday – 11/3/2015

Ask A Tutor Tuesday – 11/3/2015

This week, Natalie Platon discusses the challenge of teaching multiplication to a group of students at the Skid Row Learning Center. Ever since first becoming a tutor at the Skid …

Trick-or-Treating on Skid Row

On Friday, October 30, the boys and girls of the Skid Row Learning Center dressed as princesses and super heroes alongside many other characters to trick-or-treat around the center. School …

November 2015 Newsletter

“At times our own light goes out and is rekindled by a spark from another person. Each of us has cause to think with deep gratitude of those who have …