Tutoring - Horizon Academy

Tutoring at Horizon Academy

Tutoring at Horizon Academy

Does your child need extra support? Tutoring through Horizon Academy’s Learning Center offers students the extra help they need at our main campus, online, and at a location in southern Johnson County. Sessions are offered during the school day as well as after school hours. We have both school year and summer tutoring programs available that offer Orton-Gillingham-based tutoring, Multisensory Math tutoring, Written Expression tutoring, and Executive Functioning coaching.

Testing documentation with your student’s diagnoses is highly recommended, but not required. Prequalification for services is required.

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Orton-Gillingham Tutoring

Horizon Academy offers on-site and online, one-on-one tutoring sessions using the Orton-Gillingham Approach. Orton-Gillingham (O-G) is an instructional approach intended primarily for use with persons who have difficulty with reading, spelling, and writing due to challenges with dyslexia and other language-based learning disabilities. This multisensory approach is diagnostic, prescriptive, systematic, structured, and personalized to meet the needs of the learner.

Orton-Gillingham interventionists have been trained in the approach by a Fellow from the Orton-Gillingham Academy and continue to work under the Fellow’s guidance to ensure the quality of service provided.

The Writing Revolution

Horizon Academy also offers sentence-level, paragraph-level, and essay-level written expression tutoring using The Writing Revolution. Like the Orton-Gillingham Approach and the Multisensory Math Approach, The Writing Revolution employs explicit language, follows a sequential order, and consistently cycles through concepts. Our tutors have been trained in the Writing Revolution methodology to provide diagnostic, prescriptive, and systematic instruction.

Multisensory Math Tutoring

Horizon Academy also offers Multisensory Math tutoring. This approach applies Orton-Gillingham multisensory instructional strategies to mathematics. Multisensory Math tutoring provides hands-on work with manipulative objects and is recommended for students of all ages. It enhances both concept integration and memory. This approach is especially important for LD students.

Our interventionists have been trained in Multisensory Math instruction by Marilyn Zecher, M.A., CALT, who is the creator of the Multisensory Math program.

Executive Function Coaching

Does your child struggle with time management, organization, motivation, or study skills? Horizon Academy now offers individualized, once-a-week Executive Function (EF) Coaching with our expert school psychologist, Dr. Tiffany Arrington. This service is designed to help students develop essential tools for academic and personal success. Coaching sessions are tailored to each student’s needs based on initial assessments and interviews. 

Students will gain skills through:

  1. Targeted EF drills to strengthen focus and working memory
  2. Practical planning activities using calendars, clocks, and schedules
  3. Goal-setting and tracking with strategies for building motivation and follow-through
  4. Identifying obstacles and creating effective, individualized work-arounds

Click here for more information on EF Coaching.

Would You Like to Learn More About Our Tutoring Center?

If you are interested in tutoring for your child, the first step is to contact the Learning Center Coordinator for more information about interventionist availability and to discuss your student’s challenges and strengths. You will be asked to submit your child’s diagnostic or school reports.

You can submit the Inquiry Form or call our Learning Center Coordinator at (913) 789-9443.

Once a student is prequalified for services, the next step is the completion of a Tutoring Center application and submission of a $30 application fee. Both the application and the fee payment can be done through the link below. Once we have received your application, the Learning Center Coordinator will contact you to discuss days/times for tutoring sessions.

Tutoring General Information

  • 45-minute sessions can be scheduled 2 or 4 times a week.
  • Sessions are available Mondays/Wednesdays, Tuesdays/Thursdays, or Mondays – Thursdays.
  • The charge per 45-minute session is $85. Fees are paid in advance at the beginning of each month. Checks should be made payable to Horizon Academy.
  • Families are charged for cancelled sessions unless the interventionist is notified 24 hours in advance.

Please note: Executive Function Coaching is structured differently. For more information on EF Coaching, please click here.