At Pathways-Edgewood they deepened understanding of another culture and enhanced writing skills by becoming penpals with students from a rural setting in India. 

The academics at Pathways are supported by a comprehensive program of individual and group therapy for every student to help them overcome emotional and behavioral obstacles to the learning process.  Enhancing this therapeutic program is a constellation of arts, athletic and outdoor activities that constitute Pathways' alternative

Mural arts at Crossland-Re-Entry

therapies program. Our students need a variety of avenues to learn and to express themselves.  These pathways to knowledge, self-understanding and expression include visual arts, dance, poetry, story-telling, horseback riding, basketball and wilderness camping.  Workshops at Pathways-Springville, for example, used story-telling to help students discover positive aspects of themselves and to develop confidence in social interactions.  At Pathways-Anne

Rafting on the Potomac while camping at Rolling Ridge

Arundel, percussive folk dance opened new understandings of the multicultural American experience and boosted coordination and fitness.  Pathways-Crossland students created a mural that expressed their own uniqueness while they learned about design and color.  Pathways-Edgewood went on its annual camping trip to Rolling Ridge, a wilderness preserve near Harpers Ferry, and learned to overcome fears of the outdoors and to face the challenge of white water rafting.  Students at several Pathways schools attended the therapeutic riding program at Rock Creek Horse Stable, in which horse care and riding are used to teach responsibility, cooperation, patience and confidence.  Others participated in Hoop Ed, a program that uses basketball to teach life skills.