{"id":73635,"date":"2018-04-16T17:07:46","date_gmt":"2018-04-16T21:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=73635"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:19:06","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T21:19:06","slug":"trio-to-hike-appalachian-trail-for-hillside-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=73635","title":{"rendered":"Trio to Hike Appalachian Trail for Hillside School"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/hillsideschool.org\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-73636\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/THS_logo-XLG-1024x406.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"474\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/THS_logo-XLG-1024x406.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/THS_logo-XLG-300x119.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/THS_logo-XLG-768x304.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On <span data-term=\"goog_503584291\">April 20<\/span>, the students and faculty of The Hillside School located in Macungie, PA, will send teacher Sean Redmond and his friends, Devin Everett and Andrew Harman, off with gusto and good wishes to hike the Appalachian Trail from Georgia to Maine, raising awareness for students with learning disabilities and scholarship funds so all can benefit from a Hillside education.\u00a0 Students and staff have prepared an original send-off performance to celebrate their journey!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-73637\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0182.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0182.jpg 250w, https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/IMG_0182-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/>Students at The Hillside School have been exploring their dreams through journaling, collaborative art projects, and research of historical dreamers.\u00a0 Sean Redmond, Hillside\u2019s Art teacher, has always dreamed of thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail.\u00a0 What better way to show students their dreams can be realized than by venturing on his own dream journey!\u00a0 \u201cHiking the Appalachian Trail is my dream and I am raising money so that more students who struggle with learning disabilities can learn how to read and write without the fear and anxiety of being wrong.\u201d \u2013Sean Redmond<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe perseverance and grit our students practice every day to learn how to read, write, and solve math problems are the exact skills that they will use to realize their own dreams. All of us support Mr. Redmond\u2019s dream journey and look forward to hearing about their adventures,\u201d expresses Donna Henry, Head of School.<\/p>\n<p>The Hillside School is an independent K-8 school for students who struggle to learn in traditional school settings.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Hillside serves students with language-based learning disabilities, such as dyslexia (reading), dysgraphia (writing) and dyscalculia (math), as well as speech and language deficits, various processing disorders, and attention challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Sean, Devin and Andrew will remain in constant contact with members of The Hillside School community throughout their 5-month journey.\u00a0 Supporters who wish to donate to The Hillside School Scholarship Fund in honor of the trio can go to <a href=\"http:\/\/hillsideschool.org\/hiking-for-hillside\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?hl=en&amp;q=http:\/\/hillsideschool.org\/hiking-for-hillside\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1523997650702000&amp;usg=AFQjCNFvVKklKtwVh67TuRlITTbSijXr2g\">http:\/\/hillsideschool.org\/hiking-for-hillside\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow the Hiking for Hillside team on social media using<br \/>\n#hikingforhillside.<\/p>\n<p>Information Provided By:<br \/>\nThe Hillside School<br \/>\nErin Coffey, Development Associate<br \/>\nLindsey Seltzer, Advancement Services Manager<br \/>\n2697 Brookside Road<br \/>\nMacungie, PA 18062<br \/>\nwww.hillsideschool.org<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/04\/Hike-For-Hillside.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=73635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/73638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=73635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=73635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=73635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}