Facilitator Training

• Are you interested in starting a Horse Powered Reading Program in your area?  

• Would you like to learn more about experiential learning and incorporating it into your classroom activities?  

• Would you like access to our brand new Horse Powered Reading curriculum manual?

This course will introduce the basic principles of experiential reading strategies for the classroom, and ideas for incorporating Horse Powered Reading into your existing EAGALA model EAL/EAP program, school programming, or other equine programming.

Facilitator Course Includes

• Two assignment tracks, one for EAL practitioners and one for classroom teachers

• Participants in both tracks will learn activities for experiential reading instruction to help struggling readers

• EAGALA and PATH International professionals will earn 8 CEU  toward EAGALA renewal

• Minnesota teachers can earn 8 hours toward re-licensure

• This class is a great way to connect and share ideas with teachers and facilitators around the world who are using Horse Powered Reading to help their clients

• Access to HPR materials, Former Participant presentations/lessons, and Dr Pickel's Session ideas

• You will Receive A "Horse Powered Reading Certificate of Completion"

• Opportunity to buy the new Horse Powered Reading Curriculum: for Arena and Classroom

• Workshop Registration Details for July 2021 Online HPR Classes

Join us for the July Facilitator Training!

HPR51: Thursdays, July 1-22, 6pm-8pm (US central time)

• Each class meets online and is limited to 8 students

• Your $350 USD registration fee does not include the price of the published Horse Powered Reading Curriculum, or the Horse Book Series set with lesson bundle, but will include a variety of other HPR resources.

  Participation in this class allows participants to purchase:

  Horse Powered Reading Curriculum: for Arena and Classrooms

  *Please see details below.

Prepare for Back to School & Fall After School Programing! Limited space!

Thursdays, July 1-July 22nd 6-8:00 central US time zone

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To become part of our Horse Powered Reading family…

Power Up Your Program!

HORSE POWERED READING CURRICULUM: A NEW AND UNIQUE WAY TO EMPOWER ALL STUDENTS

Welcome to the long awaited HPR curriculum! It builds around the critical reading skills of Decoding, Fluency, Vocabulary, and Comprehension. This comprehensive resource includes activities for use with horses in an arena, pasture, or barn as well as parallel activities to reinforce the same reading skills in a classroom, homeschool, or family setting. Classroom activities included with each skill area can help build relationships with teachers and parents as you share what happened in the arena and then offer the follow up activities to build on it. A solid partnership between facilitator, school, and home makes Horse Powered Reading even more powerful.

The HPR curriculum was originally created for a four-week special education summer school program running four half-days per week in WY. However, by using just one activity for a 30-50 minute session, facilitators successfully use this curriculum for individual weekly sessions spread over several days or months. Programs also use one or more activities for group field trips, or summer/ holiday programs and camps. Because each activity has suggested learning goals, it is easy to target the specific needs of student or groups. By simply adjusting words used, the same activity can be effective for a wide range of ages. 

Along with two full lesson plans per day, additional extensions and ideas, help you creatively expand or adapt most activities. This curriculum is not the be-all end-all bible of HPR activities, but rather seeds to help grow your confidence to creatively meet the needs of the unique students you will serve. As in all equine facilitated learning and therapies, the facilitator is there to create and hold space for the client to explore and discover answers WITH THE HORSE(S). As such, these HPR activities are simply “a plan from which you WILL diverge”. Always follow your students’ lead and trust the process. After all, Horse Powered Reading is a powerful synergy between reading skills, motivation, self-efficacy, and persistence. Humans may set up and prepare materials to facilitate learning the reading skills, but horses do the most important work of building student motivation, self-efficacy, and persistence!

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The curriculum can ONLY be purchased by those who are in or have completed the online “Intro to Experiential and Horse Powered Reading Instruction” Workshop.

THE HORSE BOOK SERIES is now available in the United States!

The Horse Book Series is an educational experience engaging children’s learning with a most loved topic…HORSES!

Written by our own Horse Powered Reading family’s, Ilhaam alMaskery, this series is a collection of six original educational books which are beautifully illustrated and creatively narrated to enrich the learning experience and encourage recreational reading.

Series Summary:

Blaze the colt, and his owner Omar, explore the wonderful world of horses. From basic anatomy to horse care, riding styles to leadership and  life skills. This series enables children to explore new facts and ideas about horses and highlights the value and positive impact of human-horse relationship.

It is an ideal educational resource for schools, homes and everywhere in between!

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Exclusive Bundle Offer for HPR Facilitators

If you have taken the HPR facilitator course, and are interested in purchasing “The Horse Book Series” set with complimentary lesson plans for each book in the series, please email Dr. Pickel.