Skool Aid

Skool Aid was founded in May 2011 by Ian C. Smith, a Northern Kentucky native with over 15 years of experience working with children. Skool Aid got its start providing elementary summer programming, and quickly expanded its offering and team of instructors to provide after-school, summer, and supplemental school year incentive programs. Today, Skool Aid provides programming for many schools and foundations around the tri-state area.

Ian Smith - Music and Movement

Our mission is to enrich the lives of children through quality after school, during school and summer programs. Serving both public and private schools, and other children’s organizations, Skool Aid brings together passionate, talented Teaching Artists with a variety of backgrounds to provide a wide range of enrichment programming in music, fitness, creative arts, drama, focused tutoring and more. Skool Aid’s programming is designed to help children develop new interests, uncover and nurture hidden talents, encourage good behavior, but most importantly, have a ton of fun.

Jacob Counts with Wheelchair Basketball @ NKU

Teaching Artists

Skool Aid's diverse team of passionate Teaching Artists provide enrichment programming in music, fitness, creative arts, drama, focused tutoring and more...

Ian Smith - President/CEO

Jacob Counts - Dir. of Programming

“I wanted you to know that I overheard two of the boys that helped you out today talking at their lockers after lunch. The one boy told the other this was ‘the best day ever,’ and the other boy replied it was ‘so awesome!’ You make such a difference and all of the 6th grade teachers at lunch were talking about how great the assembly was!”

— Johnica Baker - Special Education Team Leader, Gray Middle School

Want to be A Teaching Artist?

Ms. Meredith

Ms. Jessica

Ms. Kristen

Ms. Liz

Mr. Stan

Ms. Maya

Ms. Emily

Mr. Joshua

Ms. Alexa

Ms. Tiffany

Ms. Natalie

Mr. Doug

Mr. Ian

Ms. Wendy

Ms. Bree

Ms. Mary Beth

Ms. Morgan

Ms. Hanna

Mr. Ryan

Ms. Carrie

Ms. Leigh

Ms. Charity

“WOW!!!! Truly the best assembly I have EVER attended (even from my school days)!!!!”

— Megan Burkey - Instructor Assistant, The Academy of World Languages

Programs

Parents, students and schools all have many different interests. Our Teaching Artists do too, as they come from many different backgrounds with the same willingness to inpsire.

Our goal is to nurture learning and creativity, and we do so by offering many classes in the following programs: