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By Billy Hallal, Digital Literacy Coordinator I don’t remember exactly when I first met Rose Copley. That’s how much of a fixture she was in the Seeds West classroom when, a year and a half ago, I started working there. At some point I just realized that she was a …

Summer reading season is in full swing, and it’s impossible to visit a bookstore or open an entertainment periodical without being inundated with recommendations on sizzling seasonal reads. Kids do it, adults do it. At no other time of year is reading so universally championed. How did summer become our …

Seeds of Literacy is in the news again. This time, it’s a piece from Columbus reporter Lisa Rantala. The story focuses on Seeds student Erica McCrary, a student who graduated high school without the ability to read or do basic math. The story is part of Rantala’s “Scoring Our Schools”, …

Students come to Seeds most often for their High School Equivalency, but sometimes, they find a new passion along the way. For many of them, it’s creative writing. That’s certainly the case for the six Seeds students whose work was just published in Women’s Perspectives, a national journal of creative …

It’s easy to be pessimistic about literacy in America these days. We’re reading less than we used to, and even a cursory visit to this site will tell you that adult literacy statistics in the city of Cleveland are grim. But there are reasons to be optimistic. As Jordan Weissmann …

It’s common at Seeds for new students to ask us, “When do we have summer break?” The answer is: we don’t! Outside of a day or two off for Independence Day, Seeds keeps its classes going all summer long. We feel we have a compelling reason not to have a …

Wednesday evening, in the auditorium of The Centers for Families and Children on Euclid Avenue, Seeds celebrated the successes of the Class of 2019. At 51 graduates, this is the second-largest graduating class since the GED went computer-only in 2014. Among the graduates were longtime Seeds students like Rose Copley, …

Sure, Clevelanders love the Rock Hall, the West Side Market, and the Guardians of Transportation. But in terms of city landmarks, you can’t beat Terminal Tower. It’s our most distinct and easily recognizable skyscraper, featured regularly in TV shows and movies set in The Land. That’s why we see it …

At Seeds, our budget comes from donations. So when it comes to raising money-sometimes we have to get crafty. And what better way to do that … than with craft beers? That’s what we’re doing this Tuesday at the Sip for Seeds and Book Swap at Bookhouse Brewing! Bookhouse will …

Cleveland, OH (June 17, 2019) – Bonnie Entler, Executive Director of Seeds of Literacy, was named to Northeast Ohio’s 2019 Notable Women in Education list by Crain’s Cleveland Business. The list features female leaders in the education sector, including teachers, coaches, and administrators, spanning K through 12 to higher education. …