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In the past couple of months, Seeds of Literacy has been growing! We’ve added four new staff members and we wanted to take a moment of opportunity to introduce everyone to their smiling faces. Come meet them here: Neil Bloomberg is the new Vice President of Development at Seeds. He …

By Jennifer Vecchiarelli In November 2018, Kara Krawiec became the first ever ProLiteracy Hero. Kara is an adult literacy advocate  who is the East site coordinator at Seeds of Literacy in Cleveland, Ohio, an organization that provides personalized education to empower adults to succeed in their communities. There are over …

Seeds of Literacy is proud to celebrate the accomplishments of Reginald “Reggie” Latten of Cleveland, one of Seeds’ GED graduates, who was honored with the 2019 GED Graduate of the Year Award during the GED Testing Service Annual Conference in Chicago in July. Latten received a $1,000 scholarship for post-secondary …

Our smartphones are pretty amazing tools. We can use them to help manage our money, check our health, and keep us connected to news, videos, and the Internet anywhere we go. But could they be too much of a good thing? Maybe you’ve been “phubbed”–phone snubbed–by a friend or family …

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 …

Read One Giant Leap : Part 1 » The designers of the rocket used to go to the moon had to change their plans often.  The lead designer, Wernher Van Braun, originally wanted to build a rocket called the “Nova” with eight giant engines (the eventual rocket we used, the …

“Research is what I’m doing when I don’t know what I’m doing.” Wernher Von Braun   In October of 1957, a small metal ball named Sputnik changed the world.  With its launch, the gauntlet was thrown down and the Space Race had begun.  For the next decade, the US and …

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 …