June 11, 2018
At Seeds, we often ask our tutors to imagine their way into the lives of our students. Michael Gingerich doesn’t have to. Gingerich started tutoring at Seeds’ West Side location in early 2016. He’d grown up in the Clark-Fulton neighborhood, so it was something of a homecoming for him. More …
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June 04, 2018
~Capital “G” Goals~ At Seeds of Literacy, our adult students come in with a pretty big, capital G Goal: to earn their high school equivalency. But when that doesn’t happen right away, some get frustrated. They fail to see all that they HAVE achieved because all they see is the …
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May 07, 2018
Take twice daily. Use until gone. These are common directions on medications, and at first glance, they appear simple. Unless you’re Susan. Susan didn’t know if twice daily meant morning and night, before lunch or before bed. Since she wasn’t sure and was too embarrassed to ask, Susan took two …
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May 04, 2018
After spending the last few weeks reading Eric Coble’s collection of short ten-minute plays, Ten Minutes From Cleveland, the members of the Seeds Book Club were lucky enough to get a visit from the playwright himself on Wednesday, May 2. Similar to his plays, Eric’s kindness, humility, and humor awed …
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April 30, 2018
Seeds is not like a regular classroom. Think back to the last school you were in. Small desks. Uncomfortable chairs. A chalkboard or dry erase board. And of course, don’t forget a single teacher at the front of the room. Maybe you liked the teacher — but probably didn’t — …
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April 16, 2018
Dr. Chantal Dothey has been volunteering as a math tutor with Seeds of Literacy for six years. When she was a physician at MetroHealth, she popped down the street to the West 25th Street location for evening classes. As luck would have it, Seeds East opened just as she retired …
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March 26, 2018
~ Drafting: The Second Step in the Writing Process ~ You’ve had the idea. You’ve gathered your thoughts. You’ve done some great prewriting. What’s the next step in the writing process? Once you have done some prewriting and compiled all your thoughts, the task is simply to write. That might …
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March 18, 2018
Coffee shops filled with coworkers. A church basement with neighbors. Stay-at-home moms gathered in a living room. Book Clubs form for reasons as varied as their meeting locations. The commonality? A love of the written word and a good story. But what if someone struggles with literacy? Would they even …
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March 15, 2018
By Chris Richards (Fun video included, keep reading) Few puns are as delicious as Pi Day. At Seeds of Literacy, March 14 (perhaps better written as 3/14) is a special day, and not just because it’s Albert Einstein’s birthday. Seeds of Literacy’s students are all adults. Many have been out …
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March 12, 2018
All three high school equivalency (HSE) tests cover Math, Science, Language Arts, and Social Studies. But for the GED®, and the computerized versions of the TASC® and HiSET®, there’s another subject that is hidden in plain sight: digital literacy. This hidden subject appears in the form of Technology Enhanced Questions …
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