August 22, 2024
[This article was written by Intern Erika Scharf. She attends Oberlin College.] BIRDS OF A FEATHER Danyale Vaughn and Lenora Wilson are both Student Ambassadors at Seeds of Literacy—Danyale at the East location and Lenora at the West. Though they don’t know each other, their stories are very similar. Both …
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January 10, 2023
**This tip originally appeared in the December 2022 issue of Tutor News from Dr. Carmine Stewart, VP Programming** Did you know that students are allowed to use the math formula sheet for one portion of the GED math test? This formula sheet provides a list of the formulas that students will …
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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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February 12, 2018
Everyone reads differently. It’s a common misconception that a person can either read, or they can’t. There is no switch from non-reader to reader. Does your student read slowly, but accurately? Perhaps you are a student who reads quickly, but doesn’t always understand what you read. Like most things in …
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December 01, 2017
In 2018, Seeds will post questions like those that appear on the GED, HiSET, and TASC tests on social media for #TriviaTuesdays. Bookmark this page for answers. 11/14/2018 MATH ANSWER: A Of the choices, only line A has a negative slope. 10/16/18 SCIENCE ANSWER: A According to …
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November 13, 2017
“People think you need to be a teacher or retired educator to tutor here, but you don’t,” Dolores Kirn says of the common misconception about volunteers at Seeds. Tutors just need to have patience, compassion, a desire to help, and at least a high school equivalent. “I’m terrible at English,” …
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