Promoting Literacy at The SEED School

Summary

The SEED School of Washington, D.C. seeks to foster literacy growth by providig students with leveled books that they can and want to read as well as individualized literacy instruction and support. progress report read updates from the field

More Information About this Project

Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Students, faculty and parents will benefit from students' improved literacy skills and the confidence they gain from growth. The SEED School needs leveled fiction and non-fiction texts that students can read for independent reading and that support curricular needs in the classroom. SEED also needs to provide training to teachers to ensure consistent literacy instruction throughout all subjects.

Activities

Develop a library collection of leveled fiction and non-fiction texts that reflect students' literacy skills upon entering SEED as well as their anticipated growth.

Funding Information

This project has been retired and is no longer accepting donations.

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a Microsoft Word file (projdoc.doc).

Resources

Project's External Homepage (http://www.seedfoundation.com/)

Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Students will attain the grade-level literacy skills they need to not only succeed in their middle school courses, but also to meet the demands of SEED's college preparatory high school, and ultimately, succeed in and graduate from college.

Project Message

I used to be bad at reading and made low grades. Since I started at SEED, I have moved up a lot of reading levels and now I am doing well in all of my classes.
- SEED male 8th grader, Class of 2014

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Robin Baker,
Development Manager
4300 C Street SE
Washington, DC 20019
United States
202-248-3012
Email:

Project Sponsor

Ashoka Innovators for the Public (nominal)

Organisation

The SEED School of Washington, D.C.
4300 C Street, SE
Washington, DC 20019
United States
202-248-7773
http://www.seedfoundation.com/

Learn more about The SEED School of Washington, D.C. and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Education.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 16, 2010.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on July 23, 2004.

Latest Update from the Field

A Postcard from "Promoting Literacy at The SEED School"

By John Hecklinger - Visitor, January 21, 2010 01:45 PM

Yesterday, Britt Lake and I visited the SEED school here in Washington DC. The campus is amazing and their success is inspiring. Robin Baker and Margaret Ward hosted us and showed us around. We talked about ways that Robin and Margaret can use the GlobalGiving platform more effectively, and Britt and I got a tour of the library that GlobalGiving donors are helping to equip.

The school has an incredibly innovative residential model - kids from some of the rougher areas of DC, under-served by conventional public schools, reside at the SEED school during the week - returning to their families on the weekends. Starting in 6th grade, students are prepped for college and success rates are very high - 97% of students are accepted to college. As a public charter school, SEED can't choose its students, so there is a lottery to pick among the many applicants (see video). Being picked for the SEED school really is like winning a lottery - as a student now has a 97% chance of getting into college.

When asked what he would tell his friends about this project, John said: "Incredible: You need to see this!"

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The SEED School of Washington DC

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