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The SEED Foundation
What Is The Seed Foundation?
The SEED Foundation teams up with communities in the urban areas in order to deliver educational opportunities to underserved students so that they will be successful in their lives. It has boarding schools, which prepare students for college. The underserved children are provided a nurturing environment 24/7, which instructs students on life skills in a secure and safe environment. The curriculum includes enrichment, social, physical health, mental health, residential, and academic programs that strengthens the surrounding communities and support structures of the students.
There are currently two SEED schools in the United States of America with more schools set to be opened in the future. The SEED School of Washington, D.C. is a public boarding school, which aims to provide an intensive and outstanding educational program, which aims to provide children with the necessary tools to be successful not only academically but socially as well. At least 320 students from grade 6 to 12 are being served by SEED. These students live inside the campus from Sunday to Friday where they learn life, extracurricular and academic skills.
The SEED School of Maryland, on the other hand, offers living and extraordinary learning experience. It has at least 308 students from grades 6 – 9 and plans on serving 400 kids from grades 6 to 12. The school opened its doors to underserved students in 2008. Just like in the SEED School of Washington, D.C., students in Maryland live inside the campus from Sunday to Friday.
The SEED School Program
The SEED schools provide a college preparatory, standards based model to children where professional life skills as well as organizational and academic skills and enables every student to succeed and attend college. The schools are committed to keep each student secure and safe so that he/she can use his/her passions to fulfill life and academic experiences. The staff and students pursue excellence and demonstrate consistently the values of integrity, compassion, self-discipline, respect, and responsibility, which are also the core values of SEED.
The staff is also committed to guide each student so that he/she can succeed with the correct resources like authentic experiences, opportunities for student leadership, enrichment activities after each school day, and academic curriculum, which is relevant. Every child is unique and as such he/she deserves personal attention to address his/her needs. The school is committed to provide coordinated communication between practitioners, parents, and students, student support services, and student orientation programs. Data analysis and varied and frequent assessments are used to demonstrate to each student his/her progress and to keep teachers accountable and focused.
SEED schools are committed to hire the best adults and to support, train, and coach them in order for them to better support the success and achievement of all students. To better serve the underserved students, the SEED schools work with their guardians and parents in order to ensure their success. Regular and clear communication together with on-campus events, educational workshops, and opportunities to better contribute to the governance of the school are provided by the school for the parents and guardians. SEED schools also work with the community because these schools believe that it is important to work with the local community to support the academic experience of each SEED youth.
http://www.seedfoundation.com/
1776 Massachusetts Avenue, N.W.Suite 600
Washington, D.C. 20036
T: (202) 785-4123
F: (202) 785-4124
info@seedfoundation.com
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Originally posted 2012-02-23 11:36:04.
I’m always azamed when the quality review people come in weeks ahead of their scheduled time to tell us what they want to see when they do the actual review. Isn’t that basically inviting the opportunity for a school to scramble around and create a situation that will look favorable to these people? I mean look if they really want to see what a school is like, they should just show up one day.Anyways, yeah education is severely messed up for many reasons. There are teachers who could be doing better (I don’t believe in bad teachers, anyone doing this job deserves a pat on the back). To be honest, I don’t think any teacher comes to work thinking that they are going to do a minimalist job, or rather, would not think that way if the environment were a bit different. The fact of the matter is that our education system is completely outdated for the population we teach. We still cling to this idea that every kid needs to go to college. Well, if everyone can go to college, then college suddenly doesn’t seem all that important anymore, now does it? I remember a line from the movie The Incredibles where the boy wants to use his powers but can’t, and the mom says everyone is special, and he responds, if everyone is special, no one is. I kind of take this view with education. Not everyone is going to go to college AND succeed. Not everyone is wired this way. Hell, I went to college and even having a good education background, I struggled my first couple of years.This president and all his ilk want to send more people to college but the truth is we are doing the kids a disservice. And until we realize that the entire education system needs to be completely overhauled, that responsibility, rigor and a reason for education needs to be accurately conveyed to our populations, then the same things will continue to happen. Students will drop out, or stumble around till they can take a credit recovery class, do the minimal work possible, then get pushed into society with a piece of paper that is not fit to be used in a bathroom stall and think they are qualified.