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Equity & Achievement Challenge
DID YOU KNOW? SEI’s strategy teams connect more than 120 preschools and home visiting programs, 80 K-12 schools, 75 after-school and extracurricular programs, and several area colleges. Together, this alliance supports over 68,000 students on the journey from cradle...
Rethinking Key Steps To Reading Success in 2020
Written by: Danielle Curry-Bentley, Early Childhood Network Facilitator This year, Akron Public Schools faced the challenges of a 100% virtual first semester. Making the family engagement program, Key Steps to Reading Success, accessible calls for some...
A new plan to fund Ohio’s public schools is long overdue
Written by: Matthew Deevers, PhD – Executive Director Imagine, if you can, what life was like in the first days of September 1996. The world had never heard of Harry Potter. Jack and Rose had yet to board the Titanic. Tupac and Biggie were still...
Casting my vote and preserving the future
Written by: Matthew Deevers, PhD – Executive Director Today I will cast my vote for many local, state, and national candidates and issues. I love voting. I feel a great sense of pride after I vote. Voting reminds me that I live in a country where, despite our...
Nothing happened, and nobody really cared
Written by: Matthew Deevers, PhD – Executive Director Ohio released the 2020 school report cards last month. Due to spring closures and the suspension of state testing caused by the pandemic, however, the report cards were nearly blank. The system of public...
CLASS Act Scholars Kick-off the 2020 – 2021 Program!
Written by: Danielle Curry-Bentley, Early Childhood Network Facilitator CLASS Act Scholars kicked off a fantastic weekend for Cohort 4 this year. Amid these uncertain times, we provided an excellent experience to this small, but mighty preschool teacher group. Cohort...
SEI holds the First Quarterly Out of School Time Partner (OSTP) Network Meeting
Written by: Piya Chatterjee, PhD Summit Education Initiative (SEI) successfully held the First Quarterly Virtual Out Of School Time Program Network Meeting on September 8th, 2020. SEI works with more than 60 active OSTP partners that provide out of school time...
SEI launches College Restart in Cuyahoga Falls!
Visit collegerestart.org! SEI has launched College Restart, a grassroots outreach effort to help adults who attended college but did not finish return to school to complete a degree or career credential program. The program is being piloted in Cuyahoga Falls, and...