Equity & Achievement Challenge

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

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...
Rethinking Key Steps To Reading Success in 2020

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...
Rethinking Key Steps To Reading Success in 2020

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...
Rethinking Key Steps To Reading Success in 2020

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...