No Substitute for Experience: Learning from a Launch

No Substitute for Experience: Learning from a Launch

  Written by: Matthew Deevers, PhD – Executive Director  My son and I recently had the opportunity to stand on a beach in Florida as NASA launched the Mars rover Perseverance into outer space. An Atlas V rocket carried the rover into space, leaving Earth at roughly...
No Substitute for Experience: Learning from a Launch

It is time to live up to our ideals

  Written by: Matthew Deevers, PhD – Executive Director  We celebrated July 4th this past weekend. Independence Day is one of my favorite holidays. I think of picnics and games, of watching fireflies twinkle over dewy grass at dusk and waiting for the first crackle of...

DiCola Assumes Expanded Leadership Role

New focus spans Cradle to Career Laura DiCola is now the Director of Strategic Initiatives and Policy at Summit Education Initiative, where she will focus on building and sustaining efforts across the cradle to career continuum. She will also play an active role in...

SEI helps Summer Programs measure impact

Supporting Partners Who Support Our Students SEI is once again working in partnership with United Way of Summit and Medina, GAR Foundation and the Akron Community Foundation to provide technical support to nonprofit organizations that offer summer programs to Summit...

SEI Helps High School Students Prepare for College Admissions Testing

More than 5,000 high school students in Summit County had the opportunity to prepare for future college admissions tests during the 2019-2020 school year through supportive partnerships between SEI and area high schools.  Ohio law requires high schools to offer either...