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Description

• SEEDS is a map to help adults intentionally demons
  trate behaviors throughout their daily
  interactions with children that enrich academic
  growth and promote social/emotional well-being. 
  SEEDS interactions feature
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• Sensitivity  Look, listen, and ask questions to
  become aware of  each child'needs, thoughts,
  abilities and feelings
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• Encouragement  Use intentional affirmations and
  positive non-verbal communication to create a
  shared positive learning environment
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• Education  Embed the Big 5 literacy skills in
  daily routines (vocabulary, conversation,
  phonological awareness, book and print rules, and
  letter knowledge)
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• Development of Skills Through Doing  Help
  children explore their world through hands-on
  learning
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• Self-Image Support Balance the SEEDS quality
  interactions to support a childs feeling of
  being respected and capable

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• Inspired by Betty Hart and Todd Risleys
  book Meaningful Differences in the Everyday
  Experience of Young American Children (1995),
  Kate Horst developed a framework for ensuring
  children would have the opportunity and
  experiences necessary to be school ready.  Now a
  nationally recognized curriculum, SEEDS was
  piloted from 2003 to 2005 for the Minnesota Early
  Literacy Training Project. In its evaluation of
  the SEEDS model, the University of
  Minnesotas Center for Early Education and
  Development (CEED) found that SEEDS made a
  difference for children, teachers, and coaches.
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• SEEDS Success Since 2005
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•   SEEDS has become a statewide training and
  coaching program for 6 of Minnesotas Early
  Reading First programs
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•   The SEEDS professional development model has
  been a key factor in the Minnesota Reading Corps
  (MRC) preschool Response to Intervention (RTI)
  success
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•   SEEDS has partnered with the Minnesota Child
  Care Resource and Referral Network to provided
  both online and in-person training
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•   SEEDS programming has helped the Santa Cruz
  County (Calif.) First Steps program and Santa
  Clara County First Five program meet the needs of
  Second Language Learners

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• Educational Philosophy
• SEEDS founder and president Kate Horst is
  passionate about closing the opportunity gap
  for all children and has dedicated her
  professional life to the idea that school
  readiness is more than just memorizing letters
  and learning their sounds.  Its about the
  relationships that develop between curious
  children and caring adults.  When those
  relationships are nurtured and supported during
  the earliest years of a childs life, the seeds
  of learning are sown and school readiness
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• Kate's BackgroundAs a first grade teacher and
  early childhood family education teacher for
  children (from birth to 5) and their parents,
  Kate has spent countless hours observing
  adult/child interactions. She also directed an
  Adolescent Parent High School Program where she
  realized that young parents who understood the 5
  basic concepts of Sensitivity, Encouragement,Educa
  tion, Development through Doing, and the power of
  positive Self Image could be successful in their
  relationships with their children

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