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Success Stories
Project SEED has been instrumental in the lives of its students and classroom teachers. Here are some of their stories.
  • Demarron BerkeleyDemarron Berkeley, former SEED student, Attorney

    “My strongest memories about Project SEED, and the excitement we had whenever it was a SEED day, we all got really excited about math and learning new things. I developed a love of learning—it made me want to go outside of school and investigate things. It oriented my approach to learning where I took more ownership of it. I developed a lot of confidence—even to challenge a teacher. It builds foundations for later on. I think my approach to learning and teaching is more Socratic…I try to get the students engaged like the SEED teachers did. I’m 38 now…the fact that I still remember (Project SEED) so vividly—how engaged I was—tells you the impact of Project SEED on my life and how I’ve carried it with me through the years.”

  • Erica HemphillErica Hemphill: Former SEED Student, Current Math Teacher

    “Project SEED benefitted me personally in that it introduced me to higher-level math at an early age. It allowed me to be exposed to that math and not be afraid of it.”

  • Latrina RhinehartLatrina Rhinehart: 5th Grade Teacher

    “I’ve noticed because (the SEED instructor) does a lot of mental math problems, that I’m getting better at it, and so my anxiety with number sense has actually decreased because of this.”

  • Susan Yerkes-BenderSusan Yerkes-Bender, Teacher

    “I learned so much as a teacher, because it had been awhile since I had watched someone use the Socratic method of teaching with a classroom. That method of querying the students to get their responses so that they come to develop their own answers and come to their own conclusions – that’s a real art! I learned a great deal as a teacher in observing another teacher do that, and then I found I was better able to use that myself.”

  • 6th grade student, Compton, California

    “Project SEED was fun, creative, and imaginative. It helped with my math skills. I learned a whole lot more than I thought. On my bad days I would think of ditching but knew it would help so I went anyways.”