The Purpose of Data Collection Virginia McManus on the how, why, when, and purpose of data collection at FluentSeeds. As an early educator, Virginia saw how challenging it can be when kindergartners enter school with huge disparities. Some children begin knowing all the letter names and sounds of the English alphabet, while others are having...Read More

Were we all sold a story? By now you’re likely familiar with the podcast from APM Reports, Sold a Story, detailing how authors and their distributors promoted unproven methods of reading instruction that resulted in immeasurable harm to students for over an entire generation. Well-intentioned educators and decision-makers were convinced to use faulty teaching methods...Read More

Average Growth Students in SEEDS performed twice as well regardless of school or educational level of tutor/teacher The program had statistically significant and large effects across all five IGDI outcome measures of emergent literacy skills for 4- and 5-year-old students. As shown in Table 1. below, students’ letter sound fluency scores increased significantly from Fall...Read More