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Application Deadline Extended to May 30th

2012 New Leaders' Workshops

July 12-19 and July 26 - August 2
San Domenico School
San Anselmo, CA
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SEED Project Leaders 2011 

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What is SEED training?

The SEED Project is in its twenty-sixth year of establishing teacher-led faculty development seminars that help create equitable multicultural and gender-balanced curricula by using inclusive pedagogies.

SEED leaders from various disciplines, grade levels, and diverse ethnic, cultural, and class backgrounds staff the week-long summer training, along with National SEED Project Co-Directors Emmy Howe, a former elementary school teacher and a founder of the Welcoming Schools Initiative; Emily Style, an English teacher who has taught in urban and suburban New Jersey public and private schools and has done adjunct teaching for Cornell and NYU; and Dr. Brenda Flyswithhawks, Instructor in Psychology at Santa Rosa Junior College in California. Also joining them is Dr. Peggy McIntosh, founder, past co-director, and now senior associate for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation SEED Expansion, 2011-14. Howe and McIntosh are based at the Wellesley Centers for Women.

What do SEED leaders do?

Teachers trained as SEED leaders return to their schools and hold year-long, monthly seminars with 10-20 colleagues to work together to make school climate and curricula more gender-fair and multiculturally equitable. The SEED Project provides ongoing technical assistance and resources.

The primary participants of SEED seminars are public and private K-12 educators. In some cases, parents, college instructors, and administrators have also participated.

Educators connected to the SEED network testify that as a result of their SEED seminar experience, they listen to all voices, including their own, with widened attention. SEED participants are able to embrace with more confidence and competence the challenges and joys of the many kinds of diversity found in their own lives and in the lives of others, especially their students and colleagues.

SEED seminars have now been led by SEED leaders in over 30 U.S. states and 11 international locations.

Once begun, many SEED seminars continue meeting for years, because of the profound change that the SEED experience has on educators, the curricula, and their students.

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Cost

• $3900 per leader participation fee, payable by the school or district to the National SEED Project;
• plus $1000 from a school administrator or Board of Education to be spent by the SEED leader(s) on materials for local seminars.
• Fellowship Grants to cover a portion of the SEED cost are available to qualified schools. For the 2012-2013 school year, SEED is awarding up to 10 Fellowship Grants of between $2,000 - $4,000 per SEED leader to offset the cost of SEED in a school. For more information, contact Emmy Howe at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it  or 781.283.2512. Apply now for the SEED Fellowship Grant.
• Public schools which serve the most vulnerable children and families are eligible for grants to cover ALL SEED-connected fees and expenditures, thanks to funding for SEED from the W. K. Kellogg Foundation. Six public schools in either rural or urban areas will be funded during each of the next three years, 2012-2014. For more information, contact Peggy McIntosh, This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or 781-283-2520. Apply now for the Waiver of SEED fees. Waiver applicant schools must also submit a SEED application for each individual (teachers, parent/community leaders, or college/university educators).

Application forms

• For teachers (PDF) (Word)
• For parents or community leaders (PDF) (Word)
• For college or university educators (PDF) (Word)
• Waiver of SEED fees (see below) (PDF) (Word)
• SEED Fellowship Application and Administrative Support Form (PDF) (Word)