Teachers Comment on SEED

"This was an opportunity to get back into the frame of mind of reading. So I appreciate the SEED program for that."

"I enjoy getting to sit down once a month with people to whom I'd only say one or two words otherwise. I think [SEED] has helped me to get to know people I work with. That is the most important part of the meeting for me, getting to hear other people's stories."

"This is my first year with SEED. I learned that teachers are human; we all have the same or similar problems. I read books I never would have read before, never, never. I get a lot of insight. This has made me less skeptical."

"We're really isolated here. [SEED] gives us a chance to know our colleagues as real people."

"As an educator, anything that I'm exposed to always gets back to the students in class.""[SEED] reaffirms my belief that you can achieve diversity and also appreciate the univesality of human experience. In my classroom, one of the things I always try to do is talk about the universal experiences we all share, at the same time we appreciate the diversity of our country."

"SEED has brought me new insights, especially Brain Sex. It is a chance to think outside the usual lines."

"I needed to come here, every single meeting this year, to believe in people's humanity. If I had not been able to come here, to listen to all of you, it would have been very difficult to keep the faith, to keep hope alive. And I want to thank you, because it wasn't a big overt thing, it was just coming here, it was just listening"

	"This was an opportunity to get back into the frame of mind of reading. So I appreciate the SEED program for that." "I enjoy getting to sit down once a month with people to whom I'd only say one or two words otherwise. I think [SEED] has helped me to get to know people I work with. That is the most important part of the meeting for me, getting to hear other people's stories."
"This is my first year with SEED. I learned that teachers are human; we all have the same or similar problems. I read books I never would have read before, never, never. I get a lot of insight. This has made me less skeptical."
"We're really isolated here. [SEED] gives us a chance to know our colleagues as real people." "As an educator, anything that I'm exposed to always gets back to the students in class.""[SEED] reaffirms my belief that you can achieve diversity and also appreciate the univesality of human experience. In my classroom, one of the things I always try to do is talk about the universal experiences we all share, at the same time we appreciate the diversity of our country."
	"SEED has brought me new insights, especially Brain Sex. It is a chance to think outside the usual lines." "I needed to come here, every single meeting this year, to believe in people's humanity. If I had not been able to come here, to listen to all of you, it would have been very difficult to keep the faith, to keep hope alive. And I want to thank you, because it wasn't a big overt thing, it was just coming here, it was just listening"