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ApSeed outlines what children should be able to do for kindergarten
Going to kindergarten? Along with Seedling devices, the ApSeed program distributes materials that include this list of things children should be able to do as they enter kindergarten. Children are ready for kindergarten if they are 5 years old on or before Aug. 31, the information sheet says. “Every child learns skills at a different…
Read MoreVIDEO: 200 free tablets designed to help Buncombe preschoolers become ‘kindergarten-ready’
A nonprofit is giving tools to some children in Buncombe County to help them have greater success in school. NC nonprofit ApSeed on July 13 distributed 200 educational tablets to preschool-aged children from low-income families in Buncombe County. The tablets are designed to make children “kindergarten-ready” — an opportunity that many underserved children might otherwise…
Read MoreNonprofit gifts educational tablets to underprivileged WNC children to prepare for kindergarten
Watch full story BUNCOMBE COUNTY, NC — More underprivileged children in western North Carolina are going to be properly educated by the time kindergarten starts thanks to the efforts of a nonprofit. ApSeed Early Childhood Education made multiple stops this afternoon throughout Buncombe County handing out kits that included learning touch tablets. The tablets are…
Read MoreApSeed: Supporting Youngest Readers
By Jeanna Baxter White – Davie County Blog “We aren’t looking for advocates anymore, we are looking for accomplices and we have them in Davie County,” says Greg Alcorn, founder of ApSeed Early Childhood Education. “The Mebane Foundation has been the rockstar of all partners for ApSeed.” The Mebane Foundation and ApSeed Early Childhood…
Read MoreApSeed hires Executive Director to lead growth
Press Release for immediate distribution – March 1, 2023 After six years of steady growth, ApSeed has announced its first, full-time Executive Director. Dr. Julie Morrow joins ApSeed to lead expansion in ten North Carolina counties. ApSeed received non-recurring state funding to pilot its unique early childhood model in these counties. “We are ecstatic to…
Read MoreRowan among school districts to join ApSeed Pre-K program for 2023-24
SALISBURY — Rowan County is one of 10 school districts in the state selected for the ApSeed Early Childhood Education program for 2023-24. In 2022, the state legislature appropriated $2.5 million to ApSeed, allowing the organization to provide their unique Seedling Touchpads and training materials to disadvantaged children. The goal is to improve assessment outcomes…
Read More“The year of seeing clearly”: ApSeed looks toward further expansion in 2020
For the Salisbury Post SALISBURY — Since rolling out its first literacy-focused touchpad in 2016, local nonprofit ApSeed has seen explosive growth in the number of children it serves. The group began in 2016, offering specially engineered tablet devices to children from birth to age 4. The devices, called Seedlings, offer applications devoted to building…
Read MoreMy plea to 2020 candidates:
Talk less about student loans, much more about the very young Kenneth A. Dodge Opinion Contributor USA Today As we lean in to election season, candidates are vying for votes by appealing to families. Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren want to cancel college loan debt. Sen. Cory Booker supports baby bonds, which are…
Read MoreGreg Alcorn talks ApSeed’s expansion plans at Kiwanis
SALISBURY — Since its launch in 2016, grassroots Salisbury nonprofit ApSeed has distributed 5,300 free, literacy-developing tablets across Rowan and Davie counties. But the number, said founder Greg Alcorn as he addressed members of the Salisbury Kiwanis Club on Friday, represented just a fraction of what he called the organization’s “BHAG” — big hairy audacious…
Read MoreApSeed: Encouraging literacy from an early start
Greg Alcorn has a dream: to get one of ApSeed’s seedlings into the hands of every child ages 0 to 4 in North Carolina, in the United States, and in the world. While he laughs a little as he professes this dream, anyone who talks to him about ApSeed will see he is serious. Alcorn…
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