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About Seiberling Elementary School

  • The school offers multiple intelligence teaching.
  • AkronReads has more than 50 tutors from Summa Health Care who volunteer at the school each week.
  • Students who pass the third-grade reading achievement and fourth-grade reading proficiency tests participate in the Walk of Fame. The entire staff celebrates the accomplishment with applause. Everyone stops to greet the students as they parade through the building.
  • Seiberling offers the Principal's Club. Students with the highest GPA in grades 3-5 are recognized in an assembly and eat lunch with the principal.
  • All students with perfect attendance receive a certificate signed by the principal and are first in line on pizza day.
  • After-school tutoring programs are conducted by certified classroom teachers. Programs focus on reading strategies and skills.
  • Seiberling offers the supplemental reading program Scholastic Reading Counts, a computerized reading program that permits children to work independently.
  • Seiberling boasts an active PTA which hosts Harvest Day and supports all other school programs.
  • Children and staff are nominated for PAKAS awards (Practicing Acts of Kindness at Seiberling) for demonstrating CHARACTER COUNTS!SM qualities. Recipients receive a certificate and a "good" call home from the principal.
  • Students receive tickets for completing homework. Each week, recipients' names are added to a drawing at the end of the week to receive prizes.
  • The Seiberling school pledge is repeated each day during announcements to reaffirm school goals and direction toward learning.
  • Seiberling recognizes cultural diversity at an annual Multicultural Fair.
  • Fourth- and fifth-grade boys can join the HOOP basketball program (Hoping for Other Opportunities).
  • Fifth-grade girls can participate in Seiberling's volleyball program.
  • Teachers have an average of 19 years of experience, and 78% hold a master's degree or higher.


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