Seed Sowers & Storytellers
Building young readers, storytellers, and community leaders in Rochester.
Seed Sowers & Storytellers is FSLC’s school-year afterschool program, combining literacy, cultural learning, mentorship, creativity, and community connection in a space where scholars are known, supported, and challenged to grow.
Learning happens where life unfolds
Seed Sowers & Storytellers is more than homework help. Scholars learn through books, conversations, creative expression, gardening, community experiences, and relationships with adults and peers who recognize their strengths.
Read books that reflect their lives, histories, and communities
Strengthen reading skills through targeted literacy support
Tell stories through writing, art, discussion, and creative media
Explore gardening, science, and environmental learning
What scholars do
Stories that speak to who they are
Build stronger readers
Scholars engage with culturally reflective literature while receiving literacy instruction and targeted support designed around their individual growth.
Find and use their voice
Through writing, discussion, art, presentations, and emerging storytelling projects, scholars learn that their experiences and ideas are worth sharing.
Learn by doing
Gardening, environmental learning, STEM, field experiences, and community projects give scholars opportunities to connect learning to the world around them.
Seeing themselves as capable
Scholars practice responsibility, advocacy, collaboration, and leadership while learning that they can make a difference in themselves, their families, their communities, and beyond.
Positive self-concept shapes everything
A child who sees themselves as capable can begin to see themselves differently as a reader, thinker, storyteller, and leader.
Seed Sowers & Storytellers creates a transformational learning space where scholars’ strengths are recognized, their cultures are honored, and their capacity to make a difference is cultivated and encouraged. That language is closely aligned with FSLC’s established vision.
Built together
Strong partnerships keep this program rooted in community
Children's Defense Fund
Leading the vision and daily work with scholars
Covenant United Methodist
Providing space for scholars, families, staff, and community partners to learn and gather.
Iris Banister School #33
Supporting scholars' school success and community connection
Cornell Cooperative Extension 4-H
Bringing horticultural expertise and youth development knowledge
Their words
What scholars and families say
importance of reading. I especially appreciate the gardening, the way they engage with parents, and
family nights where we all connect. FSLC feels like an extended family, not just a program.”
social skills, and his community. Most importantly, I value the safe and nurturing environment where he is
supported daily.”
Join us this
School Year
Apply or reach out with questions about the Seed Sowers and Storytellers After School Program at Freedom Scholars Learning Center.