{"id":21920,"date":"2019-10-03T08:25:33","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T12:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/littlesponges.com\/?page_id=21920"},"modified":"2024-03-04T10:32:08","modified_gmt":"2024-03-04T15:32:08","slug":"about-natalya-k-seals","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/littlesponges.com\/index.php\/about-natalya-k-seals\/","title":{"rendered":"Natalya Seals, Founder & CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Natalya Seals is an innovative leader focused on multilingual EdTech for young children. She spent the first part of her career working for Fortune 500 companies where she led breakthrough innovations for several big global brands and taught best practices in the Center of Excellence for Digital Innovation at P&G.\u00a0 Natalya earned her MBA degree from the University of Tennessee.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Natalya\u2019s bilingual skills gave her a tremendous advantage in her work and she wanted to pass these benefits to her children. While teaching her children a second language, she noticed a big gap in the availability of language teaching materials for young children. She decided to invest her time and resources to fill this gap by leading a team of experts to create\u00a0<\/span>Little Sponges\u00ae<\/a><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0– an interactive, language program that makes language learning fun, easy and effective for young children.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>

Today, Little Sponges provides a high-quality language platform that includes instructional video content, assessments, interactive games, and other learning activities in multiple languages (English, Spanish, Chinese, French, German, Russian, and Arabic).\u00a0
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Natalya believes that when learning is joyful, children do better in school and life.\u00a0 This belief is what motivates Natalya and her team to make learning fun for every child!\u00a0<\/p>

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Natalya and her team collaborate with school leaders and teachers across the country on implementing Little Sponges to improve the engagement and learning outcomes of young multilingual learners. Little Sponges has been successfully utilized by schools and parents across the country for many years!\u00a0 Schools that use this program report incredible growth in their students’ language and literacy skills!<\/p>

Connect with Natalya on LinkedIn<\/a><\/span><\/span> or reach out via email natalya@little-sponges.com<\/p>

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