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Interesting ideas:We have school districts, why don't we have #earlylearning districts, too?
Educators/families: What do you think?
What if, as a counterpart to public school districts for children five and under, we had “early childhood districts” adapted to the early childhood
Creating a daily schedule helps kids organize events in a sequence and associate events with a time of day — important skills for learning to measure time! This Ruff Ruffman home activity explains how. (Grades: K-2)
This home activity from FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman helps your child learn measurement and measureable attributes - like telling time! You and your child will use sticky notes to create a daily schedule. Having a visual schedule helps children organize events in a sequence and asssociate events with a....
Every year, PBS NewsHour Student Reporting Labs releases prompts on different topics or themes tied to national and newsworthy issues, to create digital stories around these topics with specific instructions and guidelines. Each prompt outlines expectations for submissions and guides for teachers to help guide classroom discussions around the topics with intro activities.
SRL releases ALL of this year’s prompts at the same time for planning purposes. Each assignment outlines expectations for video submissions and guides for teachers to help guide classroom discussions around the topics with intro activities.
WXXI Education is looking for interested P-12 educators (from any learning setting!) to be part of our 2021-2022 Media Literacy Academy cohort.
This small group of educators will work together with WXXI Education staff to work towards PBS Media Literacy Educator Certification. Learn more and complete the interest form👇
WXXI Education is recruiting interested educators for our 2021-2022 local PBS Media Literacy Academy cohort.
WXXI Education's Back-To-School Digital Backpack has been updated for the upcoming new school year! We pulled together activities, checklists, recipes, and more to help families, educators, and learners transition back to school.
Find these resources and more at 👉
https://www.wxxi.org/education/back-school-digital-backpack
This school year will again look a little different so WXXI Education created a digital backpack with some resources to help you and your students start the year strong!WXXI's Back-to-School Digital
As Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adiche warned in her famous TED Talk, The Danger of a Single Story,
“Stories matter...Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity.”
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The evidence that systemic racism is embedded in our education system is clear: from zoning, to discriminatory policies, to “who” is teaching “what,” and the existence of a school-to-prison pipeline—this is an ongoing discussion across the country. This archived PBS Virtual Professional Learning session examines history and the effects of systemic racism on education, how we have come to understand it, and the role educators can play to actively disrupt and dismantle these harmful systems.
The evidence that systemic racism is embedded in our education system is clear: from zoning, to discriminatory policies, to “who” is teaching “what,” and the existence of a school-to-prison pipeline—this is an ongoing discussion across the country. This one-hour discussion will examine his...
Have you checked out PBS KIDS Afterschool Adventure!? These five-day thematic, multimedia activity plans designed to be implemented in just about 20 minutes each day.
Each activity guide includes digital content as well as related literacy connections and hands-on activities that allow children to practice and learn math skills to successfully complete a new adventure. And. rather than focus on a particular PBS KIDS show or character, these guides use math skills to connect kids to multiple shows, characters and adventures in order to deepen their understanding of the math content.
These five-day thematic, multimedia activity plans designed for afterschool programs can be implemented in just about 20 minutes each day. Practice and build math skills with PBS KIDS Lab daily or weekly.
What else in life are we, as an educational community in America, failing to experience when leaving out certain aspects that add value to our classrooms? In addition to that, if we fail to share our rich, diverse cultures, we also limit building a more inclusive community.
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The content we consume and teach impacts our students, colleagues and ourselves inside and outside the classroom. In this archived PBS VIrtual Professional Learning session, explore what stories are being told, who is doing the telling, and why. The conversation focuses on the impact that systemic racism and white supremacy have had historically on curricula, teacher perspective,teacher practice, and the actions we can take to more carefully assess the content, and consider its impact on our students.
The content we consume and teach impacts our students, colleagues and ourselves inside and outside the classroom. In this episode, we’ll explore what stories are being told, who is doing the telling, and why. This conversation will focus on the impact that systemic racism and white supremacy have ...
Looking to make viewing time more meaningful? Use these great PBS KIDS Activity Starters to be deliberate when inviting your students (and their families) to watch a PBS KIDS show. These resources can help by adding meaningful conversation and easy activities to their experience.
Get ready for the start of school with some of our favorite back-to-school resources! This collection features activities and video resources to help students get to know each other and their new school routines, and lesson plans to help you get your new class off to a great start.
As teachers, students, and families enter another uncertain school year with new routines, both in-person, hybrid, and/or virtual, PBS LearningMedia offers this special collection of flexible resources to support learning from anywhere.
Find videos, self-paced Interactive lessons, printable activities, and more for PreK-12th grade.
As teachers, students, and families enter an uncertain school year with new routines, both in-person and virtual, PBS LearningMedia offers this special collection of flexible resources to support learning from anywhere. Find videos, self-paced Interactive lessons, printable activities, and more.
Uprooting systemic racism and fostering liberation takes continuous and intentional action. In this archived PBS Virtual Professional learning series, the conversation focuses on tools, practices and frameworks to which we can hold ourselves and our peers accountable, while protecting our own mental health and building trusting effective partnerships with our peers and colleagues.
Uprooting systemic racism and fostering liberation takes continuous and intentional action. In this conversation we’ll discuss tools, practices and frameworks to which we can hold ourselves and our peers accountable, while protecting our own mental health and building trusting effective partnershi...
Play your way and choose activities, games, and videos to enjoy as you and your kiddos prepare to go back to school.
Play your way and choose activities, games, and videos to enjoy as you prepare to go back to school.
Jamin Crow is one of three Alaska Native students — along with Kaylee King and Ethan Lincoln — who made a podcast about their hunting tradition. The students are from different towns, but met as interns at NPR's member station WUKY in their senior year of high school. Right before they graduated last spring, their podcast was chosen as a finalist in this year's NPR Student Podcast Challenge.
In the remote Yukon Delta region of Alaska, many families practice subsistence hunting to get food on the table. Three students reconnected with that tradition during the pandemic.
Systemic racism has a destructive and direct impact on mental health and identity development. This archived Virtual Professional Learning session centers learners, focusing on the importance of our role as educators and how what we teach affirms or invalidates identities of learners and people in our world. We will consider the impact on the past, immediate, and future mental health of our students, and explore how systemic racism undermines our own mental health and impacts our teaching practice.
Systemic racism has a destructive and direct impact on mental health and identity development. This conversation will center learners, focusing on the importance of our role as educators and how what we teach affirms or invalidates identities of learners and people in our world. We will consider the...
The Kratts’ signature style is likely familiar to anyone who has tuned into PBS over the last 25 years for “Kratts’ Creatures” or “Zoboomafoo” or the animated “Wild Kratts”: a torrent of animals facts, muddy pratfalls (or “Kratt-falls” in their parlance), and unbridled enthusiasm for learning about wildlife in a particularly hands-on manner.
But the public television mainstays, now beloved by children across several generations, were once not quite so understood by grown-ups.
Months into an expedition through the Amazon in the early ’90s, the Kratt Brothers — as Chris and Martin Kratt are known — were on the lookout for giant river otters, German shepherd-sized an…
Hear from a few educators how utilizing new technologies and implementing culturally competent techniques provided additional support to virtual learners, especially English Language Learners.
Teachers are making language more accessible by slowing down speaking rates in order to accurately caption and translate speech using Google Meet, along with several other strategies.
Get ready for the start of school with some of our favorite back-to-school resources! This collection features activities and video resources to help students get to know each other and their new school routines, and lesson plans to help you get your new class off to a great start.
Get ready for the start of school with some of our favorite back-to-school resources! This collection features activities and video resources to help students get to know each other and their new school routines, and lesson plans to help you get your new class off to a great start.
As you're planning to go back into your classroom, do you need some new learning space decor? Print and post a set of early childhood posters to support your young learners. From counting 1-10, to identifying feelings, to naming the days of the week, you can leverage these PBS KIDS posters at Circle Time in Centers, and to support a school-to-home connection.
Print and post a set of early childhood posters to support your young learners. From counting 1-10, to identifying feelings, to naming the days of the week, you can leverage these PBS KIDS posters at Circle Time in Centers, and to support a school-to-home connection.
Illinois will require news literacy courses at every high school. The hope is that the classes will provide the next generation with tools to maneuver the internet's misinformation minefield.
Illinois will require news literacy courses at every high school. The hope is that the classes will provide the next generation with tools to maneuver the internet's misinformation minefield.
Invite your students to sing, dance, and learn alongside their favorite PBS KIDS friends! Discover new and fun ways to integrate music into lessons, routines, and activities to inspire everyday learning.
The curated songs in this collection center around themes like: social emotional learning, literacy, math, science, and life skills. Bring music into your classroom as you teach with tunes!
Invite your students to sing, dance, and learn alongside their favorite PBS KIDS friends! Discover new and fun ways to integrate music into lessons, routines, and activities to inspire everyday learning. The curated songs center around themes like: social emotional learning, literacy, math, science,...
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How To Keep Your Child Safe From The Delta Variant
Some public health experts are also parents of little kids, and have to strategize to keep those too young to be vaccinated safe from getting or spreading the delta variant. Here are their tips.
Unfortunately due to the rainy weather, we are cancelling tonight’s Pop Up in a Park at Cobbs Hill.
A national survey shows an increase in schools opting for a hybrid model.
Twenty percent of school and district leaders say they are planning to reopen schools under hybrid models -- an increase from 10% the previous month -- according to a survey from the EdWeek Research Center. The increase comes as the number of coronavirus cases is rising because of the Delta variant.
Going for walks can be a fun time to ask questions about each other. Take turns asking your child fun questions and then let them ask questions about you!
See how one family takes a walk and what they talk about in this short video called "Family Discovery Walk" from Parenting Minutes: https://www.wnet.org/education/video/family-discovery-walks/
Going for walks can be a fun time to ask questions about each other. Take turns asking your child fun questions and then let them ask questions about you!
See how one family takes a walk and what they talk about in this short video called "Family Discovery Walk" from Parenting Minutes: https://www.wnet.org/education/video/family-discovery-walks/
Check out the local showcase from teen filmmakers! Free event, 5:30pm 8/5 at The Little Theatre
ROCHESTER TEEN FILM FESTIVAL Thursday, August 5 @ 5:30pmLittle Theatre 1 (240 East Ave) FREE, and open to the public.Film screening, awards ceremony, and reception. WXXI Public Media and The Little Theatre are proud to sponsor the Rochester Teen Film Festival, a collaborative, juried media competiti...
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A live forum to discuss the processes and challenges schools are going through as they get ready to start the school year amid the coronavirus pandemic. Panelists include: Kathleen Graupman, superintendent of Greece Central School District, and president of the Monroe County Council of Superintendents Gene Mancuso, superintendent of Honeoye Falls-Lima Central School District Dr. Michael Mendoza, M.D., Monroe County Public Health Commissioner Lesli Myers-Small, superintendent of Rochester City School District Leslie Seltzer, vice president, Brighton PTSA
REMINDER: This special "WXXI Live Forum: Reopening Schools" is happenign TONIGHT at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV and simulcasts on AM 1370. It will also stream on WXXINews.org and WXXI News. The forum will explore the challenges of bringing students back to the classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic.
WXXI is hosting a live forum that explores the challenge of bringing students back to the classroom during the COVID-19 pandemic. "WXXI Live Forum: Reopening Schools" airs this Tuesday at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV and simulcasts on AM 1370. It will also stream on WXXINews.org and WXXI News
Looking for a creative way to help your students experience music from their homes? Carnegie Hall Live, a 13-week series that presents highlights and conversations with some of the world’s best performers and ensembles in this specially-curated series, airs Wednesday nights at 8 on WXXI Classical 91.5.
WXXI explores the unique challenges people living with disabilities have faced as a result of the coronavirus outbreak. WXXI LIVE FORUM: The Impact of COVID-19 on People with Disabilities airs Thursday at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV and AM 1370, and streams on WXXI News Facebook live. This program is part of Move to Include, a partnership between WXXI and The Golisano Foundation designed to promote inclusion for people with intellectual and physical disabilities. Addition support from Greater Rochester Health Foundation and Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Mark the women’s suffrage centennial with stories of pioneering women who shaped American politics and every other part of American life and society. Check out a playlist of sample stories from the show. "Unladylike2020: The Changemakers" premieres July10 at 9PM on WXXI-TV. https://www.wxxi.org/wh/unladylike-TVprogram
"Women at the dawn of the 20th century were impatient for the change that they were realizing in their own lives." THE VOTE premieres July 6 and continues on July 7 at 9PM on WXXI-TV → https://www.wxxi.org/wh/american-experience-vote
"If it becomes necessary to fight to win, I believe in fighting." THE VOTE premieres across two nights beginning Mon July 6 and Tues July 7 at 9PM Celebrate 100 years of women's suffrage to expand democracy! → https://www.wxxi.org/wh/american-experience-vote
The right to vote wasn't given to women — they fought for it, and won. Celebrate the 100th anniversary of the largest expansion of voting rights in US history. THE VOTE premieres in a two-night event, beginning Mon July 6 at 9PM on WXXI-TV (Continues Tuesday July 7 at 9PM) Learn More: https://www.wxxi.org/wh/american-experience-vote
Dive into the life and career of groundbreaking writer, performer and subversive star Mae West. Over a career spanning eight decades, she broke boundaries and possessed creative and economic powers unheard of for a female entertainer in the 1930s. American Masters — Mae West: Dirty Blonde airs Tuesday, June 16, 2020 at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV. Learn More: https://www.wxxi.org/highlights/2020/05/american-masters-mae-west-dirty-blonde
Did you know that Mother's Day has its origins in the Civil War? Find out how it all began from this "All About the Holidays" video!
WXXI hosts a televised, virtual forum with medical researchers from University of Rochester and Rochester Regional Health to share COVID-19 information and answer your questions - Thursday at 8 p.m. on WXXI-TV, simulcast on AM 1370 and streaming on WXXINews.org and right here on Facebook at WXXI News.
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Curious about Molly of Denali and how the series helps your students learn? Executive producer, Dorothea Gillim, and creative producer, Princess Daazhrii Johnson, tell us what inspired the show.
History, nature and science delivered right to your door. WXXI World will air a special schedule of programming for 6-12th grade students, weekdays from 12 to 5 p.m. Learn more and see this week's schedule at: https://www.wxxi.org/education/wxxi-world-channel-learn-home-schedule
To help students, families and educators with their remote learning, WXXI-TV will begin broadcasting a “Learn At Home” schedule from 6am-6pm Monday-Friday with grade level hours. See this week's schedule and support questions and resources. https://www.wxxi.org/education/LearnAtHomeTV PBS KIDS programming continues on WXXI Kids 24/7 channel on 21.1/Cable 1277/1278 to support our youngest viewers.
PBS LearningMedia New York is the go-to destination for instant access to education-ready, digital resources to support PreK-12th grade educators and students. Resources include videos, audio, photos, images, lesson plans, handouts, primary & secondary documents, self-paced lesson modules, and more.
A message from Susan Rogers about WXXI's Learn At Home service to support families, educators, and students as a community classroom during temporary school closings. The service includes WXXI TV and WXXI Education online and social media to provide resources for all students learning at home. Learn More at WXXI.org/education
WXXI-TV is airing a 6Am-6PM weekday Learn At Home schedule. When watching you will see learning and reflection questions on screen to help you think about the program and what you learned from it. Find more questions and resources at https://wxxi.org/education
WXXI is here to support you during school closings with our Learn At Home Resources. WXXI-TV is broadcasting a grade level “Learn At Home” schedule from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. weekdays starting Monday, 3/23. WXXI Kids 24/7 channel will remain the same with PBS KIDS favorites for our youngest viewers. WXXI Education has curated and created resources, virtual events and hands-on activities in support of educators, students, and families posted on this site, in social media and e-newsletters. Go to: https://wxxi.org/education
It's #NationalThankYouCardDay Thank your family and friends for being there for you! #gratitude #2019
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