ICAN Audio Book Tour
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ICAN’s Audio Book Tour features diverse contemporary children’s stories to supplement learning in and out of the classroom. The series is engaging, accessible, and a timely resource for families.
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ICAN’s Audio Book Tour features diverse contemporary children’s stories to supplement learning in and out of the classroom. The series is engaging, accessible, and a timely resource for families.
Mississippi continues to rank at the bottom for COVID-19 vaccinations. To combat misinformation and provide a vital resource for Mississippians, we created the COVID-19 in Mississippi Vaccine Guide.
Journalists and diverse youth in New Orleans produced a video series profiling young local changemakers of color, driving narrative change in how local stories are told and who gets to tell them.
We used virtual instruction to reach more young journalists and empower them to report on their communities in NC. The result was a more robust and diverse YRI that benefited WUNC and its audience.
We noticed the two high schools we cover were news deserts – neither have student papers. So we set out to provide an outlet for aspiring journalists while also improving our coverage of young people.
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Education Counts is a weekly program helping educators learn from other schools in the region, share their successes and challenges with the community, and increase support of education.
“NewsDepth” is a weekly interactive digital series that breaks down the biggest news stories into fun standards-aligned lessons for 4th to 6th-grade students across Ohio.
Iowa Science Phenomena allows Iowa educators/scientific community to use and contribute user-generated, standards-aligned, Iowa-based phenomena through a free, publicly available web-based platform.
The Michigan Learning Channel is a 24/7 resource for PreK-12 students with curriculum-based content. Built to eliminate connection issues for Michigan students so they could keep learning at home.
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Over 10 weeks, students gained an understanding of the fundamentals of podcasting, production skills and marketing tips, and they walked away with a resource list for the future. WFAE believes in the power of podcasting to amplify diverse voices, remove barriers to storytelling and to build and connect communities.
CareerExplore Northwest is an educational initiative created by KSPS PBS as a workforce development solution for our viewing region. Far beyond a typical job search website, it helps students and adults discover viable career paths by providing behind-the-scenes videos and easily accessible answers to questions about in-demand jobs in the Spokane region and what it takes to get them.
Prior to the pandemic, WFYI had set up a Be My Neighbor Day event at the city library with several community partners, a sensory-friendly area and an expected 1,200 guests. COVID-19 forced us to cancel the live event, so we pivoted to a mix of educational outreach and volunteer engagement for a Be My Neighbor Week.
Grace Weber’s Music Lab (GWML) is a free monthly music education program and talent accelerator for Milwaukee area high schoolers, providing opportunities to refine performance skills, build connections between engaged and talented young people, expose participants to the multiple career opportunities available in creative industries and to participate in performances and talks. This program is critical to meeting the growing and changing needs of our city and youth. Grace Weber’s Music Lab reaches kids with art forms that are increasingly relevant and central to their lives, including diverse music from hip-hop to alternative to spoken word.
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