| Ready Set Learn!
Discovery Kids’ Ready Set Learn is a block of television programming for preschoolers. We have worked with Ready Set Learn to:
- Produce and disseminate a calendar to preschool classrooms and children’s librarians
- Recruit and convene an advisory board of specialists in early childhood, media and social/emotional development;
- Create a partnership with National Head Start Association
- Produce and disseminate a poster to Head Start classrooms around the country. View the Poster Front / View the Poster Back
- Develop and implement a conference on “Optimism, Persistence and Resilience: Social Emotional Learning in Early Childhood”.
View the Conference Invitation
- Produce "TV Teaches" a media literacy booklet for teachers and parents. View the Media Literacy Booklet
- Develop the Media Literacy Training Manual and Training Workshop
- Produce a panel discussion "Preschoolers and Television: What Works, What Doesn't and Why" -- a featured presentation at the 2005 NAEYC and NHSA Conferences
Ready to Learn About Conflict
With a major grant from PBS and the Heinz Family Foundation,
we created the Ready to Learn About Conflict project
for parents of young children. Working with an advisory
board of experts in early childhood and violence prevention,
we used existing children’s PBS shows and produced
our our video segments for use in four workshops for
parents. We provided a one-day Train-the-Trainer Workshop
for 130 PBS Station Outreach coordinators and their
community partners so that they could implement workshops
in their communities.
Puzzle
Place
 Our most comprehensive experience with outreach for
an early childhood program was from 1995 - 1998 with
KCET and Lancit Media’s The
Puzzle Place, a PBS children’s series focusing
on diversity. This project included the following elements:
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Two-day training workshops for PBS
station outreach coordinators (We implemented nine
workshops with a monthly follow-up component over
four years.) |
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100-page guide for child care providers containing
diversity information and classroom activities |
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Training Manual to enable trainers to facilitate
diversity-focused workshops for child care providers |
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16-page booklet for parents |
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Poster for children |
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Conflict Resolution Module |
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Evaluation and Assessment |
Reading Rainbow
Consulted with the producers of Reading Rainbow on their
“Math is Everywhere” initiative.
Storytime
For KCET Hollywood, producers of this 65-episode series,
we produced a “Caregiver Guide” with activities
linked to the books. |
