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Media Education Consultants
73 Winthrop Road
Brookline, Massachusetts
02445-4529
 
Simone Bloom Nathan
tel: 617.975.0133
fax: 617.738.9933
sbnathan@mediaedco.org
 
 
 
 
 
 

Ready Set Learn

Client: Discovery Kids/Ready Set Learn

Target Audience: Preschool Training Specialists

We developed a one-day workshop focusing on preschoolers on television. The workshop explores research on preschoolers and television and uses a variety of program clips that participants analyze and discuss. Participants take home the Media Literacy Training Manual, a comprehensive guide to implementing a workshop for preschool teachers.
 
 
 

American High

Client: Twin Cities Public Television

Target Audience: Parents of Teenagers

Working with specialists in teen issues, we developed a four-part series of workshops focusing on three topics affecting today’s teens and their parents.

  • Part 1: Being a Teenager Today
  • Part 2: Parent/Teen Communication
  • Part 3: Drugs and Alcohol
 
 
 

Dolphins: Science Careers for Girls

Client: MacGillivray Freeman Films

Target Audience: Girls aged 10-13

We partnered with Girl Scouts of the USA and Aspira to develop a three-part series of activities focusing on science career opportunities for girls using Kathleen Dudzinski, marine biologist featured in the Dolphins IMAX film, as a role model.

  • Part 1: Examining the science careers involved in making the Dolphins film
  • Part 2: Exploring science careers using “biography sheets”
  • Part 3: Making advertisements to promote science careers
 
 
 
Leading the Way

Client: National Center for Outreach Conference Presentation (2003)

Target Audience: PBS Station Outreach Directors

A workshop exploring the skills and attributes of leaders. Workshop includes looking at participants’ ideal leaders traits and actions, building a “model” of ideal leadership and a skills-based self-assessment questionnaire.
 
 
 
Outreach 101

Client: Harvard Graduate School of Education

Target Audience: Media/Education graduate students

Gave an annual lecture on Outreach for graduate students in Professor Gerald Lesser’s Proposal Writing Seminar.
 
 

PBS KIDS Ready to Learn About Conflict

Client: PBS

Target Audience: Parents of young children

Working with an advisory board of specialists in early childhood and conflict resolution, we created four workshops focusing on the skills of positive conflict resolution.

  • Workshop 1: Examining Conflict
  • Workshop 2: Communication Skills
  • Workshop 3: Parent-Child Conflicts
  • Workshop 4: Child-Child conflicts
 
 

Urban Improv

Client: Urban Improv, Boston

Target Audience: Teenagers

Seven-part series of topic-focused activities about teen issues
Topics:

  • Racism/Prejudice/Stereotyping
  • Violence/Conflict Resolution
  • Sexual Harassment
  • Homosexuality
  • Teen Pregnancy
  • Bystander Roles
  • Ostracism
 
 
 

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