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From preschool through college and beyond, WVIZ/PBS ideastream plays a crucial role in formal education, serving as our region’s largest classroom. From pre-school through college and beyond, WVIZ/PBS ideastream provides educational opportunities to nearly 500,000 Northeast Ohio school children and 34,000 educators in over 275 schools and districts.
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Developing Early Literacy Skills
Early Childhood Educators and Parents, join us at 7 p.m. in Cleveland for a conversation about Developing Early Literacy Skills!
High-quality early childhood education experiences have positive impact on school-readiness skills, especially for low-income children. Join REL Midwest and WVIZ/PBS ideastream on Thursday, June 28, at the Idea Center at Playhouse Square from 7 to 8 p.m. in Cleveland for Developing Early Literacy Skills.
Nearly 75 percent of Ohio’s 50,000 at-risk children require intense or targeted literacy instruction, according to Ohio’s Kindergarten Readiness Assessment-Literacy of last year. This event intends to help you better understand research-based strategies that can be implemented in schools, homes, and communities to improve early childhood literacy skills.
Featured speakers are Timothy Shanahan, Ph.D., director of the Center for Literacy at the University of Illinois at Chicago, and Stephanie K. Siddens, Ph.D., director of the Office of Early Learning and School Readiness at the Ohio Department of Education.
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Professional Learning
Looking for standards-based professional learning? ideastream offers a wealth of professional learning opportunities.
More Professional Learning >Online Learning
The WVIZ Education Department provides educators with professional development opportunities in an accessible online format that makes learning fun, flexible, and collaborative.
More Online Learning >Distance Learning
WVIZ/PBS provides quality distance learning services to schools in Northeast Ohio and across the state.
More Distance Learning >Math & Science Learning
Services and resources designed to meet the organizational needs of the Pre-K-12 community in the areas of mathematics, science, and technology education.
SMART Consortium Site >Learning Media
WVIZ/PBS provides high-quality media products correlated with state and national curriculum standards.
More Learning Media >PBS KIDS
Do you have students (ages 2 to 8) in your life who likes to play games? Introduce them to PBS KIDS Lab, a site that gives children the tools to learn about math while playing free, fun, and educational math games with PBS KIDS characters.
This site is specifically designed to build children’s math skills and can be used at home, at the library, or in the classroom. Gathering math-based activities, games, and resources from PBS KIDS Ready to Learn programming that include Dinosaur Train, Super WHY, Curious George, Sid the Science Kid, FETCH! With Ruff Ruffman, Fizzy’s Lunch Lab` and The Cat in the Hat. This site is easily accessible in a cohesive environment for parents, teachers, and, of course, kids. The site is built on a math skills framework based on Common Core standards and addresses the full range of crucial math skills, such as numbers & operations, geometry, spatial sense & measurement, and algebra & data analysis. PBS KIDS Lab is funded by a Ready to Learn Grant from the U.S. Department of Education and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Ready to Learn teaches the key skills of the National Reading Panel, using online games featuring favorite PBS characters. PBS KIDS Island has demonstrated increases in developing letter recognition, rhyming, and beginning sound awareness fluency. Learn how you can use the games in your classroom and find related community engagement activities.
Continue with the learning with even more fun PBS learning games and activities at PBS Go.
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