Education Blog

With the start of the new school year comes the beginning of a new reading cycle for WILL- TV’s Book Mentor Project, a partnership between WILL, PNC’s Grown Up Great program and Champaign County Head Start.

Raising, supporting and teaching very young children is an awesome responsibility that takes all kinds of skills, patience and access to resources.  If you are in the midst of doing this work, you are helping lay the foundation for a child’s lifelong learning, and WILL wants to thank and support you.

What happened when WILL Education and Illinois Newsroom brought high school students and teachers together with elected officials and journalists? Better election coverage for public and commercial media, engaging civics education, and inspired journalists

Young children learn best through play.  And play is natural for children.  Engaging your child with math is as important as reading to your child.  You can play with your children while helping them learn math. 

Young people consume news and they are disappointed with what gets covered and how they are portrayed. We can do better or we can be left behind.

Did you know that Sesame Street wasn’t always the kind place we know it to be today?

Legend has it that Santa and his reindeer use to fly over Sesame Street because it lacked warmth and kindness.  That changed when Elmo’s great, great, great grandfather visited Sesame Street and started to act kindly to the people he found there.

When you hear the words “designer” or “engineer” do you think to yourself, “That’s not for me!” If so, then this blog post is for you. WILL’s Education Department can help you see yourself as those things and, if you are a parent, help you guide your children to see themselves as designers and engineers, too.

Children love games.  In addition, they love positive attention from the adults in their lives.  If you combine these two with a little guidance from Sesame Street’s Finances for Kids, you can help children as young as four years old learn the basics of financial literacy.

Spark your pre-school aged child’s imagination as they go on an adventure-packed ride with Bear from Bear on a Bike by Stella Blackstone.  Your child will have many opportunities to test their observational skills along the way!  This is the second book in WILL- TV’s Book Mentor Project, a partnership between WILL, PNC’s Grown Up Great program and Champaign County Head Start.

Please, Mr. Panda helps teach very young children the rewards of manners. And it's the first book we'll introduce to pre-school age children this academic year through our Book Mentor Project.