Who are your favorite historical heroes? Jackie Joyner Kersee? Anna Pavlova? Martin Luther King? Helen Keller? Amelia Earhart? Imagine being able to travel back in time with your children to meet real-life inspirational figures when they were kids. You can with the PBS KIDS show, Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum on WILL-TV and anytime on-line at PBS KIDS.
As a parent, you might be daunted by the role of “school teacher” while your children’s schools are closed because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Your local PBS television station is here to help!
Now that all of Illinois’ schools are closed through March 31, you might be wondering how to keep the kids playing and learning at home. I’m with you! I have a daughter in kindergarten who turns six in two days! WILL Education is here to help.
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.
