This summer let’s get the kids outside, into nature, and making their own discoveries! Dr. Scott Sampson, host of Dinosaur Train, provides some Expert Tips & Advice to PBS Parents about the importance of letting our children play and explore the outdoors.
The pressure to read at the appropriate grade level can be overwhelming and even scary for some children. We know strong reading skills help lay the foundation for a student’s educational career. Chicago literacy expert, Timothy Shanahan, explained to Today’s Parent that a British study released in 2013 showed children’s literacy and math levels at age seven were predictive of their overall earnings at the age of 42. How do we make reading a skill that children love instead of a complicated task they despise?
According to the National Center for Education Statistics, on average, kids in Illinois spend about five hours a day in school. Today’s students are our next generation and it is vital that they understand the importance of sustainability. One way to introduce kids to sustainability is through the classroom environment.
President Trump’s proposed budget eliminates all federal funding for public broadcasting and threatens the collapse of the entire system. The good news is PBS ranks high as a trusted and valued public institution by the American people. Speaking with your member of Congress about why you value public media could help save the system.
How do teachers continue to cover social studies content if designated instructional minutes are being cut? The answer lies with integrated curriculum!
The Women’s Marches of 2017 may have been the largest demonstration in US history. There were over 200 international Women’s Marches across the globe as well. As this is a very interesting time for women around the world, it is only fitting that we take a moment and celebrate National Women’s History Month.
A new and upcoming educational trend, Math Circles, is helping teachers collaborate and work on fun, challenging math alongside research mathematicians to bring creativity and discovery learning to classrooms.
This spring WILL-TV will host Design Squad Global-an engineering program that connects Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School students in Urbana with students from the Young Palms Club in Nigeria and Lagos.
At WILL-TV, we will air a wide variety of Black History Month programing ranging from seasonal series like Mercy Street to entertainment honors like the Smokey Robinson special. Be sure to tune in and help us celebrate Black History Month!
“If it is not good enough for my child, then why are we putting any children in those schools?” asks journalist Nikole Hannah-Jones. Though school segregation was outlawed in 1954, many schools remain segregated or have re-segregated today. Fresh Air’s Terry Gross interviewed Nikole Hannah-Jones about 21st century school segregation.
