Education Activities – Coronavirus Responses and Resources Stations, Producers and National Organizations

National Organizations PBS – PBS has created multiple resources for teachers, parents, students and stations to use, including: • A Pre K-12 Resources for Emergency Closings Collection on PBS LearningMedia – a special collection of resources organized by grade and subject area, including videos, lesson plans and activities that support learning at home. Featured lessons plans contain full contextualization for the media they include. Lessons can be planned and adapted using the Lesson Builder tool, Google Classroom, Remind, and other tools. For early educators, PBS has assembled packets of printable activities to download and share with parents and students. • Professional learning webinars for PreK-12 educators including tips and techniques to support distance instruction. • An education resources page for COVID distance learning solutions for stations on the HUB (login required). Includes links to the California Learn-at-Home project, other station examples, press clips, the full list of programs used by the California initiative, and a link for stations to request a waiver for the National Program Service programming requirement. • Customizable PBS LearningMedia Distance Learning One-Sheet . and a PBSLM toolkit including a print ad, one sheet and digital assets. • A social media calendar with links and resources to promos and other digital content • A Spanish-language Collection on PBS LearningMedia is under development with input from local stations. These special resources supplement the regular free resources offered by PBS to support families and caregivers, including • The PBS KIDS 24/7 channel offering anytime access to trusted educational series for kids ages 2-8. • The PBS KIDS Video app for mobile, tablet and connected TV devices, offering on- demand educational videos and a livestream of the PBS KIDS 24/7 channel. • The PBS KIDS Games app with nearly 200 educational games. • PBS KIDS for Parents – a resource that offers information, activities and tips for parents to make it easier to continue learning at home.

SESAME WORKSHOP • Sesame Workshop launched a variety of free resources to help children and families during the coronavirus pandemic. The Caring for Each Other initiative features resources designed to help parents provide comfort and manage anxiety, as well as help with creating routines, fostering playful learning at home and staying physically and mentally healthy. The site will be regularly updated to meet the needs of families as the situation evolves.

Wavelength from WNET • Wavelength, public media’s content sharing platform from WNET, is offering a playlist of coronavirus content from public media stations around the country, as well as links to the California At Home Learning materials (educational bumpers, wraps and interstitials in both English and Spanish).

Alabama • Alabama PBS links to the educational media resources collection on PBS LearningMedia compiled by PBS. APT is creating broadcast schedules designed to enhance learning along with interstitial messages that point to broadcast and online resources. The station is working to curate libraries of online resources targeting specific subject areas and grade levels.

Alaska • KBRW-AM/FM in Utqiagvik (Barrow) has partnered with their local school district to provide audio based educational programming. The radio station serves everyone in the school district. Many of homes do not have internet so online or digital schooling is not a reasonable alternative

Arizona • Arizona PBS/Phoenix and Arizona Public Media/Tucson are joining together to create a statewide At-Home Learning platform based on the California version.

California • California public television stations, including PBS SoCal, KCET and KLCS in Los Angeles, and KQED in San Francisco, in partnership with the Los Angeles Unified School District, launched At-Home Learning – A California Public Education Partnership. This partnership offers broadcasting programming and accompanying digital resources that adhere to California’s state curriculum to provide continued at-home learning. Additionally, the stations are offering educational bumpers, wraps and interstitials available to PBS stations nationally in English and Spanish to complement their own at home learning programs. This material is available now on Wavelength. • KQED and PBS SoCal are also collaborating on a bilingual resource with curated PBS LearningMedia videos available in Spanish and English for grades K-5. • KPBS, San Diego has adapted the At-Home Learning site for local use in partnership with the San Diego County Office of Education and the San Diego Unified School District, and has adapted a print ad for local use based on one originally created by WHYY, Philadelphia.

Florida • Florida PBS stations will begin airing a weekday schedule of education programs aligned to state standards. • WUCF, Orlando, creators of Meet the Helpers, have created two new videos (that other stations can co-brand) on how to talk to kids about the coronavirus. Future Meet the Helpers videos will focus on social distancing, how epidemiologists help, and others. A Meet the Helpers collection is also available on PBS LearningMedia.

Georgia • Georgia Public Broadcasting has created Georgia Home Classroom in partnership with the Georgia Department of Education to offer broadcast programming and accompanying digital resources that adhere to Georgia’s state standards to provide continued at-home learning. Students in Pre-K through 12th grade have access to free, educational public media programming designated for each grade level weekdays ln GPB-TV. Programs are also available to stream on gpb.org or the free PBS Video App and PBS KIDS App. In addition to the broadcast schedule, Georgia students and educators can access an online library of free educational resources from GPB Education, PBS LearningMedia and other sources, including videos, activities and associated lesson plans for teachers.

Iowa • Iowa PBS has created a Virtual Learning Camp – a Facebook event for four weeks of guided online learning in math and reading for kids 5-8, in addition to compiling resources on healthy habits and feeling safe.

Kentucky • Kentucky Educational Television provides curated resources for early childhood, K-12, and adult education, along with links to PBS LearningMedia resources to support distance learning, and links to CPB-supported KET-produced adult education programs, Fast Forward (high school equivalency) and Workplace Essential Skills.

Louisiana • Louisiana Public Broadcasting, in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Education, and in collaboration with PBS stations nationwide has launched a Learning at Home site to provide teachers, parents, caregivers and students with resources to continue learning at home. The site includes Louisiana History resources, PBS KIDS resources for kids ages 2-8, PBS Digital Studios resources and many more.

Massachusetts • WGBH/Boston and WGBY/Springfield are partnering with the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education to provide distance learning via broadcast and digital platforms for grades preK-12. Content will air on the WORLD Channel from noon-5 pm. • WGBH is also compiling a document listing the Spanish language resources available in the NASA Bringing the Universe to America’s Classrooms collection – all resources are designed with English Learners in mind

Michigan • Detroit Public TV is working with community educators across the state to provide free educational programming and associated digital resources that adhere to Michigan’s state curriculum to facilitate at-home learning across all grade levels. Resources include a daily newsletter, distance learning resources for teachers, and other.

Missouri • Nine Network in St. Louis created an Educator and Caregiver Toolkit based on needs expressed by area superintendents to ensure that grade pre K-4 educators, learners and parents have the needed resources to ensure continued quality instruction and learning.

Montana • Montana PBS compiled a list of virtual and professional development assets for educators, as well as a list of educational resources for all grade levels.

Nevada • Vegas PBS is adapting its Reach online instructional resources for a potential extended home schooling experience, combining all links and information for elementary, middle and high school curricula for ease of use by parents, teachers and students. The service will be made available statewide for free.

New York. • Buffalo Toronto Public Media (WNED) will begin broadcasting a “Learn at Home” schedule weekdays from 6 am through 6 pm on WNED PBS KIDS. Videos and activities for teachers and families will be posted on their website, social media platforms and on PBS LearningMedia. The station will also continue to post daily learning resources in their WNED PBS Parents & Teachers Group on Facebook. The broadcast programming and accompanying digital resources adhere to New York’s state curriculum to provide continued at home learning.

• WNET/New York is creating and sharing multiple resources for local use and for other stations to use, including: o A PreK-12 collection of digital learning resources for remote learning in conjunction with PBS LearningMedia. o Co-brandable versions of WNET’s elementary and secondary viewing guides – Tips for Enhancing TV Learning Experiences (elementary) and Taking TV Time to the Next Level: A PBS Viewing Guide for 7th-12th graders (secondary.) o Parenting Minutes, available on WNET’s YouTube channel in multiple languages including English, Spanish, Mandarin and Bengali. WNET shared YouTube links with other stations for use on local station websites. Parenting Minutes are short videos on key topics related to early childhood learning and raising children, including several that are applicable for the current situation with coronavirus concerns. o Cyberchase-at-Home resources in Spanish and English, on PBSLearningMedia. • WXXI/Rochester - WXXI is broadcasting a grade level “Learn at Home” schedule from 6 am to 6 pm weekdays. WXXI Education has curated and created resources, virtual events and hands on activities in support of educators, students and families posted on their website, in social media and in e-newsletters. • WCNY/Syracuse is partnering with local school districts and arts organizations to ensure the continuation of learning, music and art. The station is working with local school districts to produce special educational broadcastings on WCNY-TV in order to provide continued learning opportunities for students of all ages at home.

Ohio • Ohio public television stations have collaborated to produce an Online Teaching and Learning channel on YouTube.

Oklahoma • OETA is working with the State Department of Education to provide PBS LearningMedia and other distance learning resources to educators and parents statewide, together with information on the coronavirus and steps to mitigate infection.

Pennsylvania • WHYY, Philadelphia is working the with the School District of Philadelphia on a broadcast schedule to be shown on one of the station’s secondary channels from 9-3 pm weekdays – 2 hours of grades 3-5, 2 hours of 6-8 and 2 hours of 9-12. WHYY shared sample schedules and promotional material for other stations to use that links back to PBS LearningMedia pages. • WQED, Pittsburgh has curated content and resources for at-home learning on their education website.

South Carolina. • South Carolina ETV, in partnership with the S.C. Department of Education will offer broadcast, curriculum-based programming for the state’s pre-K through 12th grade students. The content will align with current state and federal standards so that programming is flexible enough to serve as both supplemental and fundamental, based on timing and need. SCETV will modify regularly scheduled programming three days each week to offer specific pre-K-12 resources between the hours of 8 am and 6 pm. Educators and parents will have access to supplemental lesson plans and curriculum materials. Additionally, SCETV will provide virtual professional development opportunities for educators to help them learn more about the free educational resources and broadcasting programming available.

Texas • KERA, Dallas has created a page on their website with curated educational resources for North Texas families for learning at home.

Virginia • WETA in Arlington, VA has assembled a “Stuck at Home Survival Guide” for parents and caregivers home with their house-bound children. The guide includes a variety of resources focusing on online educational options and parenting advice. • WHRO in Norfolk has established a free Digital Learning Courses website with links to all of the station’s high school online courses for the 21 school divisions that own WHRO. The links can be used with or without an available learning management system.