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Ho n o r i n g Vi s i o n . In n o v a t i o n . Ac t i o n a n d Transformation . Cable in the Classroom and The National Cable & Telecommunications Association present the 5th Annual Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards Ceremony

Honoring leaders who are making a significant impact in the education of America’s youth.

We d n e s d a y , Ju n e 10, 2009 a t Th e Wa s h i n g t o n Co u r t Ho t e l

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Reception: 12:00 p.m., Atrium Foyer Ceremony Luncheon: 12:30 p.m., Atrium Ballroom Master of Ceremonies, Alton Brown, Food Network Chef In t r o d u c t i o n

able’s Leaders in Learning Awards is an initiative Working in partnership with, and on behalf of, the cable of the cable industry and its national education industry, Cable in the Classroom advocates the visionary, foundation, Cable in the Classroom. sensible and effective use of media in homes, schools and C communities and supports the complimentary provision Mission by cable industry companies of multichannel video The mission of Cable in the Classroom is to foster the use services, broadband services, and educational content to 2 of cable content and technology to expand and enhance the nation’s schools. learning for children and youth nationwide.

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oday, the cable industry honors individuals who are We gather for this awards ceremony firm in the belief at the forefront of innovation in education, including that education is one of the most important investments many individuals who are creatively using cable the cable industry can make in the communities it serves. Ttechnology and content to expand and enhance learning. Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards honor the distinguished educators, administrators, community leaders and Young people – immersed in technology and media – policymakers who bring a pioneering spirit to education. benefit from a broad array of educational resources both in We commend these honorees for the difference they make in and outside of the classroom. With passion, commitment, their communities and the lives of their students. and abiding hope, the leaders to whom we pay tribute go far beyond traditional approaches to preparing the next This year’s Leaders in Learning Award winners inspire better generation of students for life, work, and citizenship in the learning and more success in classrooms and communities 21st century. across the country. Please join us in honoring their achievements! 3 In 1989, the cable industry made a substantial commitment to support education by creating Cable in the Classroom, a Abbe Raven national education foundation. With annual contributions Chair, Cable in the Classroom Advisory Board to education valued at over $125 million, the industry President & CEO provides cable connections to tens of thousands of schools A&E Television Networks nationwide, as well as hundreds of hours per month of Kyle McSlarrow high-quality, commercial-free, educational television President & CEO programming. Today cable also offers to schools and families National Cable & Telecommunications across the country, broadband access, interactive online Association content, media literacy information, and tools and education for Internet safety.

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Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards understand, analyze, evaluate, and create media messages on television, the internet and other outlets. Since 1989, the cable industry has maintained its unprecedented commitment to supporting education in Cable Partnerships for Learning communities nationwide. Awards given to leaders who are working in partnership with the cable industry to expand and enhance learning Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards launched in 2004 to opportunities for children and youth in or out of the honor outstanding leaders for their vision, innovation, classroom. action, and transformation of learning in schools and communities across the country. General Excellence Awards given to leaders who have demonstrated excellence With an emphasis on effective uses of cable industry in expanding and enhancing learning opportunities by content and technology for learning, this national 4 employing a diversity of traditional and non-traditional awards program is designed to recognize educators, approaches to producing measurable improvements in administrators, policymakers and other community leaders education outcomes in formal or informal settings. who have demonstrated vision and leadership. Awards are presented in the following categories: Policymaker Excellence Awards given to officials whose Media Literacy Education exceptional vision and action has Award given in partnership with National PTA to a leader dramatically enriched learning who has advanced the teaching and learning of media for children at a local, state or literacy concepts and skills to children and youth. national level. Media literacy is defined as the ability to access,

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Media Literacy Education Award

Dr. Lynda Bergsma’s media literacy work began in 1991 with a 3-year, Lynda Bergsma Center for Substance Abuse Prevention (CSAP) Substance Abuse and Assistant Professor Media (SAM) Project. She learned about media literacy education as University of Arizona, Mel & Enid a promising drug abuse prevention strategy, and quickly realized that Zuckerman College of Public Health it was what she had been looking for to enhance the effectiveness of Tucson, AZ her health promotion efforts. Seventeen years later, an assistant Cable System: Cox Communications professor at the University of Arizona Mel & Enid Zuckerman College of Public Health, and founder and director of the Media Wise Initiative, she continues to provide media literacy education as A nationally recognized author and speaker, she is a founding board a health promotion strategy for children, youth and families. Her member and immediate past president of the National Association work includes planning and for Media Literacy Education implementing programs, “Everyone needs media literacy skills with which they can (formerly the Alliance for a 5 developing curricula, providing thoughtfully and safely navigate the millions of media messages Media Literate America). She training and consulting coming to us every day, especially the many mixed messages about has a BHSC in nutrition, a Masters Degree in health services, and conducting health topics.” research on the impact of our education and a PhD in higher media culture on public health, health-promoting media literacy education and sociology from the University of Arizona. education and media literacy as an essential component of health literacy in a digital age. In 2008 Dr. Bergsma received a National Association for Media Literacy Education Appreciation Award, and in 2006 the Andrew W. In addition to her academic duties, Dr. Bergsma has been Principal Nichols Award for distinguished rural and border health service from Investigator on several health-promoting media literacy education the National Organization of State Offices of Rural Health. projects, including her recent Media Wise Families pilot research project to explore the efficacy of a family media literacy education program focused on preventing tobacco and alcohol use/abuse.

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Media Literacy Education Award

Elana Yonah Rosen Just Think has become one of the few organizations in the country Founder and Executive Director delivering on-the-ground programs and curriculum while performing Just Think Foundation rigorous academic studies in the media literacy education field. Rosen San Francisco, CA has been instrumental in Just Think, reaching over 7,500 students, Cable System: teachers, parents and others through direct programs, more than 35,000 individuals through screenings, exhibits, fairs, and other community events, and an additional 4 million lives through unique A self-described “hope-aholic,” Elana Yonah Rosen co-founded Just media touches. Think, a nonprofit media literacy education organization, in 1995 to bring to all young people from diverse communities the essential skills Rosen’s belief that the core principles of media literacy education 6 for healthy, responsible, independent lives in the 21st century. She’s should be scaled was the impetus behind a merger of Just Think with used media as the cornerstone One Economy Corporation, of these efforts by teaching “The importance of media in teaching and learning is paramount. a growing global nonprofit critical thinking skills and Knowledge is increasingly the most valuable commodity in the world, organization that uses creative productions tools so and rich, relevant media will be the most powerful way to ensure innovative approaches students can understand and that young people have profound experiences as they become active improving quality of life analyze media messages of all participants in their life-long learning environments.” through access to quality media types. With these skills, young information to low-income people produce their own media messages about issues that concern people. With this merger, Rosen is integrating 21st century skills and them, such as First Amendment rights, body image/nutrition, global knowledge into the U.S. and internationally based Digital Connectors warming, immigration, depression and suicide. In addition, they curricula, and launching the Public Internet Channel, a new online take on community leadership opportunities, and most importantly, network for public purpose (www.pic.tv). improve their lives.

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Cable Partnerships for Learning Award

Jacalyn Leavitt’s commitment to education began as an elementary Jacalyn S. Leavitt school teacher and continued through her tenure as First Lady of Founder and Chair Utah, where improving the health and literacy rates of children Internet Keep Safe Coalition were trademarks of her public service. In 2005, when her husband, (iKeepSafe) Governor Mike Leavitt, was asked to join the President’s Cabinet and Arlington, VA the family moved to Washington D.C., Leavitt founded the Internet Keep Safe Coalition (iKeepSafe). iKeepSafe is a broad partnership of Cable System: Comcast governors, first spouses, attorneys general and law enforcement, public health, education and industry leaders dedicated to helping children Comcast is also sponsoring the development and production of learn the safe and healthy use of technology and the Internet. iKeepSafe’s widely popular Faux Paw the Techno Cat Internet Safety series of children’s books, animated DVDs, and educator curriculum that teaches basic principles iKeepSafe’s important “There are many ways to continue to incorporate technology into the 7 partnership with Comcast has and skills of Internet safety classroom: talk with other teachers at school and at state education helped facilitate an array of to children. All products programs, including a three- conventions. Visit with a school’s technology teacher, the school and initiatives work towards state Initiative (Michigan, district’s technology office, and check out what classes, in-service or iKeepSafe’s shared goal: Washington, Virginia) to professional instruction might be offered. Visit stores that sell digital helping kids and teens become develop a multi-faceted products and talk with friends and neighbors who ‘know technology.’” responsible, ethical and children’s Internet safety resilient cyber citizens. campaign. In each state, iKeepSafe and Comcast worked with the state attorney general to focus their specific content priorities. Leavitt holds a degree in secondary education with an elementary iKeepSafe and Comcast have also developed various public health endorsement from Utah State University. She was a 27-year PTA campaigns and created programming on cyber-bullying and other member. Internet issues for Comcast’s award-winning “Student Voices” show.

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Cable Partnerships for Learning Award

Ray Lund As a result of a long-time partnership with Time Warner Cable, the Teacher studio (modeled after Time Warner’s own studios), was not only Thorton Academy able to be built, but students are able to completely run their own Saco, ME television station, Thorton Academy Television (TATV). They have Cable System: Time Warner Cable developed long-running shows and have made their TV station an important thread in the community.

When Ray Lund’s teaching career began, he taught the traditional Lund has expanded his work at Thorton Academy to include new arts such as drawing, painting and pottery. In 1987, he introduced media workshops and programs for the entire community. He has a course called “videography” received a Disney American “The learner of today will have to become a multifaceted and 8 with the reasoning that this was Teacher Award for Outstanding the new art medium for skill multitasking worker of tomorrow, using ever evolving technologies for National Visual Arts Educator, development. Thirty-seven communication, creativity, problem solving, information gathering, Technology Teacher of the Year years later, he now teaches a synthesis of ideas and processes, along with delivering professional and Art Teacher of the Year. He new media class in a space conduct. It is important that all our students have learning is currently working towards an called the 4-D Arena, a studio opportunities that will prepare them to make positive decisions for MFA in Computer Arts/New designed specifically for time- society as a whole.” Media from the Academy of based arts. Art University.

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Cable Partnerships for Learning Award

What started as an idea for a summer camp to teach elementary students about gardening turned into a reality television show that Gary Olsen follows the fortunes, successes and mishaps experienced by students District Administrator trying to grow their own food. District Administrator, Gary Olsen, Dubuque Community Schools created The Garden Organic, a show developed in Dubuque, IA partnerships with Mediacom Cable, Hy-Vee Foods, Steve’s Ace Home Cable System: Mediacom & Garden Center and the Iowa State University Extension Office. The show combines science, math, culture and the history of food along with basic food how-to’s: growing, harvesting, preparing and Olsen received the National School Public Relations Association preserving. Students are taped as they set out on their challenge to (NSPRA) Award of Excellence for a documentary he made after 9/11 grow an organic garden with and a Beacon Award for the no artificial or non-organic “Cable television, coupled with the Internet, provide the foundation school’s cooking program, 9 pesticides, fertilizers or for the ‘Classroom of the Future.’ It’s a classroom without walls or Kids in the Kitchen. That herbicides. The series, now in desks. It is a virtual learning space in which the participants not program also won Best Series from the Association of Cable its fourth year, is cablecast on only view interesting people, places and content, but share their own Communicators in 2007. Dubuque Community Schools’ experiences and educational resources.” own full-time 24/7 cable channel provided by Mediacom Cable.

The show is very popular in the Dubuque community. Enthusiastic visitors come to the garden to observe production, parents help to encourage their kids during taping and garden hobbyists e-mail questions and suggested topics they think The Garden Organic should cover.

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General Excellence Award

desire to give students access to information outside of the classroom, Tony Alteparmakian prompted him to devise a way to make notes available to students at Foothill High School any time. Bakersfield, CA Cable System: Bright House The result is Alteparmakian’s innovative method of documenting Networks classroom lectures. He uses audio and visual devices that record his pen strokes and speech as a video. He then adds class notes, pictures and videos from cable programming and uploads all of it to YouTube During Tony Alteparmakian’s early years in the classroom, dry erase for students to access at their convenience. Additionally, he created markers, a whiteboard and some scientific calculators marked the message boards on his website and quickly realized that many students extent to which he intertwined who normally wouldn’t “Cable networks have a wealth of interesting, high-quality programs 10 technology into his lesson participate in classroom plans. Approximately three that engage students and help them develop their own questions by discussions were posting and years ago, during his seventh gaining their attention and interest. Utilizing cable programming responding to comments on year as a classroom teacher, he helps teachers and students in a multitude of ways. Collaboration the web. purchased a tablet computer to with other teachers, parents and students can create a dynamic use in place of the whiteboard. curriculum that includes web-based content such as online videos via Alteparmakian recently won In the beginning, his text- YouTube or other websites.” a 2009 Best Buy National filled slideshows served as a Teacher Award. He is a detriment, rather than a benefit. Students still seemed disengaged member of the California Teacher’s Association (CTA), National from the content. It was only after his encounter with a picture of Education and Association (NEA) and the National Council of his school’s parabolic-shaped gymnasium that he realized the impact Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM). picture and video could have on the students. This, along with his

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General Excellence Award

After attending Columbia University’s graduate school, where he earned a master’s degree in public administration and social work, Joe Joe Hall Hall worked for a settlement house and a community development Founder and President organization in the South Bronx. In 1999, Hall entered the The Ghetto Film School University of Southern California to pursue filmmaking, in order to Bronx, NY expand the reach of his community development work. While there, Cable System: Cablevision he realized that the expense and elite nature of traditional filmmaking shut many out of even considering creative storytelling as a career, especially the kind of talented young people he knew in The Bronx. The Cinema School, developed by GFS over the last several years, will open as the nation’s first film high school. Hall founded The Ghetto Film School (GFS) in the summer “The GFS Fellows Program employs a highly effective learning model Hall is the recipient of several 11 of 2000, to connect local in which the film and media literacy taught in the classroom is also awards, including the 2005 students to the film and media experienced first-hand by every student participant as they write, Mayor’s Award for Arts and industries – providing them shoot, edit, and screen their own narrative stories. By emphasizing Culture (alongside Wynton Marsalis and Poet Laureate with the technology, resources, clarity, originality, and production value in all student work, Billy Collins), and his work relationships and training they GFS drives students to invest a great deal of energy, thought and need to make outstanding has been featured in a range of determination in their creative work. The results can be measured film, video and multimedia media including The New York projects. Currently, more both in their films and in their long-term success: students who Times, Huffington Post, NPR, than 400 students have complete the Fellows Program have a 100% high school graduation PBS, and the BBC. Currently participated in GFS programs rate, and in 2007, 80% of our Fellows enrolled in college.” he is finishing a documentary and workshops, coming from for the Sundance Channel and all areas of New York City to the South Bronx training facilities for working on a book about the GFS educational model and history. hands-on production and cinema studies courses. In September 2009

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General Excellence Award

students in the school as well as community members to produce, Jay Hoffman edit and broadcast their stories. Most recently the SBNN News team Teacher collaborated with teenluresprevention.com to help in their efforts Frederick H. Tuttle Middle School to prevent teens from being victimized by sexual predators through South Burlington, Vermont informative broadcasts. In March, the Korean Government Education Cable System: Comcast Film Crew traveled to South Burlington to produce a documentary on SBNN’s work with teenluresprevention.com.

With a Bachelor’s degree in Technology Education and an Advanced SBNN has become a staple in the community. Students are sought degree in Public School Administration, Jay Hoffman recognized the after conference speakers and have keynoted at such places as The need to incorporate the arts New England League of “Do not wait until you master the technology before you incorporate 12 and technology across curricula Middle Schools, Vermont at Tuttle Middle School. So it into the classroom! Find a tech savvy student and let them run. School Board Association he and the school’s music Have them teach you as you try to navigate in this wild technology Conference and the Vermont teacher teamed up and secured race. The more stakeholders you include in your plan, the greater Superintendent Conference. grant money they used to your odds of long-lasting success will be.” They’ve been featured in create a news broadcast studio, Leadership Magazine and equip every classroom with televisions, and upgrade the school’s placed 1st in the eSchoolnews Middle School Video Competition in cable infrastructure. Not long after, in February 2003, the South 2008. Most recently they placed 3rd and 4th In C-SPAN’s National Burlington Network News (SBNN) debuted on their local school 2009 StudentCam video competition. Hoffman has been twice named Network. the Vermont Technology Education Association Teacher of the Year.

Since then, the program has continued to grow and experience great success. Each year, a group of students apply and 12 are selected to participate in SBNN. The team works extensively with other

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General Excellence Award

Craig Lindvahl and Joe Fatheree wanted to celebrate the work and dedication of students in multimedia classes at Effingham and Craig Lindvahl and Joe Fatheree Teutopolis high schools. Students produced not only high-quality Filmmakers and Teachers films, but also learned to work together and collaborate, offering Effingham High School advice and input to each other on a wide range of technical and Effingham, IL creative matters. In 2003, the filmmakers and teachers created the Cable System: Mediacom AHA Film Festival. From a crowd of 150 the first year, the festival has grown into an event that sells out a 1,500 seat theater in Effingham and includes seminars hosted by industry professionals from Los Craig Lindvahl is the recipient of 12 Mid-America Emmy awards for Angeles, Chicago and St. Louis. Members of the multimedia class producing, writing, camera work and composing. He received the work the entire school year to Milken National Educator “Students instinctively move toward technology in their pursuit of plan and prepare for the festival Award and was also awarded 13 and all proceeds fund much knowledge. Technology has now permeated every aspect of student life the Studs Terkel Award of the expense of the class and outside school, and the judicious use of technology in the classroom for contributions to the provide operating capital for not only connects students to learning in ways they understand, it also humanities. the next year’s festival. assists them in the management of technology. Through the use of technology, students can learn to evaluate information, use technology In February, Joe Fatheree In addition to the annual film in appropriate and effective ways and develop the critical thinking received the NEA’s National fest, Effingham and Teutopolis skills that will help them make the best possible use of technology.” Award for Teaching Excellence. multimedia students have In 2007, he was named the been invited to attend prestigious film festivals such as the Telluride Illinois Teacher of the Year. As a filmmaker, he is the recipient of three Film Festival in Colorado, created short films featured in the Chicago Mid-America Emmy awards for producing and writing. International Children’s Film Festival and collaborated with students in South Central Los Angeles to produce a film showcased at a United Nations conference in Paris.

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General Excellence Award

community. Philippi has led implementations of one-to-one mobile Kristy Philippi computing; total project-based learning curricula and 21st Century Founding Principal skills criteria (content, critical thinking, collaboration, effective Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology communication, tech literacy). As one of nine New Technology Regional Academy Foundation (NTF) schools in 2004, Taylor Academy has become a Jefferson Parish & New Orleans Region model of success, and there are now more than 40 New Tech Schools Cable System: Cox Communications in nine states. Believing students, especially those from high-poverty families, need Philippi empowers teachers to challenge traditional expectations and more than just participative learning opportunities, Kristy Philippi rules to push education with projects that improve the community. helped found the STEM-focused (Science, Technology, Engineering Taylor Academy staff engages the student body using content from traditional and online media sources including wikis, podcasts 14 and Math) Patrick F. Taylor Science & Technology Regional Academy in 2004 with the hope to “Engage students with real world projects and applications. Give and blogs. Taylor has a provide students with 21st strong relationship with them the freedom and choice in how they demonstrate their Century skills as well as college Cox Communications and and workforce preparation. knowledge by letting the students lead the way with the technology. benefits from them providing She invited career professionals, Do not force them to “power down” when they come to school, instead educational programming, st parents and community teach them the way they learn best by using 21 Century tools. Teach professional development members to participate in the students to work collaboratively, convey their thoughts in writing opportunities, advertising academy and be available to the using websites, blogs and other Web 2.0 tools, and have them present and connections with local students by creating plans that their work to members of the community.” businesses. engage and encourage students to achieve daily success. Taylor Academy was the recipient of NTF School of Excellence Award in 2007 and Philippi was honored with local, regional and state Since its inception, Taylor Academy, a public magnet school for awards for leadership in innovative education practices in 2006, 2007 grades 6-12, has grown into an important part of the Jefferson Parish and 2008.

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Federal Policymaker Excellence Award

On November 16th, 2006, the House Democratic Caucus unanimously elected Congressman James E. Clyburn of South Carolina Majority Whip, a position he continues to hold in the 111th Congress. Jim Clyburn is the first South Carolinian and the second African American to ascend to the third The Honorable James E. Clyburn ranking position in the U.S. House of Representatives. House Majority Whip

It took a long road and 66 years for him to reach this position. He was elected president of his NAACP youth chapter when he was 12 years old. He was a student leader at South Carolina State College and was active in the civil rights movement. He participated in many marches and demonstrations “unashamed advocate of his constituents” by Columbia’s The State, and called and was chosen as the star witness in a 1960 Orangeburg civil disobedience the “Carolina Kingmaker” by the National Journal. case defended by the legendary Matthew Perry. That case developed from Majority Whip Clyburn has actively advocated for better educational the arrest of 388 college students — two of whom were Jim and Emily opportunities for all of our nation’s children. Although most history books England of Moncks Corner, South 15 “Education is the great equalizer. As a former public school teacher cite Brown v. Board of Education Carolina, whom he met during of Topeka, Kansas as the litigation that incarceration. He was later I’ve seen first-hand the exponential benefits of investment in that ended school segregation, a jailed during a 1961 march on the education—to the students, their communities and the country. little-known case from Clarendon South Carolina State Capitol that Education is the key to continued prosperity in America.” County, South Carolina actually resulted in the landmark breach of spearheaded the civil rights the peace case Edwards v. South Carolina. movement. In the 1954 Briggs v. Elliott unanimous decision, the U.S. In 1992, Jim Clyburn became the first black South Carolinian elected to Supreme Court put segregationists on the defensive and the law on the side of Congress since 1897. He was sworn in as a Member of the United States those who wanted to make the guarantee of equal treatment in the Fourteenth House of Representatives from South Carolina’s Sixth Congressional District Amendment a reality. Clyburn authored Uncommon Courage: The Story of in January 1993. Clyburn became an appropriator and Congressional Black Briggs V. Elliott, South Carolina’s Unsung Civil Rights Battle to tell this story. Caucus Chairman in 1999. Four years later, he became Vice Chairman of the Democratic Caucus, then Chairman in 2006. He has been praised as an

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Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security related legislation. As former Chair, and now Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Small Business and Entrepreneurship, Senator Snowe is working on behalf of entrepreneurs The Honorable Olympia J. Snowe nationwide. In addition, Senator Snowe is a senior member of the Senate United States Senator Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation, where she is former Chair and now Ranking Member of its Subcommittee on Oceans, Atmosphere, Fisheries and the Coast Guard. She also sits on the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. With her election in 1994, Olympia J. Snowe became only the second woman Focusing her attention on efforts to build bipartisan consensus on key issues Senator in history to represent Maine. In November 2006, she was re-elected that matter to Maine and America, Senator Snowe’s dedicated work in the to a third six-year term in the United States Senate with 74 percent of the U.S. Senate has garnered her nationwide recognition as a leading policymaker vote. in Washington. In 2005, she was named the 54th most powerful woman in 16 the world by Forbes magazine and in 2006 Time Magazine named her one of Before her election to the Senate, Olympia Snowe represented Maine’s Second the top ten U.S. Senators, “Because of her centrist views and eagerness to get Congressional District in the U.S. House of Representatives for sixteen years. beyond partisan point scoring, Maine Republican Olympia Snowe is in the Senator Snowe is only the fourth woman in history to be elected to both center of every policy debate in Washington.” houses of Congress and the first woman in American history to serve in both houses of a state legislature and both houses of Congress. When first elected Senator Snowe has worked extensively on important issues, such as budget to Congress in 1978, at the age of 31, Olympia Snowe was the youngest and fiscal responsibility; national security; women’s issues; health care; welfare Republican woman, and the first Greek-American woman, ever elected to reform; oceans and fisheries issues; and campaign finance reform. She is an Congress. She has won more federal elections in Maine than any other person advocate for improving education in Maine and around the country and since World War II. has worked at length on issues including student financial aid, co-authoring the e-rate program – which the publication Technology and Learning ranked In 2001, Senator Snowe became the first Republican woman ever to secure a fourth in a list of Top 25 Innovations and Initiatives that have helped shape full-term seat on the Senate Finance Committee, and only the third woman education technology over the past generation – and bringing broadband to in history to join the panel. With jurisdiction over two thirds of the entire our nation’s schools. federal budget, the Committee is considered one of the most powerful in Congress because its members author tax, trade, health care, welfare,

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Alton Brown’s flair in the kitchen developed early with guidance from his mother and grandmother, a budding culinary talent he skillfully used later “as a way to get dates” in college. Switching gears as an Alton Brown adult, Alton spent a decade working as a cinematographer and video director, but realized he spent all his time between shoots watching Food Network Chef cooking shows which he found to be dull and uninformative. Convinced that he could do better, Alton left the film business and moved to Vermont to train at the New England Culinary Institute in Montpelier, VT. Soon after, Alton tapped all of his training to create “hardware” you need in the kitchen. Packed with practical advice and Good Eats, a smart and entertaining food show that blends wit with tips, this book takes a look at what’s needed and what isn’t, what works wisdom, history with pop culture and science with common cooking and what doesn’t. sense. Alton not only writes and produces the shows but also stars in Alton’s third book, on baking, I’m Just Here for More Food, hit 17 each offbeat episode. bookstores in November 2004 and has since gone on to become a Alton Brown’s first book, I’m Just Here for the Food (Stewart, Tabori New York Times bestseller. & Chang, 2002) won the James Beard Foundation Award for Best On Feasting On Asphalt, Alton had only his motorcycle, a few buddies Cookbook in the Reference category, was one of the bestselling and the clothes on his back during a nostalgic trip across the country cookbooks of 2002 and has sold over 300,000 copies to date. It was to rediscover the disappearing people, places and stories of great also chosen by Amazon.com as one of the top 50 books of 2002 by American road food. In 2008, Alton traveled the Caribbean in search both editors and readers. of America’s culinary roots and Caribbean flavors in Feasting On Alton Brown’s Gear for Your Kitchen, his long-awaited homage to tools Waves. and gadgetry, was published by STC in September 2003 and was For more information on Alton Brown, nominated for both a James Beard Award for Best Cookbook in the visit www.altonbrown.com. Tools & Techniques category and an IACP Cookbook Award in the Food Reference/Technical category. Gear is an essential guide to all the

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able in the Classroom *Gary Olsen — Dubuque, IA Michael Bechtel — La Crosse, WI Roy Lander — Atlanta, GA is proud to honor the Mediacom Charter Comcast finalists for Cable’s Leaders Erin Porter — Newport News, VA Jonathan Bergmann and Aaron Sams — Brian Lee and Jill Smith — Cincinnati, OH Cin Learning Awards, listed with Cox Communications Woodland Park, CO Time Warner Cable US Cable their cable system below, and we Isaac Thompson — Nashville, TN *Craig Lindvahl and Joe Fatheree — Effingham, IL thank them for their hard work and Comcast Ronald Blanchard — Lake Charles, LA Mediacom Suddenlink leadership in educating children. Eliot Waxman — Vienna, VA Cheryl Lykowski — Lambertville, MI Cox Communications David Brock — Baltimore, MD Buckeye CableSystem Cable Partnerships for Learning Comcast Media Literacy Education Joel Aquino — Oakwood, GA Charlotte Groty and Lynn Kollar — Moreno Valley, CA Charter *Dr. Lynda Bergsma — Tucson, AZ James Brooks — Millers Creek, NC Time Warner Cable Cox Communications Charter Eva Belliston — Sandy, UT Havena Marks and Amanda Nobles — San Diego, CA Comcast Rick Hengsterman — Ballston Spa, NY Lester Claravall — Oklahoma City, OK Time Warner Cable Time Warner Cable Cox Communications Shirley Boyd — Temple, TX Sonia Noyola, Danny Noyola, Sr. and Time Warner Cable Karen Kliegman — Albertson, NY Christopher Craft — Columbia, SC Daniel Noyola, Jr. — Corpus Christi, TX 18 Cablevision Time Warner Cable Time Warner Cable Leslie Flores — Midway City, CA Time Warner Cable George Mayo — Silver Spring, MD Mary Jean Erschen — Lodi, WI *Kristy Philippi — Jefferson, LA Comcast Charter Cox Communications Rachael Foster — Fort Smith, AR Cox Communications Alan Michel — Jamaica Plain, MA *Joe Hall — Bronx, NY Dr. Franklin Watson — Pembroke Pines, FL Comcast Cablevision Comcast Debra Porter and Karen Horsting — Lakeland, FL Mary Morrison — Garden City, MI Richard Hernandez — Niceville, FL Mary Widen and Jacqueline Pollman — Bright House Networks Comcast Cox Communications Milwaukee, WI Time Warner Cable Paul LaRue — Washington Court House, OH *Elana Rosen — San Francisco, CA Jim Heston — Waco, TX Time Warner Cable Comcast Time Warner Cable Dr. Kathleen Williams — Des Plaines, IL Comcast General Excellence *Jacalyn Leavitt — Arlington, VA *Jay Hoffman — South Burlington, VT Comcast *Tony Alteparmakian — Bakersfield, CA Comcast Brandi Wright — Philadelphia, PA Bright House Networks Comcast *Ray Lund — Saco, ME Kyle Hughes — Clarkston, MI Time Warner Cable Jamie Aquino — Leesburg, FL Comcast *Indicates winner Comcast

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he following programming networks and cable to School Day™, The Recovery Project™ and the Biography companies are outstanding supporters of Cable in the Project for Schools™ are designed to make lasting contributions Classroom’s educational initiatives, and are generous on national, state, and local levels. AETN also provides hour Tsponsors of the 2009 Cable’s Leaders in Learning Awards: long commercial-free and copyright cleared programming for educators, and publishes a biannual magazine The Idea Book Go l d Le v e l Sp o n s o r s for Educators, which is available to teachers nationwide free of charge. AETN A&E Television Networks is an Bright House Networks award-winning, global media content Bright House Networks is company offering consumers a diverse committed to supporting, communications environment ranging from television enhancing, recognizing and rewarding quality education networks to websites, to home videos/DVDs to gaming and initiatives and leaders. Bright House Networks is actively 19 educational software. AETN is comprised of A&E Network®, involved in various education initiatives for elementary, middle History™, History International™, BIO Channel™, The History and high schools. Initiatives such as the Star Teacher Awards are Channel en español™, Military History Channel™, Crime supported at the local level in the communities served by Bright & Investigation Network™, AETN International, A&E House Networks. The company also participates in the Emma IndieFilms™ and AETN Consumer Products. AETN is a joint Bowen Foundation, which provides internships for students venture of The Hearst Corporation, Disney-ABC Television interested in a career in the communications field. Bright House Group and NBC Universal. Networks is a founding member of Cable in the Classroom, which provides educational materials and support, free of AETN believes that an educated, involved, and informed charge, to local schools. Many other company and employee public is critical to our country’s future. For that reason, we efforts are underway in support of the work of local have created a variety of educational programs and resources for schools and organizations. For more information visit communities across America. Initiatives such as Take a Veteran www.mybrighthouse.com.

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Cablevision’s Power to Learn Comcast is committed to strengthening both its communities Power to Learn, Cablevision’s and its business by helping young people develop the skills signature education initiative, they need for success. To help make that happen, The Comcast empowers K-12 learning in Foundation has distributed an estimated $18.56 million in the tri-state area by making technology in the classroom useful support of literacy programs since 2001. Support of local and by facilitating the home-school connection. Power to reading and communications technology initiatives through Learn offers the Optimum Triple Play for Education, providing the Comcast Foundation helps improve literacy levels and all schools in Cablevision’s service area with the opportunity introduces people to fundamental computer skills. You can to receive high speed Internet, video, and voice to enhance learn more by visiting the “In the Community” section of our learning. Power to Learn goes beyond just providing the Web site at www.comcast.com. technology, however, to offer content, programs, and events that integrate technology into learning. Highlights include Internet Time Warner Cable 20 Smarts, “The Challenge” game show, Knicks Read to Achieve Education always has @powertolearn.com, and www.powertolearn.com, a free Web been the cornerstone of Time Warner Cable’s public service resource for teachers and parents. agenda. In order to make a lasting social impact on our communities and our country the company has pledged $100 Comcast Corporation million of cash and in-kind services toward a five-year plan to Comcast is the nation’s leading address America’s continuing decline in the areas of science, provider of entertainment, technology, engineering and math (STEM). The Project will information and communication seek to engage parents in the issue today and to encourage products and services. Comcast powers dreams in the students to become the problem solvers of tomorrow. communities we serve by providing access to innovative technology, volunteering our time, giving financial support and partnering with great organizations.

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Si l v e r Le v e l Sp o n s o r s Girls Clubs, Cox opens doors of opportunity and learning for numerous students in the towns and cities that our employees BET Networks call home. Visit www.cox.com for more information. BET’s educational initiative is the Emmy C-SPAN award-winning Rap-It-Up Campaign, a collaborative partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation that specifically The C-SPAN networks were created in focuses on HIV/AIDS in the African American community. 1979 by the cable television industry This campaign includes three secondary school, age-appropriate as a public service with a mission to curricula, developed by Topics Education, that provide practical provide first-person coverage of the American political process. methods and strategies for discussing sexual identity, sexual Today, C-SPAN programs three television networks: its decision-making skills, abstinence, sexually transmitted diseases, flagship channel, C-SPAN (US House, the daily Washington core value acknowledgment, and sexual health information Journal, and more); C-SPAN2 (US Senate and Book TV); and 21 sources. These lesson plans are based on BET’s HIV/AIDS- C-SPAN3 (political events and US History). The network’s related programming The Naked Truth series and Jeff Johnson video-rich website, C-SPAN.org, offers timely information Chronicles. Visit www.bet.com for more information. about Congress, the White House and politics and a fully searchable archives of C-SPAN video. C-SPAN Radio is Cox Communications, Inc. available nationally on XM Satellite Radio and in Washington Cox Communications believes strong at 90.1 FM. C-SPAN Classroom is a free resource for civics and communities are built from the kids social studies teachers, offering tips and tools for teaching with up. That’s why our community outreach programs support C-SPAN’s public affairs content. Find it online at primarily youth and education initiatives. Cox donates more C-SPAN.org/classroom. than $60 million each year in cash and in-kind contributions to schools and youth education groups. From funding after-school programs to providing video and Internet access to the Boys &

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Discovery Education programming to Cable in the Classroom designed to help Discovery Communications revolutionized build students’ reading, writing, critical thinking and social television with and development skills. All of ’s Cable in the is now transforming classrooms through Classroom programs for preschoolers and older children are Discovery Education. Powered by the number one nonfiction supported with comprehensive, standards-based educational media company in the world, Discovery Education combines materials that include lesson plans, classroom activities and scientifically proven, standards-based digital media and a discussion questions. dynamic user community in order to empower teachers to improve student achievement. Already, more than half of Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. all U.S. schools access Discovery Education digital services. CNN Student News, CNN’s cost- Explore the future of education at www.discoveryeducation.com. and-commercial-free educational program for middle and high schools uses the vast resources of 22 CNN Worldwide to create news and information content Disney and ESPN Media Networks specifically for the classroom. CNN Student News airs on Disney and ESPN Media Networks has a strong commitment HLN, Monday - Friday throughout the school year at 4 a.m. to pro-social and educational initiatives designed to enhance (ET). The show is available for on-demand viewing on the Web and improve children’s learning and personal development. at www.CNNStudentNews.com and as a video podcast on ESPN, Inc. is dedicated to working with our affiliates to CNN.com and iTunes. maximize education opportunities and improve student achievement, through various scholarship programs, grassroots initiatives, online curriculum information, and programs, Reception Sponsor Special Thanks such as our educational series SportsFigures. As part of Disney Lifetime Networks Hallmark Channel Channel’s commitment, each month the Channel Scripps Networks provides a selection of commercial-free educational

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Officers of the Board Board Members: National Cable & Jeff Gaspin Johnathan Rodgers Telecommunications Association and President President & CEO Chairman Cable in the Clasroom NBC Universal Cable & Digital Content TV One * Thomas M. Rutledge Chief Operating Officer Matthew C. Blank *Jerald Kent Gary Shorman Cablevision Systems Corporation Chairman & CEO President & CEO President & CEO Showtime Networks Inc. Suddenlink Communications Eagle Communications Vice Chairmaan *Patrick Esser George Bodenheimer Philip I. Kent Richard Sjoberg President Co-Chairman, Disney Media Networks Chairman & CEO President & CEO Cox Communications, Inc. President, ESPN, Inc. & ABC Sports Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Sjoberg’s, Inc. ESPN, Inc. Immediate Past Chairman Debra L. Lee Robert J. Stanzione *Brian L. Roberts William J. Bresnan Chairman & CEO Chairman & CEO Chairman & CEO Chairman & CEO BET Networks ARRIS Bresnan Communications Comcast Corporation Ken Lowe Amy Tykeson Treasurer *Glenn A. Britt Chairman of the Board, President & CEO President & CEO * Robert Miron President & CEO Scripps Networks Interactive BendBroadband Time Warner Cable 23 Chairman *Judith McGrath (Executive Committee Tony Vinciquerra Advance/Newhouse Communications *Rocco B. Commisso Member-Only) President & CEO Secretary Chairman & CEO Chairman & CEO Fox Networks Group Mediacom Communications Corporation MTV Networks *Neil Smit *Michael S. Willner President & CEO Frank M. Drendel Mark Niblick Vice Chairman & CEO Chairman & CEO Vice Chairman Insight Communications CommScope, Inc. Midcontinent Communications President David M. Zaslav * Kyle McSlarrow *Ronald Duncan James D. Pearson President & Chief Executive Officer President & CEO President & CEO President & CEO Discovery Communications, Inc. GCI (General Communication, Inc.) U.S. Cable Corporation * Executive Committee Member John D. Evans Abbe Raven Chairman & CEO President & CEO Evans Telecommunications Company A&E Television Networks

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Trent Anderson Nancy Larkin Ginger Shorrock Cablevision Systems Corporation Comcast SportsNet Discovery Education

Orlena Blanchard Reinaldo Llano Rob Stoddard TV One Bright House Networks National Cable & Telecommunications Association Sandy Colony Sonya Lockett Insight Communications BET Networks Kim Thomas Cox Communications, Inc. Ellen East Fred Maahs Time Warner Cable Comcast Corporation Joanne Wheeler 24 C-SPAN Bonnie Hathaway Mary Jo Moehle Time Warner Cable Charter Communications

Sherriah Johnson Libby O’Connell Cox Communications, Inc. AETN

Donna Krache Jennifer Ostrager Turner Broadcasting System, Inc. Cablevision System Corporation

Anita Lamont Terrie Pologianis Charter Communications Lifetime Networks

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