PBS NORTH | DULUTH, MN PBS North & Legacy funding meet the needs of our youth
Over the last fiscal year, PBS North has worked to build an education initiative, the first of its kind for the station, to establish the station as an education resource for our community in the future. Over the past year we hired an Education Engagement Coordinator (EEC) to start this process. We began with a thorough research process to create an internal report on existing educational resources and programs available throughout the region. We determined two areas of lacking resources within the education ecosystem of the region – social emotional learning support (resources on anxiety, resilience, empathy, coping) and K-3 literacy resources. The second step in this process was developing an action plan to address these opportunities and develop our initiative. Our EEC has done this in two key ways.
Cardinal Learning Hub The Cardinal Learning Hub, still in development, is our web- based initiative “home base” where parents/caregivers, educators, out-of-school care providers, and students can find all our education resources – from national PBS LearningMedia content to local lesson plans to local event calendars…and more! On this Hub we will be able to provide and develop resources to support social emotional learning in and out of school as well as resources for K-3 literacy development.
Storytelling
Our second initiative function is to use our strength, storytelling, to make an impact in these two areas. We aim to share stories made for and with our region’s youth, as well as in and out-of-school educators, parents/caregivers and more. We have begun by releasing Community Stories as a part of our existing programming that feature the great educational and youth-centered work happening in the region. Our next goal is to launch a series, I Can Read Anywhere , highlighting literacy skills development, relationships and social emotional health, multiple literacies, and imagination and creativity.
Our EEC is developing this initiative with community-centered design, collaborating, and involving education stakeholders in the region. Feedback has already shown great excitement for the resources we will and are providing. The Executive Director of the Valley Youth Center noted his excitement over PBS North becoming actively involved in the Duluth Youth Agency Coalition and a librarian at Duluth Public Library noted, “I was excited to hear about your I Can Read Anywhere program and would love to learn more about it and whether or not it makes sense for the library to collaborate with you on it in some capacity.”
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