EDUCATION
Led by TPT’s TPT Learn team, new history education tools and resources are posted at PBS LearningMedia . Collections around Minnesota History are being created at the platform to offer educators new ways to access TPT’s Legacy-funded history content. Content and guides are aligned with state standards and provide localized stories to bring Minnesota’s rich history into classrooms across the state and beyond. Minnesota Experience connected with teachers around our history work at conferences like Education Minnesota in October. Not only is it a way to share what we are doing and what history work is accessible on the PBS LearningMedia platform, but it is a place to listen to what educators want and need for their history classes. Minnesota Experience producers also leaned on TPT Learn’s Advisory Committee for their feedback on education resources that compliment Legacy-funded media. An ongoing partnership between TPT and the Center for Community Work and Learning and Communications Department at St. Catherine University provides Communications students with real-world projects and experience. TPT’s Legacy-funded history documentaries like Citizen , Bring Her Home , and Jim Crow of the North , are providing new pathways for learning for students around important themes and social justice issues. TPT also benefits from the students’ research, audience insights and fresh perspectives on storytelling and absent narratives that we can take a closer look at.
A St. Kate’s Professor in the Communications Department shared of the recent classroom partnership:
Thank you for a wonderful conversation today! I so appreciate your time and dedication to working with the students. I think your words really helped them see what this work is all about, the impact it can have in shaping communities. I know that they have an excitement that they did not quite have before, I think it can only come from seeing the connections between what they do in the classroom and the real world. You all provided that for them. I think the students got so much out of this. Truly, you all provide something really vital that classroom instruction alone cannot. I am really grateful. This year, TPT partnered with a class to focus on Citizen , amplifying important themes around equity and democracy. Their feedback and research will help shape future work at TPT. TPT also partnered with St. Kate’s on a community screening of Citizen , featuring a discussion with Bo Thao-Urabe, Founder of Seed.Grow.Bloom., and TPT Executive Producer, Daniel Bergin.
MINNESOTA PUBLIC TELEVISION ASSOCIATION
LEGACY REPORTING: JULY 1, 2021 – JUNE 30, 2022
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