WELCOME

PBS TeacherLineAnnual Fall Station Meeting

October 7-8, 2009Arlington, VA

MEETING GOALS

• Share information, strategies, ideas, solutions

• Build expertise around PBS TeacherLine products

• Connect and collaborate with PBS TeacherLine colleagues

Welcome from PBS

Rob Lippincott

Senior Vice President, Education

Welcome from the U.S. Department of Education

Cheryl GarnetteSharon Harris

Office of Innovation & Improvement

News from PBS TeacherLine

• GPRA Review – High Quality!

• New Courses/New Partnerships

• WestEd Study Off and Running

• Awards and Alignments

• NASA Grant + Augmentation Funding

• Integration Across PBS Education

New Partnerships/New Courses

New Courses • NBPTS• Raising Readers 2• KERA: Read With Me• ISTE Capstones

Georgia State Endorsement

New Opportunities• NASA• Library of Congress• Purdue University:

Elem. Engineering

Summative Research Coming!

Peer Connection Summative Research Underway• WestEd Contract Began in April• 101 Coaches/Mentors Recruited• Training and Kick Off in October• 2 Year StudyReading Fluency Course Summative Research Enters

Phase 2• 78 Teachers Enrolled in “Teaching Reading Fluency”• Self Report Teacher Data in Spring Shows Promising

Results• Student Data to be Reported this Fall

RecognitionScholastic

Administr@torPartnership for 21C

Skills

ISTE Seal of Alignment for Development – Summer ‘09

NASA Grant

• $498K over three years• 2 Online Courses for Teaching Climate

Change – M.S. and H.S.• Add’l $99K in first two years (New!)• Develop 10 Learning Modules

– Focused on Climate Change– 1-2 hours of content; self-paced– Offered free on PBST Website– If you like this, you’ll love…

Integration w/ PBS Education – What the Teachers Need

• Effective Professional Development• Quality Digital Learning Objects• Robust Community• Support Services

PBS Education can deliver the infrastructure to support all of these essential learning needs!

Integration w/ PBS Education

• Concerted effort to integrate all of the PBS Education services – DLL, PBST, PBSTL and Peer Connection

• Starting this year with “community”

• How do we leverage our content and services for all educators?

• How do we expand reach and raise all boats?

So, 2010?

Grants

Courses

PBS EdPartnerships

Introducing the PBS Staff!

Introducing our Station Partners!

• Your name, station and station location

• How long you have been working with PBS TeacherLine

• And one piece of information that you are hoping to gain from this meeting

Now Let’s Get Started!

Sandie Pedlow

PBS TeacherLine