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WELCOME PBS TeacherLine Annual Fall Station Meeting October 7-8, 2009 Arlington, 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 Garnette Sharon 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 Study Reading 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 Recognition Scholastic Administr@tor ISTE Seal of Alignment for Development – Summer ‘09 Partnership for 21C Skills 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? Courses Grants PBS Ed Partnerships 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