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PBS TeacherLine PBS TeacherLine is the premier professional development resource offering online courses for PreK-12 teachers. Trained, certified facilitators lead more than 100 top-quality six-week courses that span the entire curriculum: Reading/Language Arts, Science, Mathematics, Instructional Technology, and Instructional Strategies. Coursework can cover a complete sequence of study or address a specific requirement. And, online learning is fun, flexible and collaborative. Learn More... 
 
Check out this month's issue of the Reading Rockets newsletter. Here you'll find information for parents and educators about teaching kids to read and helping those who struggle. More...
 
Checkpoints and Challenges Checkpoints and Challenges© was developed to create a set of role-playing experiences that are similar to those that women and men face when returning to the community after incarceration. The game also provides insight into the roles of the professionals whose jobs monitor, enforce, encourage, regulate, support, and interact with those who are reentering. The goal of the game is for a former inmate to successfully re-enter the community while experiencing as few challenges as possible. Circumstances and decisions the parolee controls, circumstances and decisions the agency or bureaucratic systems control, and luck will all influence the outcome of the game. Board Game Character

Checkpoints and Challenges© is a teaching tool, designed for use in reentry programs, corrections systems, congregations wishing to engage in prison ministries, professional training and conferences, and in secondary and higher education classrooms with a focus on social work criminal justice, psychology, public policy, or sociology. As with any experiential learning tool, the success of the learning depends upon the processing of the experience so that the learner makes observations, draws generalization, seeks ways to apply the learning and reflects on how it might change one’s attitudes or behaviors.

Selling price: $32, $8 additional for shipping. You can order Checkpoints and Challenges© online from the Volunteers of America Web site

GED on TV GED on TV
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WFYI in collaboration with 2nd Chance Education is broadcasting GED on TV. The 43-part GED on TV series is composed of 5 sections focusing on the core skills needed to pass the GED. The sections are writing, reading, social studies, science and mathematics. Learn more and find links to local GED resources and tutors online here

Make Your Home Book-Friendly the Between The Lions Way

  1. Make a special place at home for reading and writing. Spend regular time with your kid in the reading space.
  2. Find a well lit, quiet corner with comfortable seating. If you don’t have the extra space, set aside a regular time for the kitchen table, or some other area, to become that space.
  3. Hang fun pictures (you can get some from your local library) and your kid’s artwork and writing.
  4. Work with your kid to come up with a name for the library and make signs, library cards and bookmarks.
  5. Designate an area as the “library shelves” with bookshelves or some other means of shelving books.
  6. Always keep writing materials (paper, pens, pencils, markers, crayons) available and within easy reach.
  7. Make your kid a co-librarian and together start building your library with new, used or donated books.
  8. Over time, stock the library with a range of books your kid will enjoy and find meaningful, including age appropriate books about your kid’s hobbies and interests, family background and local area.
  9. Use the space in other ways related to reading and writing. Play “Pretend Library” with your kid, and take turns being the librarian or visitor.
  10. Invite special guests like family members and friends into the library. Have guest readings of your kid’s favorite books or have guests bring their favorite childhood books to share.
 
 
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The core of Ready To Learn is a full day of non-violent, commercial-free, educational children's television programming broadcast free of charge to every American household. The daily broadcast includes award-winning programs such as Arthur, Between the Lions, Clifford, Dragon Tales, Reading Rainbow ,and Sesame Street.

Ready To Learn also provides extensive outreach services in local communities. These services include workshops for parents, childcare providers and other early childhood professionals and distribution of children's books and PBS Families/para la Familia magazine. Ready To Learn is funded by a Ready To Learn Television Cooperative Agreement from the U.S. Department of Education through the Public Broadcasting Service.

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While renowned for its programming, WFYI is more than just another radio and television service. WFYI works to help solve problems that are important to the central Indiana community. Through the years, programs on topics such as literacy, substance abuse, workforce development, and the environment, accompanied by community outreach efforts with other organizations, focus attention on developing workable solutions
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