PBS Steps In With Educational Programming As Los Angeles Schools Close

KCET and PBS SoCal, the PBS Southern California flagship organizations that merged two years ago, have worked closely with Los Angeles Unified School District Superintendent Austin Beutner over the past week to create three local educational programs. : for KCET, PBS SoCal, and KLCS, a smaller PBS station. owned by LAUSD.
The LA stations also brought in San Francisco-based PBS affiliate KQED to lead the development of digital resources that align with state standards and develop curriculum through PBS LearningMedia, a national digital resource that provides content to support educational assignment offerings. KQED will host online training for Los Angeles Unified School District teachers on how to use PBS LearningMedia.
Educational content will also be available on the PBS SoCal and KCET websites, on the free KCET app, available on Roku and Apple TV, and on the PBS Video app, also available on Roku, Apple TV, Amazon Fire TV, and Samsung Smart. TV. , streamed, Google Play and YouTube.
Andrew Russell, executive director of KCET and PBS SoCal, said the measures would give 700,000 local Los Angeles Unified School District students in various communities over 700 square miles access to educational resources, regardless of their broadband access from of Monday.
"As pillars of our community, PBS SoCal and KCET are on a mission to connect communities, which is why we are already talking to stations across the state and even across the country to follow our model." He said the national PBS sets the daily schedules for the three Los Angeles stations in its interconnection system, which allows all PBS stations across the country to pull them out of the cloud and broadcast them.
PBS SoCal's programming will keep students in pre-K through second grade busy. KLCS targets grades 3-8 and KCET targets grades 9-12. PBS SoCal and KCET return to regular programming during prime time. KLCS will continue to broadcast a mix of PK-12 content throughout the afternoon and evening. The digital channels of the broadcasters offer additional educational programs.
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We have two weeks of programming planned and will continue from there,” Russell said.
LAUSD is the second largest district in the nation after New York. The over-the-air element is key because about 80% of students come from families living in poverty, PBS told SoCal. An estimated 50% of Los Angeles Unified students do not have the digital tools (computer or tablet) to participate in online curriculum, and 25% of families do not have internet access at home .
Russell said design for the initiative only began Monday, after Superintendent Beutner approached Paula Kerger, the executive director of PBS in Washington, D.C., and Russell. Beutner asked the PBS team to work with the Los Angeles Unified training team to use rigorous lesson plans to develop the best standards-based training content they could find. Educators and families also contributed.
Russell said about 100 education directors from PBS stations across the country joined him today on a conference call to discuss the Los Angeles initiative and "how we could build a national partnership to serve our communities," as as more and more school districts begin to close a nation gripped by fears of the spread of the coronavirus.
“We want to continue to provide our students with the best
education possible as we work to assess the significant number of school
closures over the next two weeks,” Beutner said. "So we asked PBS to work
with us with a simple goal: We know what looks good, let's find a way to share
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