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Last Chance to Enter the PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest. Deadline is Tomorrow!

Students, do you have a story to write? We’d love to read it! Enter KCPT’s 2012 PBS KIDS GO! Writers Contest today. The deadline is April 10, 2012.

KCPT’s 2012 PBS Kids GO! Writers Contest encourages kids to GO! Write! KCPT is once again encouraging elementary school students to stretch their creative wings by hosting the contest in the Kansas City region. For more than 15 years thousands of kids in grades K-3 have participated in this annual local and national contest. Stories can be mailed to the station or submitted online. Contest deadline is April 10, 2012. Local winners will be announced in late April and national winners will be announced in July.
Learn more about the contest guidelines and how to submit your story.

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Local Teacher Chosen as Member of PBS LearningMedia Teacher Core

Sarah Hayden, second grade teacher at Longfellow Elementary School, is chosen to join the PBS LearningMedia Teacher Core.

On March 14, 2013 Gary Brock, Director of Education at KCPT, and Sarah Hayden, second grade teacher from Longfellow Elementary School traveled to Arlington, Virginia to attend the PBS Digital Education Summit at PBS Headquarters.  During the Summit PBS announced the formation of its PBS LearningMedia Teacher Core.  The Teacher Core is comprised of teachers chosen from across the country for their dedication to the advancement of digital learning in education.  KCPT was pleased that Sarah, who is from the Kansas City Public School District, was one of twenty-eight chosen teachers.  Sarah will be working closely with the PBS LearningMedia Teacher Core continuing efforts to increase the usage of PBS LearningMedia in the metropolitan area.  The PBS LearningMedia Teacher Core will utilize the experience, expertise and passion of its twenty-eight members to reignite classroom learning and engage fellow educators using digital tools in classrooms nationwide.

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Looking for Teachers Using Digital Media

Tell us how you have innovated with digital media to enhance student learning.

The third annual Teacher Innovator Awards recognize innovative PreK-12 classroom educators, media specialists, technology coordinators and homeschool educators who use digital media to enhance student learning. Deadline to enter is December 12, 2012. Winners will be notified by March 31, 2013.

More information and instructions for entering.

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Martha Speaks – “Dog Daze Week”

Watch all week beginning July 23, 2012 at 6:30am.

This summer, PBS KIDS will focus on literacy with 10 weeks of themed programming. MARTHA SPEAKS “Dog Daze Week” will kick off on July 23 and feature the following episodes:

“Monkeyshines Martha/Dog Daze” *NEW* – July 23
“Martha in the Hold/Get Along, Little Dogies!” – July 24
“Truman’s Mad/Dog for a Day“ – July 25
“The Dog Did It/Martha Out West” – July 26
“Dogs in Space/Dogs from Space” – July 27

Watch all week beginning July 23, 2012 at 6:30am.

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Martha Speaks Delivers Books to Prairie Creek Elementary

The Martha Speaks Reading Buddies program encourages literacy at Prairie Creek Elementary.

Prairie Creek Elementary School enjoyed a visit from Martha as she helped to kick off their first Martha Speaks Reading Buddies Program. Fourth grade and Kindergarten students will participate in this fun, 10-session literacy program which pairs Big Buddies and Little Buddies to encourage reading and learning new words.

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Martha Speaks Reading Buddies Program Kicks off at Prairie Creek

On October 5th, Martha, the lovable dog that talks, will visit Prairie Creek Elementary school in Spring Hill to help kick off their first Martha Speaks Reading Buddies Program. Fourth grade students and kindergarten students will pair off for the 10-session literacy program becoming Big Buddies and Little Buddies. Each Little Buddy will receive a new book every week and the Big Buddies will help encourage them to read and learn new words.

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Nominate a Local MAKER

Do you know a groundbreaker who has sparked change, been first-in-her-field, and paved the way for those who followed?

NOMINATE A LOCAL MAKER: DECEMBER 1 – JANUARY 15
VOTE DECEMBER 1 – JANUARY 15 FOR 3 NOMINEES
WATCH LOCAL MAKERS STORIES ON KCPT IN FEBRUARY

Coinciding with the national airdate of MAKERS in February 2013, KCPT will produce three featurettes of women who have made a difference in the greater metropolitan area of Kansas City. The featurettes will be broadcast as interstitials in conjunction with the national program, will air in a KCPT magazine program, The Local Show, and will be available on the KCPT website, Facebook and Youtube pages.

How do we choose who to feature? You!

You submit your nomination of who should be celebrated as a woman who has made a difference in KC. We will cull the featurette stories from your nominations. You’ll also be able to vote for your favorite stories, helping us determine which of the stories will become a featurette.

Go to makers-kc.org nominate right now! Write up a paragraph and submit a photo. It’s that easy!

Who are the producers of the national project?

The project is founded by filmmaker Dyllan McGee.  Executive Producers are Dyllan McGee, Betsy West and Peter Kunhardt, who worked in consultation with a team of advisors to select the groundbreaking MAKERS featured, and Dalton Delan, Executive Producer for WETA.  The documentary is produced by Kunhardt McGee Productions, Storyville Films and WETA Washington, D.C., in association with Ark Media.  Foundation funding is provided by The Charles H. Revson Foundation, NoVo Foundation, Ford Foundation, John S. and James L. Knight Foundation, Carnegie Corporation of New York, The Rice Family Foundation, and The Rockefeller Foundation and others.

For more, visit MAKERS.com/press and follow @MAKERSwomen on Twitter and visit Facebook.com/makerswomen on Facebook.

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Outdoor Learning is Fun!

KCPT holds a Raising Readers Professional Development Workshop encouraging outdoor fun and learning.

Thursday, June 14, KCPT held its fourth Raising Readers Professional Development Workshop at the station. The workshop, which was titled Outdoor Fun and Learning, was geared towards early childhood providers. Instructor Shari Williams of The Family Conservancy gave participants a hands-on, minds-on introduction to environmental education, outdoor exploration and nature play for early childhood.

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Outside the Box: Jim Hinson and the Independence School District

Nick Haines talks to Independence School District Superintendent Jim Hinson about some of the headline grabbing issues that have put Dr. Hinson in the spotlight.

Should you be required to live where you work? The Independence School District thinks so.

A new residency rule is shaking up their top staff. About 60 principals, assistant principals and other Independence School District administrators who live outside the district are now going to have to start house hunting.

A policy just passed by the school board forces administrators to live in the district by February 2015. The idea was insisted upon by superintendent Dr Jim Hinson. But why?

It is just one of the headline grabbing stories that has put Hinson in the news of late. He’s also seen himself on the Today Show and Good Morning America in the last several weeks as the district opts to enroll more than a dozen of its most obese students in a 28 thousand dollar a semester weight loss camp in South Carolina.

Dr. Hinson sat down with Nick Haines on The Local Show.

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P.T. attended “Messy Night” at Bingham Middle School

P.T. attends "Messy Night" in Independence, Missouri.

April 4, 2013 P.T. traveled to Independence, Missouri and was a big hit at the “Messy Night” children’s event for students in the Independence School District.  There were many “messy” activities and P.T. wanted to be part of all of them.  The highlight of P.T.’s visit was when Trinity, a 4th grader from Proctor Elementary, painted P.T’s portrait and presented it to him.  This was a first for him and he will treasure the painting for a long time.  Thanks, Trinity.

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