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Examining Education: Steve Green and the Challenges of Paving A Path to Success

Nick Haines sits down with KCMO School Superintendent Steve Green to get his reaction and response to the upcoming documentary 180 Days which explores the challenges in urban school districts.

Next week on KCPT, you’ll have the rare chance to take an intimate journey inside an American high school. With unprecedented access to students and teachers, 180 Days: A Year Inside An American High School explores a public school in Washington DC, one where only 7 percent of the students are deemed proficient in math, and the dropout rate is through the roof. Kansas City school superintendent Steve Green is facing many of the same challenges, and we’ll hear his reaction to this PBS series. But first here’s a sneak peek.

The two-part series, 180 Days: A Year Inside An American High School, airs Monday, March 25 and Tuesday, March 26, 2013 at 8pm.

Watch 180 Days preview cut on PBS. See more from 180 Days.

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Expanding Housing Options in a Changing Market

Imagine KC focuses on the new market demand for housing in our region. Watch Thursday, February 2, 2012 at 7:30pm.

A roof over our head. We all need one, but we don’t all want or need the same kind. The recent economic downturn, changing demographics and simple lifestyle choices have created a new market demand for housing in the region – from Olathe to Omaha, Nebraska, Imagine KC takes you into communities that are offering more options for seniors, transforming foreclosed homes, and creating new models of housing.

…on the next Imagine KC.
February 2 at 7:30pm

Featured interviews:

Kirk McClure, KU Professor
Michael Snodgrass, Builders Development Corporation
Kelley Hrabe, Netgivers
Susan, Assistant City Manager, Olathe

Imagine KC is a co-production between KCPT and the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC).
MARC Mid-America Regional Council

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Explore My KC Book

The Explore My KC Book project is the result of hundreds of photos submitted, with the best of the best selected for inclusion in the hardcover book that celebrates our commuity.

Become a member and receive your very own copy of the Explore My KC book. Books will be shipped after May 10, 2012.

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Explore My KC Book Launch Party

KCPT and The Centurions hosted the Explore My KC book launch May 22, 2012

KCPT and The Centurions invited the amateur photographers who participated in the Explore My KC website to The Terrace on Grand for the Explore My KC Book Launch Party on Tuesday, May 22. Over 3,500 pictures were submitted to the website over the last six months and the best of the best were selected to be in the very first Explore My KC book.

Order your own copy of the book which comes with KCPT membership now.

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Farm to Table: JCCC’s Center for Sustainability

Journalism and film students from Johnson County Community College show how their campus is involved in the “Farm to Table” and urban farming movement with its Center for Sustainability.

The Kansas City Star reported this week that the head of Johnson County Community College is retiring. We’re trying to book Terry Calaway on The Local Show. Along with increased enrollment during his five year tenure, Calaway is credited with bringing a lot of novel programs to JCCC which is consistently ranked as one of the best community colleges in the country.

People no doubt have heard about the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art which was added during his watch, but also, according to the article, they’ve also now got an on-campus farm. It supplies food for the campus cafe and its culinary program. And produce grown there also is sold to the community.

It’s part of the President’s big push to be more environmentally friendly including adding sustainability programs to the curriculum at the college.

As part of a new partnership of our own here at KCPT with broadcast students at JCCC, we get to take you to the farm this week.

This segment is the work of executive producer Amy Follmer and videographers Jordan Renzelman, Matt Lepley, Elizabeth Seidel, and Josh Browning.

If you would like to get your hands dirty, learn from urban farmers or lend a hand to your local farm, there is a community event on Saturday, November 10 from nine until noon. The location is the Gibbs Road Farm at 4223 Gibbs Road in KCK. Contact ami@cultivatekc.org for details.

Student working with a post hole digger in a field Student in a kitchen with fresh vegetables on display

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Fifty Years of KCPT: What Does KCPT Mean to You?

What does KCPT mean to you? To celebrate KCPT's 50th Birthday, we have asked viewers to share what KCPT means to them.

You may not be aware of it, but KCPT is 50 years old. The official birthday year began last spring. You could be forgiven for not knowing. Perhaps because of the poor economy and so many other things going on, we haven’t been making a big splash of it. Some of our pledge drives featured a 50th anniversary t-shirt. Certainly we didn’t do any birthday cakes or parties. You may have seen a couple of spots on the air that mentioned our history, but that’s been about it.

At the end of last year here on The Local Show, in the spirit of turning 50, we invited 50 viewers to tell us what KCPT means to them. After all, this station is about you. Starting today and over the next couple of weeks, you’ll see what people had to say and we invite you to join them.

What does KCPT mean to you? Can you tell us in five words or less on a sign or in some other creative way? Send a link to your video or email us a photo to The Local Show website. We’ll show you more of these on next week’s program.

Here is a look back to 1961…

For more glimpses into the past of KCPT, click here.

You can email images and video clips to thelocalshow@kcpt.org or share them with us on Facebook or Twitter.

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Fifty Years of KCPT: What Does KCPT Mean to You? Part Three

To mark KCPT's 50th birthday, we’ve asked 50 viewers to tell us what KCPT means to them. We leave you this week with more of YOUR creative messages.

Throughout Janaury we’ve been celebrating KCPT’s 50th birthday on The Local Show. Did you know, by the way, our station’s original licensee was the Kansas City Missouri School District and the Kansas City, Missouri School Board?

KCPT Public Television is 50 years old. As we mentioned last week, in the spirit of turning 50, we recently invited 50 of our viewers to tell us what KCPT means to them. Our only request was to write it on a sign with a marker in 5 words or less. The only exception to the rule: Figure out a way to show your five words more creatively. Here are some of the responses from your friends and neighbors as we recorded them around the metro.

What does KCPT mean to you? Can you tell us in five words or less on a sign or in some other creative way? Send a link to your video or email a photo to The Local Show. We’ll show you more of these on next week’s program.

Here is a look back to 1983…

For more glimpses into the past of KCPT, click here.

You can email images and video clips to thelocalshow@kcpt.org or share them with us on Facebook or Twitter.

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Fifty Years of KCPT: What Does KCPT Mean to You? Part Two

KCPT public television is 50 years old. As we mentioned last week, in the spirit of turning 50, we recently invited 50 of our viewers to tell us what KCPT means to them.

KCPT Public Television is 50 years old. As we mentioned last week, in the spirit of turning 50, we recently invited 50 of our viewers to tell us what KCPT means to them. Our only request was to write it on a sign with a marker in 5 words or less. The only exception to the rule: Figure out a way to show your five words more creatively. Here are some of the responses from your friends and neighbors as we recorded them around the metro.

What does KCPT mean to you? Can you tell us in five words or less on a sign or in some other creative way? Send a link to your video or email a photo to The Local Show. We’ll show you more of these on next week’s program.

Here is a look back to 1978…

For more glimpses into the past of KCPT, click here.

You can email images and video clips to thelocalshow@kcpt.org or share them with us on Facebook or Twitter.

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Finding Family for Foster Children: Extreme Recruitment

We share the story of Demaje, a boy who was trapped in the foster care system but was recently reunited with his family thanks to the Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association's Extreme Recruitment program.

More than half a million children are currently trapped in the foster care system.
Being removed from a home and placed in foster care is a difficult and stressful experience for any child. Many of these children have suffered some form of serious abuse or neglect.

The Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association based in Independence is going to some extraordinary lengths, including hiring private investigators, to try and locate family members who might be willing to adopt a hard to place child who might otherwise languish for years in the foster care system.

They call their program “Extreme Recruitment” and last year they found homes for 22 foster children, including a home for 10-year-old Demaje, whose mother abandoned him in Kansas City. In January, Demaje’s uncle was awarded temporary custody by Jackson County Family Court. Demaje has returned to his family in California.

The Midwest Foster Care and Adoption Association says they hope to find homes for forty children this year as part of their extreme recruitment program.

That segment was produced by Bryan Shepard at LINC, a KCPT partner organization which works to improve the lives of children and families in the Kansas City region.

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Fine Art Frosting: James David Christie Debuts KCPA’s Casavant Pipe Organ

We begin this week by introducing you to the newly installed musical centerpiece inside Helzberg Hall. A pipe organ considered one of the finest concert instruments in the country.

Six months after the opening of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, one of its most potent acoustic features has yet to be fully appreciated. That is until now.

We begin this week by introducing you to the newly installed musical centerpiece inside Helzberg Hall. A pipe organ considered one of the finest concert instruments in the country.

Crafted in the French romantic tradition, it features close to 6,000 pipes, 79 stops and 102 ranks.

It was built by Casavant, the 125 year old French-Canadian Firm, a company renowned for quality organs that have stood the test of time.

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