Produced for public television and carried by over 150 stations nationwide, our programs have been designed to assist parents and educators in guiding children to become motivated and thoughtful learners. Now available for purchase — each with its own companion viewing guide — these programs encourage a lifelong interest in literacy, creativity, ethics... and learning itself.
Values go to School suggests that ethical issues are inseparable from the life of the classroom and the school. Documenting classroom life from kindergarten through high school, this program observes educators who have made values, a part of their curriculum. But what kinds of values do we want to embrace and foster?
How do children come to literacy? FROM PICTURES TO WORDS represents the view that encouraging young children to make pictures to invent their own graphic representations sets the literacy process in motion. Recent research in psychology and education indicates that children gain experience with written language by being read to...
Increasing pressures to begin formal academic work in the preschool years and a misunderstanding of the nature of play are diminishing the time and attention given to creative play in the classroom and at home an alarming development, according to many child development professionals. WHEN A CHILD PRETENDS represents the view...
The Learning Child Series is about nurturing the whole child, attending to cognitive development in the context of a child's social and emotional growth, recognizing that each child is unique and that every child's needs are different. Read more »
