How Teachers Can Navigate School Closures Due to the Coronavirus Aligned to the same California content standards and topic areas as the broadcast service, KQED is creating and sharing the following free resources for teachers here: “The new daily TV programming will help bridge the digital divide for these students and provide equitable access to learning for all students.”Īs part of this unprecedented collaboration with PBS SoCal / KCET, KQED has developed corresponding free digital content for at-home learning and support for teachers navigating this new learning landscape. “Teachers across California are concerned for their students who will not have easy access to online learning at home," says Robin Mencher, KQED’s Executive Director of Education. The new 6am to 6pm schedule includes specific blocks of time for pre-K through 12th grade levels and covers subjects, including English language arts, social studies, science and math. KQED will dedicate the daytime weekday schedule on KQED Plus to California state standards-aligned educational programming provided by PBS SoCal and the Los Angeles Unified School District. “As a community-based public media station and as a hub for digital learning resources, KQED can play a critical role in helping create a learning environment with trusted and quality resources outside of the classroom and at home.” “These school closures bring unique challenges for teachers, parents and caregivers in how to keep teenagers and kids engaged and learning,” says KQED President and CEO Michael Isip. I don’t normally provide feedback to podcasts via reviews as I’d like to give them an opportunity to address privately, but unfortunately could not find a feedback form for the podcast on KQEDs website and felt compelled to share why they were losing a listener as I imagine I’m not alone in this sentiment and I want new listeners to have their expectations set accordingly.As many schools and districts in the Bay Area and across California suspend classes to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, the San Francisco-based PBS and NPR member station KQED announced an ambitious plan to support at-home learning for students by delivering a new weekday television schedule of educational programs aligned to state standards and by creating a suite of free digital learning resources accessible from home. Unfortunately, exacerbated by the fact that I’ve been a bit perplexed at the topics being covered, the remaining benefits of #1 are not enough to outweigh my issues with #2. Instead of making the episodes longer, I wish that KQED would release bonus episodes or specials to cover the topics that aren’t as timely or heavily rooted in news.Īs for #1, it’s still mostly true - although I have been confused as of late about the things *not* being covered by the California Report, like the recent school board recall election in SF which received national news media attention but has yet to be mentioned on this podcast. This has unfortunately made this podcast no longer something I can prioritize daily as a working mom and I will no longer be listening. Monday’s episode was a whopping 22 minutes! This is three times as long as I need or expect them to be, especially when they are covering things that aren’t what I’d consider “hard news” like book reviews and rehashing topics that don’t have significant updates. Most episodes, when I get time to listen in the afternoons, are now closer to 15 minutes. Unfortunately, over the last few months #2 is no longer happening. I originally started listening to this podcast for two reasons 1) to get a daily California news compliment to my national news intake and 2) ingest this in a quick format (most episodes were shorter than 7 minutes).
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