Leveraging PBS TeacherLine Local Innovation Funds

Partnerships for Early Childhood Educators

Early Childhood Project Partners• PBS TeacherLine• Qwest Foundation in Education• Olympic Educational Service District 114• ASSET-Eight Public Television

Right Now…• Partnership with the 9 WashingtonState Educational Service Districts.

• Forming 8 Cadres of early childhood educators.

• Cadre Leaders participating in OFT.

• Selected 5 PBS TeacherLine courses aligned with local needs.

• Collaborating with ASSET to design a pro-dev portal and test PD Assessment Tool.

Introducing… “The Neighborhood”

Roads Leading to “The Neighborhood”

• Local Innovation Project in Arizona

•Outside Foundation InterestLocal and National

• OESD PBS TL Goals

Local Innovation Project• AZ Early Childhood Cadres Launched

• “Let’s Get Ready” Workshops

• Eight Cadres Recruited

Outside Foundation Interest• Developed Relationship with Local Qwest Office

• Identified Common Goals

• Crafted ASSET Local Qwest Proposal

Qwest Partnership Expanded• Qwest National Foundation Interest

Project Now Includes AZ and WashingtonProject includes cadre and portal funding

• Proposal Process• 2007 Funding = Beta Test• 2008 Potential Opportunity to Expand

Next Steps…• Arroyo Research Services Evaluation

Reliability and Validity Testing for 360 Early ChildhoodEfficacy Study for Early Childhood Cadres

• 2008 Proposal to Qwest • Marketing –

Eight Program MagazineEight and KCTS 15 second Interstitials