Summer Event Highlights

PBS Western Reserve summer highlights!

Be My Neighbor Day was "Grr-ific"!

Thank you to all the families who joined us for this year's

Be My Neighbor Day in Akron!

Be My Neighbor Day is a free event that celebrates kindness and promotes being a caring neighbor. On July 30th, PBS Western Reserve hosted this family friendly event at the Akron Civic Theater with sponsorship from PNC Grow Up Great and Fred Rogers Productions. Participants were able to watch the Daniel Tiger movie in the theater, meet Daniel Tiger, engage in kid-friendly activities, enjoy live music and listen to a favorite Daniel Tiger book during story time. Families walked away with giveaways and had the opportunity to visit local vendors coordinated by the Akron Metropolitan Housing Authority.

Missed Be My Neighbor Day in Akron? Join us September 18th for our Youngstown Be My Neighbor Day event in collaboration with Silly Science Sunday at the Oh Wow! Children's Science Center. Stay connected for upcoming details!

Stay Connected

PBS Western Reserve delivered over 30 Cyberchase Green It Up sessions across Portage, Summit, Stark and Mahoning county. This engaging program helps kids to appreciate nature through hands-on STEM activities in connection to the characters of the PBS Kids show, Cyberchase. Children explored the topics of pollination, flower and vegetable gardens, and composting.

Let's Go Fly a Kite!

Ben Franklin Program

On Saturday, June 18, more than 60 children and parents attended the station's Go Fly a Kite with PBS Western Reserve event held at Youngstown's main library branch. The grant-funded event was part of an educational outreach event held in celebration of the April premiere of Ken Burns' documentary BEN FRANKLIN.

Ohio

Learns

360

Do you run an afterschool program or summer camp?

Ohio’s PBS stations, through a partnership with the Ohio Department of Education, are working with local summer and afterschool programs to address disruptions to learning caused during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Called Ohio Learns 360, this new initiative will provide families, afterschool and summer programs with PBS resources, including camps-in-a-box, virtual field trips, family webinars, interactive after school programs, and community events, all designed to accelerate student learning and support the state’s most vulnerable learners in kindergarten through fifth grade.

Stay connected for upcoming event listings and additional information!

Learn More!

Do you want to continue to receive

the Connected Educator?

To learn more on how we can work together on professional development needs

please contact PBS Western Reserve via email at education@pbswesternreserve.org

call 330-677-4549 or connect to us socially at:

PBS Western Reserve serves the largest population among Ohio’s eight PBS member stations with 4.9 million people in the Cleveland and Youngstown designated market areas. As an Ohio Ed Techs agency, it offers educational resources to more than 226,000 students and 540 schools.

Any suggestions for additional videos, resources and/or support materials would be greatly appreciated. Feel free to reach out to me at jgood@pbswesternreserve.org or via my mobile phone at 330-277-6059.

Jeff Good, Chief Education Technology Officer

PBS Western Reserve