Education Partners

Eight, Arizona PBS is partnering with Lakeshore Learning Materials to help provide teachers with the finest educational materials available! With over 55 years of experience providing top-quality products to the nation's schools, Lakeshore now offers educational software that aligns to Common Core State Standards. Featuring titles for math, language and science, you'll find their software successfully targets the needs of K–6 classrooms throughout Arizona. For a limited time, Arizona Educators who create an az.pbslearningmedia account can download a FREE Lakeshore software title for your interactive whiteboard or classroom computer!. This offer is valid through December 31, 2011.

The BEST Program differentiates professional development for teachers throughout their life cycle of teaching and builds on the capacity of leadership within the educational system. The program is job-embedded and systemic, and provides a seamless continuum of professional development from induction through leadership. In every component, an emphasis is placed on teacher quality and student achievement.

Community Education, Outreach and Prevention
The mission of Barrow's Community Education, Outreach, and Prevention Department is to provide a full continuum of programs to educate individuals of all ages, community leaders, and public policy makers on how to prevent brain, spinal cord, and other traumatic injuries.

Adaptive Curriculum
Adaptive Curriculum is an award winning, standards and research based, online collection of Activity Objects in middle and high school math and science. Adaptive Curriculum will provide a one year teacher subscription to ASSET Educator Members that are Middle or High School Math and/or Science teachers. ASSET provides professional development services (e.g., instructional training design, face to face workshops, and webinars) in collaboration with ASU faculty working for Sebit, Inc to support the integration of Adaptive Curriculum in middle and high school classrooms across the United States and its territories. Sebit, Inc. is based at the ASU Skysong Campus in Scottsdale, Arizona.

Annenberg Media - Learner.org
ASSET and Eight/KAET are a mirror site for Annenberg Media video services. Annenberg Media at Learner.org offers workshops, courses and almost 1,000 videos designed for educator professional development. If is free to create an account.

Annenberg Media uses media and telecommunications to advance excellent teaching in American schools. This mandate is carried out chiefly by the funding and broad distribution of educational video programs with coordinated Web and print materials for the professional development of K-12 teachers. It is part of The Annenberg Foundation and advances the Foundation's goal of encouraging the development of more effective ways to share ideas and knowledge.

Arizona Science Center
The mission of Arizona Science Center is to inspire, educate and entertain people of all ages about science. The Center, located at 600 E. Washington St. in Copper Square in downtown Phoenix, features more than 300 hands-on exhibits, daily live demonstrations, a multi-media Dorrance Planetarium and an IMAX® Theater. For more information, visit azscience.org or call 602-716-2000.

AzTEA - Arizona Technology in Education Alliance
Eight Educational Outreach: ASSET supports AzTEA at the top level of non-profit sponsors with in-kind services. ASSET is pleased to promote AzTEA events, offer studio space for special events, and participate as a presenter at local chapter workshops. ASSET also promotes AzTEA membership and local involvement with ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) initiatives. AzTEA will support Eight Educational Outreach through its contributions to special innovative technology projects such as the work with FRONTLINE: Digital Nation.

Creative Memories
Creative Memories, like educators, believes in the importance of preserving the past, enriching the present, and inspiring hope for the future. With it's quality line of traditional scrapbooking supplies and the additions of digital scrapbooking and many time-saving options, Creative Memories remains at the forefront of the memory celebration industry worldwide. The company also offers custom framing services and ready-made display pieces to showcase memories for all to see. As well, our Photo Center provides ways to create custom posters and pages, cards and photo prints for use in homes or in classrooms. Creative Memories is dedicated to helping people around the world protect and celebrate their life stories....."Your life, your story, your way."

ASSET, a self-supporting department of Eight/KAET, is proud to offer PBS TeacherLine to ASSET members across Arizona. ASSET is one of the original 16 local PBS stations selected by PBS to offer TeacherLine’s online professional development opportunities. To learn more about PBS TeacherLine go to www.pbs.org/teacherline.

ASSET-Eight is proud to have been awarded a Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust grant in support of the Ready To Learn program. This grant helps fund Ready To Learn workshops for parents and other educators of children birth to five in Maricopa County. Ready To Learn is public broadcastingÍs ongoing contribution to our nationÍs most important educational goal Æ that all children begin school ready to learn.

The Mission of the Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust:
ñThe Nina Mason Pulliam Charitable Trust seeks to help people in need, especially women, children and families; to protect animals and nature; and to enrich community life in the metropolitan areas of Indianapolis and Phoenix.

ASSET has partnered with the Qwest Foundation for several years to build a strong portfolio of early childhood educator services for Arizona educators. These services include face to face and online workshops for educators and in-home childcare providers with KCETÍs A Place of Our Own/ Los Niños en Su Casa, as well as reduced registration costs for PBS TeacherLine online courses such as ñRaising Readers: Preparing Preschoolers for Success.î

Qwest Foundation funds have also supported stipend costs for Early Childhood Classroom Innovators. These classroom and agency leaders will support their colleagues in participating in the professional development offered by ASSET-Eight as well as integrate PBS on-air and online standards-based resources for teachers, parents, and children into their daily classroom activities.

Look for other ways the Qwest Foundation supports PreK-12 education:

• One Percent Program Æ Paying money back to school districts across the state

• Incredible Internet Æ Internet Safety for children, families, and educators

• Click here to learn more about the QWEST Foundation.

• Learn more about Qwest’s School Success for the Entire Family Backpacks

• Click here to learn more about the Early Childhood project.

Rio Salado College - Early Childhood and Human Development Program
Our program mission is to provide high quality educational services that are inclusive, student & community focused, comprehensive, responsive and directed at increasing the professionalism of the early childhood and human development field.

Science Matters
Science Matters is a major public awareness and engagement campaign by the National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) designed to rekindle a national sense of urgency and action among schools and families about the importance of science education and science literacy. Science Matters brings content, news and information that supports quality science education to parents and teachers nationwide-information that focuses on quality learning experiences in the sciences for students starting at an early age, and why science education is critical to science literacy and our future workforce. Science Matters builds on the success of the Building a Presence for Science program, first launched in 1997 as an e-networking initiative to assist teachers of science with professional development opportunities. The Building a Presence for Science network-now the Science Matters network-reaches readers in 34 states and the District of Columbia. For more information, visit http://sciencematters.nsta.org

Shape Up Us
Shape Up US has joined the national effort to stem the tide of heart disease by developing a unique and exciting program called "Hip Hop Healthy Heart Program."

This K-6th grade cardiovascular disease prevention program is totally interactive and the program emphasizes healthy diet, consistent exercise and positive thinking in six lesson plans that include 29 lessons.

Sprouting New Beginnings
Mission Statement - Planting the Seeds for Early Learning by using the signs from American Sign Language to promote early brain development, language acquisition and literacy for the whole child, every child!

Teachers' Domain
Teachers' Domain is an online library of more than 2,800 free media resources from the best in public television. These classroom resources, featuring media from NOVA, Frontline, Design Squad, American Experience, and other public broadcasting and content partners are easy to use and correlate to state and national standards.

Teachers' Domain resources include video and audio segments, Flash interactives, images, documents, lesson plans for teachers, and student-oriented activities. Once you register, you can personalize the site using "My Folders" and "My Groups" to save your favorite resources into a folder and share them with your colleagues or students. Teachers' Domain strives to strengthen teacher knowledge by providing innovative teaching methods that incorporate technology in the classroom and inspire students to learn.

Tech4Learning
Tech4Learning, Inc, is an innovative educational technology company that develops and markets original professional development programs and creativity products for K-12 education. Since the company was founded in 1999, we have focused on developing tools educators need to be successful with technology in their classrooms.

Teaching Stuff
Teaching Stuff is home to all your school supply needs, and weÍve been serving ArizonaÍs teachers since 1993. Visit one of our 7 retail locations.

The Challenger Center
Challenger Center for Space Science Education in Arizona uses studentsÍ natural enthusiasm for space to create innovative learning experiences for imaginative young minds. By transforming the way teachers teach and students learn, Challenger Center is creating a new generation of explorers.

Westside Head Start
Founded in 1933, Catholic Charities is one of Arizona’s oldest and most prolific human services agencies. We provide health, help and hope regardless of economic status, race, ethnicity or religious affiliation. Catholic Charities is accredited by the Council on Accreditation of Services for Families and Children, demonstrating our compliance with the highest results-based standards in the field.

We offer more than 50 compassionate, life-changing programs including Westside Head Start, which provides developmental preschool services to children ages 0­5 who live in homes with household incomes at or below the poverty level. Each family receives support in achieving their own goals, education about their child’s needs and engagement in the daily aspects of the classroom.