Education Partners

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 if 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.

CCS Presentations
Since 1991, CCS Presentation Systems has served customers in the corporate, government and educational sectors. CCS provides full service integration, installation and maintenance of audio and video equipment including interactive whiteboards, projectors, LCD & plasma displays, audio systems, control systems and more. The company has expanded from a two-person operation to one of the largest A/V integrators in the U.S., with more than 300 employees, sales offices in 11 states and annual sales in excess of $100 million.

CCS Presentation Systems has always supported ASSET’s efforts to provide technology integration training to Arizona educators. During MEC 2008, ASSET was able to give one eInstruction 32-pad IR Classroom Performance System to one lucky educator attending the “ASSET/Eight Red Carpet Premiere Party” thanks to CCS Presentation Systems.

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."

Microsoft Education works with local, national, and international education communities to create technology, tools, programs, and solutions that help address education challenges, while improving teaching and learning opportunities.

Microsoft has always been a collaborative partner with ASSET to provide technology integration training to Arizona educators. Recently, the company provided a complete Microsoft Office Suite to the 2008 Arizona Outstanding In Home Care Provider award recipients. Three women were nominated based on their outstanding service to the children they care for in their homes. The Microsoft Office Suite donation was part of a larger technology package provided through KCET’s A Place of Our Own/Los Ninos en Su Casa. Each recipient is responsible for providing workshops based on the broadcast and online content created by KCET.

Maricopa Partnership for Arts and Culture is a regional nonprofit organization that promotes a vibrant creative community as a critical partner in the economic vitality of Metro Phoenix. MPAC funds research and initiatives to raise awareness and advance knowledge of the vital role arts and culture plays in Metro Phoenix’s economic prosperity, distinctiveness and vibrancy. Past and current efforts include subject matter such as the economic impact of the creative sector; the competitiveness of the region’s arts and culture sector against other cities; audience trends and behaviors; and perceptions both in-area and nationally of quality of life offerings in the Metro Phoenix area.

The Talaris Institute promotes successful parenting through research-based information about raising socially and emotionally healthy children, birth to five. ASSET/Eight partners with the Talaris Institute to distribute Parenting Counts resources for parents and tools to enhance the professional development of those who work with children and families, such as parent educators, nurses, early childhood teachers, clinicians, and child care professionals.

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.

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

Ridenour, Hienton, Kelhoffer & Lewis, PLLC helped ASSET/Eight launch its ASSET Educator membership program. The firm contributed funding for ASSET Educator memberships.

Ridenour, Hienton, Kelhoffer & Lewis, PLLC, is a full-service law firm, assisting corporations, governmental agencies and financial institutions as well as individuals with every aspect of their business and personal legal needs. Since its inception in 1980, RHK&L has been determined to shape a law firm with a different character.....one that provides a comfortable atmosphere, along with high-quality, cost-effective and timely legal services. This philosophy has allowed the Firm to establish and maintain many valued, long-term client relationships.

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.

The Robert J. Stransky Foundation has provided long-standing support of Eight’s early childhood education outreach efforts to families and children of Arizona. Specifically, the Foundation’s support has enabled ASSET, Eight’s educational outreach department, to embed a full portfolio of early childhood education resources within education agencies and community organizations across Arizona devoted to the unique needs of people who care for children.

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!

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.