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TeacherLine: Innovative Online Professional Development

Explore PBS TeacherLine’s new site and learn more about this innovative program, which provides online professional development for teachers through facilitated modules that meet state and local standards, along with supportive and collaborative learning communities and exemplary internet-based resources.

Kids In Need Teacher Grants

Elementary / Middle / High School

Kids In Need Teacher Grants provide K-12 educators with funding to provide innovative learning opportunities for their students. The SHOPA Kids In Need Foundation helps to engage students in the learning process by supporting our most creative and important educational resource — our nation's teachers. Retail sponsors and designated education credit unions make the grant applications available at their outlets during the back-to-school season.

Adult Learning

PBS LiteracyLink

PBS LiteracyLink is a public broadcasting initiative that links underserved and hard-to-reach adults and their teachers to exciting new learning tools. LiteracyLink uses public television and the internet to reach learners and teachers whenever they are.

Web-based instruction for ESL learners and teachers is also in development.

GED on TV

GED on TV is your information source for adult education on Indiana public television stations.

GED Connection

Tue & Thu, 11am

GED Connection is a dynamic multimedia instructional package that prepares learners for the new GED exam and for the world beyond. It creatively combines video, workbooks and the internet. The series uses and engaging documentary-style approach to instruction, with many real-life examples of how people use the skills and knowledge tested on the GED at work and in their homes and communities. GED Connection combines interviews with experts, learners, poets and scientists with documentary footage and informational graphics. The series is informative and exciting, even for curious, non-GED viewers.

Upcoming Programs

Arts & Literature

Elbert Hubbard: An American Original

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Middle / High School
Monday, November 23 at 10pm

The life of Elbert Hubbard (1856-1915) is a story of love, art, passion and controversy set against the backdrop of the Arts and Crafts Movement at the turn of the 20th century. To this "back-to-basics" artistic and cultural movement, Hubbard contributed his bold, ingenious talent and creative force.

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Science & Technology

Nova: What Are Dreams?

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High School
Tuesday, November 24 at 8pm

What are dreams and why do we have them? Are they a window into a hidden realm within us? Science is only just beginning to understand. NOVA joins the leading dream researchers and witnesses the extraordinary experiments they use to investigate the world of sleep.

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Social Studies

Bill Moyers Journal

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High School
Fridays at 9pm

For nearly four decades, Bill Moyers has enriched the conversation of democracy with fresh and original voices-perspectives seldom available anywhere else on television -- that reflect a diversity of wisdom, experience, and insight.

PBS NewsHour

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Middle School / High School
Weeknights at 7pm

For 30 years, millions of Americans and citizens of the world have turned to MacNeil/Lehrer Productions for the solid, reliable reporting that has made PBS NewsHour one of the most trusted news programs in television.

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Site of the Week

PBS TeacherLine

PBS TeacherLine's high quality, standards-based graduate-level courses offer teachers the professional development opportunities they need in an accessible online format that makes learning fun, flexible and collaborative. You can earn graduate credit, PDPs, or CEUs while gaining strategies and resources to bring directly to your classroom.

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