Texas schools and universities have a long history of partnering with public television to provide high-quality educational programming to Texans. In fact, KUHT in Houston was the first noncommercial educational television station in the nation. In 1982 the Texas Public Broadcasting Association (TPBA) was formed to foster collaboration and increase access to education for the benefit of all Texans.
Community Partnerships
Since their inception Texas stations have participated in public-private partnerships to offer preschool outreach services, K-12 educational services and distance learning programs. The federal mandate for all broadcasters to convert to digital television brought a new opportunity to partner on a wider level with schools, libraries and hospitals. The state’s Telecommunications Infrastructure Fund (TIF) invested $20 million to assist public television stations in the capital outlay and development of digital broadcasting technology.
Early Childhood Education
Raising Readers
Texas schools and universities have a long history of partnering with public television to provide high-quality educational programming to Texans. a long history of partnering with public television to provide high-quality educational programming to Texans.
Learn more about Early Childhood Education Resources.
Texas School Ready! Partnership and Summits
Texas PBS Stations have worked with the Texas Education Agency (TEA), Texas Early Childhood Education Coalition (TECEC) and the State Center for Childhood Development at the Children’s Learning Institute. The Texas School Ready! Program provides resources to schools, Head Start and early childhood centers. Texas Stations have supported these efforts and helped develop summits to provide more information about best practices for helping prepare young children ready for school.
Learn more about Texas School Ready! Summits.
K-12 Education Resources for Teachers and Classrooms
Texas PBS stations provide high-quality pre K-12 educational resources. Teachers access classroom materials suitable for a wide range of subjects and grade levels. We provide thousands of lesson plans, teaching activities, on-demand video assets, and interactive games and simulations. These resources are correlated to state and national educational standards and are tied to PBS’ award-winning on-air and online programming like NOVA, Nature, Cyberchase, Between the Lions and more.
Learn more about PBS Classroom resources.
Project Share
Project Share is a new service of the Texas Education Agency (TEA) that provides a collection of Web 2.0 tools and applications that provides high quality professional development in an interactive and engaging learning environment. Texas stations provide digital content as part of Project Share that teachers can use to integrate into their lesson plans.
Texas PBS Stations have also participated in an statewide campaign to build awareness of Project Share.
Learn more about Project Share.
Professional Development
PBS TeacherLine
As the premier provider of high quality online professional development, PBS TeacherLine of Texas is focused on helping Texas teachers.
TxVSN
Texas PBS Stations are approved providers of training as part of the Texas Virtual Schools Network.
Learn more about Texas Virtual School courses offered by PBS.