Where Soldiers Come From - May 29
From a snowy town in northern Michigan to the mountains of Afghanistan, follow the four-year journey of childhood friends who join the National Guard. (90 minutes)

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Calavera Highway - June 5
A sweeping story of seven Mexican-American men grappling with the meaning of masculinity, fatherhood and a legacy of rootless beginnings. (90 minutes)

Johnny Cash - June 12
In this classic 1969 documentary, the Man in Black is captured at his peak, the first of many in a looming roller-coaster career. Fresh on the heels of his Folsom Prison album, Cash reveals the dark intensity and raw talent that made him a country music star and cultural icon. (90 minutes)

Revolution ‘67 - June 19
An illuminating account of events too often relegated to footnotes in U.S. history — the black urban rebellions of the 1960s. (90 minutes)

In the Light of Reverence - June 26
In the Light of Reverence is a beautifully rendered account of the struggles of the Lakota in the Black Hills, the Hopi in Arizona and the Wintu in California to protect their sacred sites. (54 minutes)

The Way We Get By - July 3
Over the past five years, a group of senior citizens has made history by greeting over 900,000 American troops at a tiny airport in Bangor, Maine. (90 minutes)

The Kings of Pastry - July 10
Pastry chefs whip up the most gravity-defying concoctions and edge-of-your-seat drama as they deliver their desserts for the Meilleurs Ouvriers de France competition. (90 minutes)

The City Dark - July 17
Is darkness becoming extinct? Exploring the physical and psychological effects of light pollution, The City Dark is a portrait of the world after dusk, and a meditation on the human relationship to the stars. (60 minutes)

 Last Train Home - July 24
Every spring, China’s cities are plunged into chaos as 130 million migrant workers journey to their home villages for the New Year in the world’s largest human migration. (90 minutes)

The Principal - July 31
Over the course of a school year, two public school principals with unique styles and similar passions make a difference in the lives of their students. (60 minutes)

Eight-Arizona PBS Educational Outreach will provide a series of six FREE Family Literacy Workshops at various locations throughout North Phoenix. These 2-hour workshops will enhance your understanding of reading and language development of children birth to 5 years of age. Parents will be provided many FREE materials to enhance literacy with your young child.

Go to Workshops

Eight-Arizona PBS Educational Outreach will provide a series of six FREE Family Literacy Workshops at various locations throughout Yuma. These 2-hour workshops will enhance your understanding of reading and language development of children birth to 5 years of age. Parents will be provided many FREE materials to enhance literacy with your young child.

Go to Workshops

The APEX Project: Arizona Providers Engaging in Excellence (APEX)

Rio Salado College, in collaboration with KAET/ASSET (Arizona State University), offers a coaching model for early childhood professional development. Arizona's Providers Engaging in Excellence: The APEX Project has as its primary goal to advance the quality of care and education for Arizona's children by developing and sponsoring educational opportunities for childcare personnel to improve their knowledge and skills when working in any settings (e.g., family day care homes, centers, schools). APEX serves childcare personnel in the Northwest Maricopa and Central Maricopa Regions.

All Great Seminars will be in available in 2 locations: 

• CENTRAL Maricopa: Rio Conference Center, 2323 W. 14th Street, Tempe, AZ
• NORTHWEST Maricopa: Communiversity @ Surprise, 15950 N. Civic Center Plaza, Surprise, AZ, 85374

Workshops are from 9:00 am to 11:00 am.

Registration available Here

Arizona Director’s Academy (AZDAC)

Rio Salado College, in collaboration with KAET/ASSET (Arizona State University), is initiating professional development coaching model for early childhood directors and administrators. Named the Arizona Director's Academy (AZDAC), the goal of this program is to advance the quality of care and education for Arizona's children by developing and sponsoring educational opportunities for childcare personnel that improve the administration and management skills of current early childhood program administrators, directors and supervisors. The proposed design for AZDAC will serve childcare personnel in the South Phoenix Maricopa Region.

All Great Seminars will be in available in 1 location: 

• South Phoenix: Rio Salado Conference Center, 2323 W. 14th, Street Tempe, AZ 85281 (9:00-11:00)

Registration available here.

Developing Community Collaborations                                                        

Enhance your early childhood center’s Google site with a wealth of community resources by exploring what is available free of charge to families with children birth to age five.  Many have websites and 1-800 telephone numbers you can link to from your site.  Expand your website so it becomes the place parents want to visit often.

This seminar will focus on the following objectives:

• Explore the types of calendars that can be added to websites or blogs

• Brainstorm specific services and resources for each age group served by your center (i.e. developmental screenings, developmental milestones, age appropriate books, etc.

• Share your center website with other participants

PAS: Family Partnerships – Family Communications

PAS: Marketing and Public Relations – External Communications

• South Phoenix: May 26, 2012 (9:00-11:00)

Registration available here.

Research has shown that Super WHY! Summer Reading Camps have a significant impact on children’s acquisition of early literacy skills.

Children who attended Super WHY! Reading Camp demonstrated significant increases in decoding and encoding knowledge, and were able to apply their newly acquired skills to achieve meaningful gains on standardized index of overall reading readiness (Meyer and Sroka, 2010).

Attendees will learn how to implement a Super WHY! Summer Reading Camp, receive a curriculum binder and CD, and get a certificate for participation.

Space is limited. Register today!

More Information here.

WNET is hosting free webinars for educators focusing on the new series Finding Your Roots with Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The next webinar is taking place Wednesday, April 25th from 4:00 to 5:00 pm, EST.  We are  pleased to announce that Sheikh Yasir Qadhi, Rabbi Angela Buchdahl, and Finding Your Roots Senior Producer Rachel Dretzin will be participating in the webinar to share their insights and interact with participants. The session will focus on Episode 5 (featuring Buchdahl, Qadhi, and Pastor Rick Warren) and Episode 6 (featuring Maggie Gyllenhaal & Robert Downey, Jr.) and include tips for using the content in the classroom.    

Additional Finding Your Roots Webinars will also take place Wednesdays May 9th, May 23rd, and May 30th.  

For more details and to sign up for any of these sessions, please click here.

Join us for one of the following webinars on az.pbslearningmedia.org to learn more about this resource that offers thousands of curriculum and professional development resources from the best of public media and its partners…for FREE! The new media-on-demand service is designed specifically for educators and provides a variety of resource types -- videos, interactives, documents, audio and images -- all curriculum-targeted for classroom use.

Also discover a presenter toolkit providing a comprehensive set of free materials which can be tailored to meet school and participant professional development needs, including a downloadable powerpoint with notes, video descriptions, printable handouts, and suggested activities.

Webinars will be held:

Thursday, May 17, 4:00pm

Click Here to sign up.