Western Reserve Public Media’s Department of Educational Services and its staff serve students and educators in eight Ohio counties (Carroll, Columbiana, Mahoning, Portage, Stark, Summit, Trumbull and Wayne), including: 92 public school districts, 111 nonpublic schools, 256,700 students, 21,500 educators. Educational Services provides these state-of-the-art services to educators and students:

• Technology training for teachers

• Web-based projects on a wide range of academic subjects

• Distance learning projects

• Award-winning local instructional television programming

• Instructional Television (ITV) schedule

• Multimedia instructional content

Our Department of Educational Services provided the following outreach during the 2006-07 school year:

• 171 technology workshops were held for 812 K-12 teachers

• 66 technology consultations were completed for 521 teachers

• 46 ITV workshops were held for 817 teachers and administrators

• 70 ITV consultations were completed for 88 teachers

• A total of 2,238 teachers and administrators attended our workshops, totaling 6,543 hours of workshop time

• Each month, 18,738 issues of our monthly TechKnowledgy Newsletter were distributed to 92 school districts, 5 joint vocational schools and 156 nonpublic schools

• 20,012 ITV Handbooks were distributed

• 509 hours of instructional television were broadcast over the year, including 45 series and nine individual programs

• 340 hours of block feed programming were broadcast, including 67 series and 24 individual programs

Educational Technology Training

For more than 30 years, Western Reserve Public Media has been training teachers and administrators to use the latest educational technologies in their classrooms (computers, the Internet, distance learning and more). Every year, our staff trains over 2,200 educators to use these tools and to share them with their students.