The Multimedia Grant project has a long history of supporting educational initiatives for Ohioans. These projects are a joint initiative among Broadcast Educational Media Commission (BEMC), the Ohio Department of Education (ODE), and Ohio's Public Television Stations.

How to Recognize High-Quality Early Learning

How do you know if a preschool child care center is providing high quality? Choosing high-quality child care can set your child on a path of academic success. But how can you know if the services being provided are high quality? This video shares resources and suggestions that any parent can use to determine if a child care center or family child care home is providing high quality.

"How to Recognize High-Quality Early Learning” is brought to you by the Broadcast Educational Media Commission (BEMC), the Ohio Department of Education (ODE), and WPTO. To learn more about high-quality early learning in Ohio, visit http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Early-Learning on ODE’s website.

Early Childhood Math

Family support is vital to a child’s math education. When your family talks about math, plays math games, and reads books about math, you are increasing your child’s understanding. Math learning starts when your child is an infant and continues every day. Math encompasses the mathematical concepts and skills that children develop during the birth-to-five-year period, including children’s developing understanding of number and quantity, number relationships, basic algebraic concepts, and key attributes of objects, including size and shape, the way objects fit, are positioned, and move in space.

"Early Childhood Math" is brought to you by the Broadcast Educational Media Commission, the Ohio Department of Education, and WOUB Public Media. For more information about Ohio’s Early Learning & Development Standards, check out ODE's website at http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Early-Learning/Early-Learning-Content-Standards/Birth-Through-Pre_K-Learning-and-Development-Stand.

Literacy Tips Across the Ages

Ohio's Strategic Plan for Education #EachChildOurFuture specifically calls out the importance of early learning. The "Literacy Tips Across the Ages" video series includes ten videos focused on literacy learning from prenatal to adolescence. Research-based strategies and skills were outlined for parents and caregivers in a user-friendly format.

"Literacy Tips Across Ages" is brought to you by the Broadcast Educational Media Commission, the Ohio Department of Education, and WOUB. For more information about Literacy in Ohio, check out ODE's English Language Arts website at http://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Learning-in-Ohio/English-Language-Art.

Early Childhood Education Using Inclusive Models

This “Early Childhood Education using Inclusive Models” series focuses on the use of inclusive early childhood education models for pre-school students.  We explore how parents can determine if their child might need extra attention, what resources are available to those parents, and then we hear from the parents themselves how these programs have helped them and their children.  This series aims to take some of the fear, confusion, and stigma away from special needs services. "Early Childhood Education using Inclusive Models" is brought to you by the Broadcast Educational Media Commission, the Ohio Department of Education, and WBGU TV. For more information about early childhood education and special needs in Ohio, visit Ohio Bold Beginning https://boldbeginning.ohio.gov/family-guide/education-childcare/education-and-childcare or the Ohio Department of Education at https://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Special-Education/Preschool-Special-Education. 

Responding to Development Concerns: What do I do if I have concerns about my child?

Responding to Identified Needs in a Pre-K Classroom: What are my placement options?

Responding to Needs with Peer Models: Benefits of peer models in inclusive pre-K settings

The Right Start: Advancing Early Learning

The Right Start video series highlights programs and practices that support and advance early learning.  "The Right Start" is brought to you by the Broadcast Educational Media Commission, the Ohio Department of Education, and WOSU Public Media. For more information about early childhood learning in Ohio, check out Ohio Bold Beginning! at https://boldbeginning.ohio.gov/ or ODE’s Early Learning website at https://education.ohio.gov/Topics/Early-Learning. 

Fostering Diversity and Inclusion

Child care settings, where children of many different backgrounds play and learn together, help build a strong foundation for life and success in a culturally diverse society. See the A. Sophie Rogers School for Early Learning classrooms in action and hear from Dr. Laura Justice, Executive Director of the Crane Center for Early Childhood Research and Policy and the Schoenbaum Family Center.

Teachers Are Key

This sequence highlights the talents required to be a high quality teacher in early education.
Teachers Are Key highlights the role of high-quality teachers in early care and education settings. Hear teachers from the  A. Sophie Rogers School for Early Learning discuss the importance of building strong relationships with students, play-based learning, Pre-K to elementary school transitions, and peer relationships.

A Center Steps Up to Quality

The YMCA Hilltop Educare Center staff strives to maintain professional standards that promote learning and the social-emotional development of children in their care.

Moms2B

Learning begins very early—before birth. That’s a core belief of Moms2B, a program that empowers women in high-risk neighborhoods to deliver full-term, healthy babies by providing prenatal education and social support.