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 2009-10 school year:

• 182 educational technology workshops were held for 2794 K-12 teachers

• 11 of the workshops were delivered via videoconferencing serving 156 educators locally but over 700 educators statewide

• A total of 2794 teachers and administrators attended our workshops, totaling 6741 hours of workshop time
  

• Five times per year, 18,738 issues of our monthly TechKnowledgy Newsletter were distributed to 92 school districts, 5 joint vocational schools and 156 nonpublic schools

• 340 hours of block feed programming were broadcast

Educational Technology Training

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 2,500 educators to use these tools and to share them with their students.