Ready To Learn | Impact Studies
Vegas PBS Ready To Learn collaborates with local schools and community partners to deliver high-quality, research-based educational programs that strengthen the educational impact of PBS KIDS content.
Evaluative Research of Vegas PBS: Ready To Learn Initiative
Strategies for Creating Home-School-Media Partnerships: Engaging Children Across Learning Environments
Key findings from the 2023-2025 iteration of the Vegas PBS Ready To Learn Initiative (RTL)
Universal themes addressed include:
- Examining the efficacy of home-school-media educational partnerships to leverage academic takeaways through the creation of take-home materials.
- Parent mediation of and engagement with educational materials, specifically science and socioemotional learning materials, used in the home from media partners.
- Parent perception of teacher-led workshops designed to guide parents through home engagement of educational materials.
- Teacher responses to leading workshops and distributing take-home materials.
Independent Studies
CPB and PBS commissioned independent researchers to conduct the following studies, of which Vegas PBS Ready To Learn was a participant.
Strategies for Success in Community Partnerships: Case Studies of Community Collaboratives for Early Learning and Media provides insights into strategies associated with success in community partnerships focused on early learning and family engagement that targeted children in families in under-resourced communities. This research can benefit anyone interested in forming, managing, improving or funding community partnerships.
The Ready To Learn Initiative 2015-2020 Grant Summary summarizes the multi-year accomplishments of the CPB-PBS Ready To Learn Initiative (2015-2020) that was funded by the U.S. Department of Education. To set the stage for future success for children, CPB and PBS developed free, high-quality science and literacy television series, digital games and apps, streaming content, parent and educator resources, and community engagement materials implemented by Vegas PBS and station colleagues to improve school readiness skills for kids ages 2-8.
PBS KIDS ScratchJr FCL Workshop Implementation Study details an implementation study of the PBS KIDS ScratchJr Family and Community Learning (FCL) Workshop, developed as part of the CPB-PBS Ready To Learn Initiative. PBS KIDS Family and Community Learning is a four-session workshop that engages families and children ages 5–8 in creative coding through the use of the PBS KIDS ScratchJr app.