Class Is In Session
These 60-minute, standards-aligned sessions are delivered directly in classrooms and community settings and are scheduled across multiple districts and partner sites each year.
What are Power Hours?
These are the trusted grown-ups in a child’s world — however their family is shaped — who pack snacks, negotiate bedtime, and keep small humans alive.
What are caregivers?
This is how Nine PBS understands community priorities, creates content and resources, distributes content with intention, and assesses community impact.
What is our model for engagement?
What is our educator-driven “unconference” where participants choose the topics and collaborate with peers in an open, supportive environment?
Nine PBS Edcamp
Who is an avid soccer player?
Who is Vin?
We use these metrics to decide whether to work with these schools.
What are the highest need, highest impact?
What free digital platform provides educators and caregivers with classroom-ready videos, lesson plans, and interactive resources aligned to standards?
What is PBS LearningMedia?
This initiative involves all of Nine PBS, as well as a network of trusted partners, to support day-to-day social, emotional, and cognitive needs of kids, caregivers, and educators.
What is mental well-being?
What do we call the specific programs or content pieces that must be completed to fulfill the terms of a grant agreement?
Deliverables
Who likes to hike with their dogs?
Who is Brooke?
What do we call trainings or workshops that support educators' growth?
What is professional development?
Before Kindergarten, we work alongside caregivers to help children develop this foundation that sets them up for success in the classroom.
What is school readiness?
In addition to Digital Listening, this is one of the tools that help Nine PBS engage the community, partners, and stakeholders in meaningful conversations to get a pulse on the priorities of the St. Louis region.
What is convenings?
Who serves as the trusted representatives of Nine PBS, engaging directly with schools and community partners to advance our mission on the ground?
Nine PBS Educators and Raymond Wittcoff Community Engagement Fellows
Who takes an annual Disney trip?
Who is Arionna?
This on-air content focuses on sustained instructional impact over multiple weeks.
What is Teaching in Room 9?
What do we call our one-hour deep dive where educators and caregivers build confidence using Nine PBS apps and digital tools?
What is an Appy Hour?
With this initiative, Nine PBS is having to roll up our sleeves and learn about the innovative and traditional ways food reaches our plates in both urban and rural parts of the region.
What is agriculture?
What framework guides our approach to building, strengthening, and prioritizing relationships that matter most?
What is the Partnership Development Cycle?
Who has kids and how many?
Who is Arionna (2) and Vin (1)?
How many districts are we currently partnering with in the 2026-2027 school year?
What is 30?
Nine PBS partners with trusted places like schools, libraries, and community groups to better reach and support caregivers — these are called this.
What are community partners?
As one of our first convening groups, this board has “connections, expertise, or interest in or related to our community priorities” and was originally a requirement of CPB (RIP).
What is the Community Advisory Board?
What team somehow manages to build the partnership, write the grant, teach the program, support content, and report the results — sometimes all in the same week?!
Who is the Impact Team?
Who has an aviation background?
Who is Brooke?