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	<title>American Graduate - Let's Make it Happen</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[As a community we need to work together to help students stay on the path to graduation. Learn about this national media campaign, funded the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, and how WGTE Public Media is supporting local efforts to tackle the high school dropout crisis.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 18 Apr 2012 16:59:47 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>American Graduate Initiative on WGTE</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[WGTE Public Media has initiated a series of broadcast, online and community activities as part of €American Graduate: Let€s Make It Happen,€ a national public media initiative funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB) to help Toledo and other communities across America to address the high school dropout crisis. WGTE is bringing attention to the Schools as Hubs program developed by the Toledo Public Schools and the United Way of Greater Toledo.

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	<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 15:42:56 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>WGTE Town Hall: American Graduate -</title>
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	<description><![CDATA[WGTE presented this live Town Hall program "American Graduate - Finding Solutions for Toledo's Kids"
We also broadcast special editions of "Deadline Now," focusing on graduation rates and community solutions in October and December.
During the program, the host, Bill Harris, spoke with numerous guests including:

Dr. Jerome Pecko, Superintendent, Toledo Public Schools
Jim Gault, Chief Academic Officer, Toledo Public Schools
Greg Braylock, Educational Specialist, United Way of Greater Toledo
Sue Rowe, Teacher &amp; Innovation Specialist, Toledo Public Schools
Dr. Romulus Durant, Assistant Superintendent, Elementary Education, Toledo Public Schools

This video is close to an hour long and the High Definition version will take a bit to load. You may downgrade to the a lower quality version by lcicking the HD button on the video window in the upper right hand corner.
The American Graduate Initiative
WGTE in conjunction with Toledo Public Schools and the United Way of Greater Toledo are providing leadership to a network of community partners to build awareness of the dropout crisis in our area.&nbsp; American Graduate is a public media initiative funded by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting to help local communities across America find solutions to address the dropout crisis. The initiative builds on public media's long-standing commitment to education by convening conversations and strengthening partnerships between public radio and television stations and local schools, businesses and community organizations to help students stay on the path to a high school diploma.
To find out more, call WGTE's Educational Resource Center at 419-380-4600.<br/><br/><a href="http://www.wgte.org/wgte/store/cart_add.asp?item_id=10594">Purchase</a>]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 15 Nov 2011 11:01:31 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>American Graduate:  Community Hubs</title>
	<link>http://www.wgte.org/wgte/item.asp?item_id=10513</link>
	<description><![CDATA[WGTE brings attention to the Schools as Hubs initiative. This unique   partnership, between Toledo Public Schools and the United Way of   Greater Toledo, aims to increase high school graduation rates by   surrounding each student with a stronger community. When the school   becomes the heart of a neighborhood - students, parents and neighbors   all contribute to the well-being of each and every child.This video explains the program in place in the Leverette and Robinson schools.
Featuring:Bill Kitson, President and CEO, United Way of Greater ToledoJim Gault, Chief Academic Officer, Toledo Public SchoolsDr. Jerome Pecko, Superintendent, Toledo Public SchoolsGreg Braylock, Education Specialist, United Way Greater Toledo]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 7 Nov 2011 11:12:51 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>American Graduate:  Graduation Coaches</title>
	<link>http://www.wgte.org/wgte/item.asp?item_id=10297</link>
	<description><![CDATA[WGTE brings attention to the Graduation Coaches initiative. United Way AmeriCorps members  serve Toledo in a very targeted  way, furthering United Way€s education  work by serving as Graduation  Coaches in Toledo Public Schools. These  coaches guide and support  students in developing a tangible plan to  achieve graduation in four  years, prepared for the next step. AmeriCorps recruits and coordinates members while also promoting volunteerism and personal development. Featuring:Bill Kitson, President and CEO, United Way of Greater ToledoJim Gault, Chief Academic Officer, Toledo Public SchoolsDr. Jerome Pecko, Superintendent, Toledo Public SchoolsGreg Braylock, Education Specialist, United Way Greater Toledo]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Tue, 11 Oct 2011 19:00:02 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>American Graduate: Social Emotional Learning</title>
	<link>http://www.wgte.org/wgte/item.asp?item_id=10262</link>
	<description><![CDATA[WGTE brings attention to the Social/Emotionalinitiative.  Toledo Public Schools and the United Way are making sure teachers are being trained in a more comprehensive way. Educators are encouraged to learn about the family, challenges and home life of the children in their care. The academic environment takes the child's larger environment into account, helping the educator make better, more individualized choices.
Featuring:Bill Kitson, President and CEO, United Way of Greater ToledoJim Gault, Chief Academic Officer, Toledo Public SchoolsGreg Braylock, Education Specialist, United Way Greater ToledoSue Rowe, Teacher/Innovation Specialist, Toledo Public SchoolsDr. Romules Durant, Asst. Supt., Elementary Education, TPS]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Fri, 7 Oct 2011 15:35:37 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>American Graduate: 5,000 Readers and Tutors</title>
	<link>http://www.wgte.org/wgte/item.asp?item_id=10254</link>
	<description><![CDATA[WGTE brings attention to the 5,000 Readers and Tutors initiative. Become a  volunteer reader or tutor. You can play an important role in increasing a  child€s academic success and engagement in learning. That€s why United  Way, Partners in Education, Read for Literacy, and Toledo Public Schools  have teamed up to recruit 5,000 Readers and Tutors. Call the United Way at 2-1-1. 
Featuring:Bill Kitson, President and CEO, United Way of Greater ToledoJim Gault, Chief Academic Officer, Toledo Public SchoolsGreg Braylock, Education Specialist, United Way Greater Toledo]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Thu, 6 Oct 2011 19:00:02 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>American Graduate: Schools as Hubs</title>
	<link>http://www.wgte.org/wgte/item.asp?item_id=10204</link>
	<description><![CDATA[WGTE brings attention to the Schools as Hubs initiative. This unique  partnership, between Toledo Public Schools and the United Way of  Greater Toledo, aims to increase high school graduation rates by  surrounding each student with a stronger community. When the school  becomes the heart of a neighborhood - students, parents and neighbors  all contribute to the well-being of each and every child.
Featuring:Bill Kitson, President and CEO, United Way of Greater ToledoJim Gault, Chief Academic Officer, Toledo Public SchoolsDr. Jerome Pecko, Superintendent, Toledo Public SchoolsGreg Braylock, Education Specialist, United Way Greater Toledo]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 3 Oct 2011 15:38:09 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>American Graduate Inititative on the Radio</title>
	<link>http://www.wgte.org/wgte/item.asp?item_id=10068</link>
	<description><![CDATA[How can our community increase high school graduation rates?WGTE, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Toledo Public Schools and the United Way of Greater Toledo are teaming up to inform the community about the variety of innovative initiativesto improve student education in our region.Listen to these leaders in education discuss some of the initiatives and findout more by visiting http://www.wgte.org/graduateBill Kitson, United Way, discusses the AmeriCorp Graduation Coaches programJames Gault, Toledo Public Schools, discusses Schools as Hubs programGreg Braylock, United Way, discusses the 5,000 Readers and Tutors program]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 12 Sep 2011 11:17:10 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>Eggs and Issues: Workforce Transformation through Education</title>
	<link>http://www.wgte.org/wgte/item.asp?item_id=11501</link>
	<description><![CDATA[The Toledo Chamber of Commerce and Knowledgestream presented a live webstream of the first 2012 installment of the Eggs 'n' Issues series of community discussions. The "Learning to Work Series" will spotlight the progress made by the Toledo Public Schools during the first year of their innovative "Transformation Plan." Two different panels were featured to discuss the plan's successes and potential future opportunities.Panelists included:Dr. Jerome Pecko- TPS SuperintendentJim Gault- TPS Chief Academic OfficerBrian Murphy- TPS Assistant SuperintendentDr. Romules Durant- TPS Assistant SuperintendentTodd Tibbits, President &amp; CEO- YMCA of Greater ToledoGreg Braylock, Director Of Education- United Way of ToledoDave Wehrmeister, Executive Director- Boys &amp; Girls Club of Toledo]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Mon, 14 May 2012 16:29:53 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>Deadline Now: Education and Graduation Initiatives in Toledo - Part 1</title>
	<link>http://www.wgte.org/wgte/item.asp?item_id=10300</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Education and Graduation Initiatives in Toledo
Friday, October 14, 2011
Dr.  Romules Durant, Assistant Superintendent for Toledo Public Schools  (TPS), James Gault, Chief Academic Officer for TPS and Greg Braylock,  Education Specialist for United Way of Greater Toledo are this week's  guests. TPS, United Way of Greater Toledo and WGTE are among the  community partners working to build awareness of and create solutions to  the drop-out crisis in our area.Toledo Public Schools, United Way of Greater Toledo and WGTE are currently deploying initiatives aimed at increasing community involvement and educational stewardship. The launch of the "Schools as Hubs" initiative is an effort to battle the drop out crisis by organizing community resources around student success, with an integrated focus on academics and services to lead to improved student learning, stronger families and healthier communities. WGTE wants to hear from you, our community, to encourage discussion and bring awareness to this effort. Please take a moment to share your reflections on the following questions:What actions can community members take to identify, and implement, solutions which address the high school drop out crisis?What can community members do to ensure the Schools as Hubs initiative is successful?Join the discussion. Please post your comments below.On the web: www.wgte.org/graduateOn the web: www.tps.orgOn the web: www.unitedwaytoledo.orgThis program is part of American Graduate: Let€s Make It Happen, a public media initiative made possible by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.Here are Jack Lessenberry's Final Thoughts for this edition of Deadline Now:In today€s world, even a college degree is sometimes not enough to guarantee a young person a job, let alone and a smooth career path. But without a high school degree, nobody in the twenty-first century has any real shot at a fulfilling job.
Which makes it all that much more urgent and crucial that we do something about the dropout rate. Now, if you are a mature adult you may be baffled that anybody would voluntarily drop out of high school. But teenagers don€t always have the wisdom they need.
And in many cases, they don€t have the necessary support at home they need to get through school. Now if you don€t think this concerns all of us, you are dead wrong. I don€t know how any of us can feel secure in a world where there is a steadily growing underclass of unemployable people who feel alienated from society.
That€s in part why the foundation started by the richest man in the world -- Microsoft€s Bill Gates -- has partnered with the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the America€s Promise Alliance to try and do something about it.
They€ve launched an initiative called American Graduate -- Make it Happen -- to try to do something about the dropout crisis in this country. Locally, United Way of Greater Toledo has been leading the way in an initiative designed to turn public schools into community hubs -- in other words, neighborhood centers.
The idea is to help build community centers that are welcoming places for the whole neighborhood to come to, not just prison-like structures where kids are confined from eight to three every weekday, whether they are learning anything or not.
Students could come there for enriched educational experiences and other extra-curricular activities. But parents and other adults could also come for a wide assortment of reasons, from interacting with their kids€ education to medical and dental services.
Where this has been tried elsewhere, it has clearly led to improved student learning, healthier families and stronger communities. Naturally, there will be those who have doubts.
But there is no doubt that what we have now isn€t working -- and anything with a reasonable chance of success may deserve a try. Once again, it is not only our children€s futures that are depending on it, but our own, as a society and a nation.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 12 Oct 2011 16:45:51 EST</pubDate>
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	<title>Deadline Now: Education and Graduation Initiatives in Toledo Part 2</title>
	<link>http://www.wgte.org/wgte/item.asp?item_id=10820</link>
	<description><![CDATA[Friday, December 16, 2011In the second edition of "Deadline Now" examining efforts to boost high school graduation rates in the greater Toledo area, Bill Kitson, President and CEO of United Way of Greater Toledo, Dr.  Romules Durant, Assistant Superintendent for Toledo Public Schools (TPS)  and James Gault, Chief Academic Officer for TPS, join host Jack  Lessenberry.
On the web: www.wgte.org/graduateOn the web: www.unitedwaytoledo.orgOn the web: www.tps.org
About this program: Toledo  Public Schools, United Way of Greater Toledo and WGTE are currently  deploying initiatives aimed at increasing community involvement and  educational stewardship. The launch of the "Schools as Hubs" initiative  is an effort to battle the drop out crisis by organizing community  resources around student success, with an integrated focus on academics  and services to lead to improved student learning, stronger families and  healthier communities. WGTE wants to hear from you, our  community, to encourage discussion and bring awareness to this effort.  As you watch this episode of "Deadline Now," please take a moment to  share your reflections on the following questions:What actions can community members take to identify, and implement, solutions which address the high school drop out crisis?What can community members do to ensure the Schools as Hubs initiative is successful?Here are Jack Lessenberry's Final Thoughts for this edition of "Deadline Now:"My guess is that if you, your spouse or especially one of your children were diagnosed with some form of early stage cancer, you wouldn€t say, €well, we€ll have to see if we can afford to treat it. We€ve got other things we want to spend money on, you know.€ No, my guess is that you€d somehow find the way to get your child the treatment he or she needed, by any means necessary. Well, we have a cancer growing in our society. It is the tens or hundreds of thousands of young people who leave high school, whether they have a degree or not, without the skills they need in today€s world. Those skills should include the ability to next get some form of higher education. Not necessarily a conventional four-year college, but some form of advanced training as an electrician, say, or a welder or an assistant in a doctor€s office or a technician in a hospital. Ideally, every student should come out of school ready to embark on the next stage of their pre-professional life. But sadly, that is all too often not the case. Too many students don€t have a clue about what to do, the skills to take them to the next level, or somebody to mentor and help them get there. For too many, money is also a problem. Most of us know these facts, even it isn€t comfortable to think about them. But what we may not realize is this: No matter how comfortable we may be personally, how secure can any of us be when we have a vast and growing underclass in this society?  How healthy can our society be when it contains thousands who have no legitimate hope of sharing in the American dream? For me, that is potentially more scary than terrorism. The Toledo Public Schools and the United Way are trying to do something about this. With help from Microsoft€s Bill Gates, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting and the America€s Promise Alliance, they are participating in an initiative called American Graduate € Let's Make it Happen -- to try to do something about conquering the dropout crisis in this country.  Locally, they have an experimentalinitiative designed to turn public schools into community hubs -- or, in other words, neighborhood centers. There are skeptics. But in other states, this has led to improved grades, healthier families and, eventually, stronger communities. And that€s something better than anything money can buy.]]></description>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:14:48 EST</pubDate>
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