WEIU Educational Services believes strongly that it is our responsibility to use the power of Public Broadcasting and the educational PBS KIDS programming we air to engage our community and help to improve the literacy and health of the families we serve. It is through this commitment that we provide our Ready To Lead in Literacy Service to Central Illinois.

WEIU Ready To Lead Literacy Service seeks to work with children ages 2-8, their families, child care providers, and educators to increase children’s emergent literacy skills, increase parents’ frequency of reading with children, and Increase parents’ and educators’ use of the Learning Triangle (View, Read, Do) with children.

Since 2002 WEIU TV’s Ready To Lead in Literacy has taken a leadership role in early childhood education with a special emphasis on literacy to help improve the reading skills in the communities we serve. This program focuses on developing reading skills with children ages 2-8 in low-income families who are considered at the poverty level according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Additionally, this program emphasizes research-based educational programming with support materials and services that promote effective use of such programming.

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Research is giving us an extraordinary new understanding of how a child’s mind and brain develop. Babies are born with unique capabilities and we know that the way we parent can influence their development.

By sharing this understanding, we have the potential to change the way parents and caregivers in our communities nurture children. Talaris Institute is a nonprofit organization chartered to advance the knowledge of early learning and the importance of parenting in the first years of life and to bring that information to the public at large in a usable form. Talaris Institute accomplishes this by providing parents with educational materials on social, emotional and cognitive development from birth through age five.

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What Is My Source?

The Public Awareness Initiative (PAI) is a collaborative effort to increase recognition of public media as a trusted, relevant and essential resource in our local communities, and an invaluable addition to our civil society.

To increase the recognition of public broadcasting as a valuable resource that informs, enlightens and enriches our lives, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting has developed the My Source initiative. Through this effort, you are being asked to tell your own unique stories about how WUWF has personally impacted your life and the lives of your friends and families.

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