April 2009

Program Descriptions

May 2009

April 2009

MAY 2009 CABLE PROGRAM DESCRIPTIONS

American Cinema: This series explores film history and American culture through the eyes of over 150 Hollywood insiders, including Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg, Michael Eisner, and many others. American Cinema connects subjects such as history, business, and English with other studies. In addition, it is a perfect vehicle for developing visual and media literacy skills and can be used as a springboard for creative writing endeavors and media production. Produced by the New York Center for Visual History in association with KCET/Los Angeles and the BBC, 1995.

• The Hollywood Style – (Monday 10:00 p.m.)
• The Studio System – (Tuesday 10:00 p.m.)
• The Star – (Thursday 10:00 p.m.)

Aprendos Juntos - A discussion of programs of interest to Spanish-speaking parents (Sunday 11:30 a.m., Monday 7:30 p.m.)

Arts in Every Classroom: Arts in Every Classroom: This series show classroom teachers and arts specialist using the arts in a variety of successful ways: Teachers featured in these programs include specialists in dance, music, theater, and visual art, as well as classroom teachers from kindergarten through fifth grade. Produced by Lavine Production Group in collaboration with KSA-Plus Communications and the Southeast Center for Education in the Arts.

• Expanding the Role of the Arts Specialist – (Monday 5:30 p.m.)
• Teaching Dance – (Tuesday 5:30 p.m.)
• Teaching Music – (Wednesday 5:30 p.m.)
• Teaching Teachers – (Thursday 5:30 p.m.)
• Teaching Visual Arts – (Friday 5:30 p.m.)

A.S.P.I.R.E Vignette: Accelerating Student Progress Increasing Results and Expectations. ASPIRE is an educational improvement model providing high-quality and relevant educational experiences resulting in students being college and career ready.

• DeBakey High School – (Monday 1:30 a.m.)
• Gallegos TAKS Prep – (Wednesday 11:40 a.m.)

Bio-Diversity Rules – (Tuesday 6:45 p.m.)

A Book Adventure: Boliver Boggs – (Monday 10:20 a.m.)

Bridges Academy Children's Music Festival – (Tuesday 2:00 p.m.)

Building the Capacity for Children's Needs – (Thursday & Friday 1:00 p.m., Sunday 2:00 p.m.)

A Class Apart – (Wednesday 7:00 p.m., Thursday 9:00 p.m.)

Clearly About Learning – This program is focusing on HISD's CLEAR Curriculum and how it benefits learning in the classroom. (Friday 8:00 p.m.)

Coalition for Texas Children: Academic Youth Development – (Friday 9:00 a.m.)

Creating a Positive Image for Your School – (Monday 11:00 a.m.)

Dance Montage – A special activity designed to promote the district's Magnet Dance Program and provide students an opportunity to share dance as a learning artistic and cultural experience. (Tuesday 1:00 p.m.)

Democracy in America:

• Citizenship Making Government Work – (Wednesday 6:00 p.m.)
• The Constitution Fixed or Flexible – This program examines the search for balance between the original Constitution and the need to interpret and adjust it to meet the needs of changing times. It explains the original Jeffersonian-Madisonian debate, the concept of the checks and balances, and the stringent procedures for amending the Constitution. (Thursday 6:00 p.m.)
• Federalism vs. States – This program explores federalism as a Constitutional compromise, especially in terms of present day conflicts between people who believe that power should reside primarily in the national government and those who want government authority retained within the states. (Friday 6:00 p.m.)
• Civil Liberties – This program examines the First, Fourth, and Sixth Constitutional Amendments to show how the Bill of Rights protects individual citizens from excessive or arbitrary government interference, yet, contrary to the belief of many American, does not grant unlimited rights (Saturday 6:00 p.m.)
• Civil Rights – This program looks at the nature of the guarantees of political and social equality, and the roles that individuals and government have played in expanding these guarantees to less protected segments of society, such as African Americans, women, and the disabled. (Sunday 6:00 p.m.)

Differentiated Compensation Symposium – (Tuesday & Friday 4:00 p.m.)

Escape School – Safety Above All Else: HISD's number one Core Value. Escape School provides valuable tips for students who may find themselves vulnerable to abduction. A must see for all students and parents. Entertaining yet serious. (Monday 6:45 p.m.)

Faces & Places – HISD Board of Trustee Manuel Rodriguez Jr. visits with Superintendent of Schools Abelardo Saavedra. This program focuses on the Superintendent's career and future plans. (Saturday 8:30 a.m., Sunday 8:30 a.m., Monday 12:30 p.m., Tuesday 8:00 p.m., Friday 7:00 p.m.)

Fine Arts Friday – Performances by HISD school children. (Monday & Thursday 4:00 p.m., Friday 12:30 p.m.)

HISD Board Agenda Review – (Thursday 11:00 a.m., Saturday 1:00 p.m.)

HISD Board Meeting – (LIVE Wednesday 5/13 @ 5:00 p.m., repeat Tuesday 7:00 p.m., Wednesday 1:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m., Saturday 9:00 a.m., Sunday 9:00 p.m.)

HISD Board Workshop: Superintendent Search – (Monday 9:00 p.m., Wednesday 4:00 p.m., Saturday 7:00 p.m., Sunday 1:00 p.m.)

HISD Learning Labs 1 & 2 – Hattie Mae White Educational Support Center informs the community about urban public education and issues relevant to HISD. (Monday & Tuesday 9:00 a.m.)

HISD News Today - Daily activities, events in HISD schools are featured. (Monday - Sundays 8:00 a.m., 12:00 Noon, 6:30 & 8:30 p.m. also Monday-Thursday 11:00 p.m., Tuesday 12:30 p.m.)

HISD Pages of History – compilation of programs describing schools of the past. (Thursday 7:30 p.m.)

HISD Perspectives - A magazine of current activities in the Houston Independent School District (Monday 7:00 p.m., Saturday 9:00 p.m., Sunday 8:00 p.m.)

HISD Sports – A new thirty-minute weekly sports program highlighting local schools produced by Terry Burdick of Internet Athletics and the HISD Athletic Department. (Monday 8:00 p.m., Wednesday 8:00 p.m., Friday 11:30 a.m., Saturday 12:30 p.m. & 8:00 p.m., Sunday 11:00 a.m.)

HISD Success Stories - People and programs that are making a difference... the inner-workings of what works in HISD. (Tuesday 12:30 p.m.)

HSPVA: Performance by the High School for Performance and Visual Arts students'.

• HSPVA Dance Concert 2009 – (Saturday 9:00 p.m.)

Joining Forces with Nature – (Wednesday 6:45 p.m.)

Kennedy Center for Theater Arts – Performance and discussion centered on the arts and the classics. (Sunday 9:00 a.m.)

Lanier Middle School: A production by the Houston ISD Lanier Middle School Students.

• Lanier Drama: Just Another Middle School Play – (Monday 2:00 p.m.)
• Lanier Speech & Debate Team - (Wednesday 12:30 p.m.)
• Lanier Theater Winners – (Tuesday 9:00 p.m.)

Looking at Learning Again 2: This series encourages you to analyze existing theories about how children learn, as well as your own belief's, and then examine how those beliefs might influence your teaching.

• Behind the Design – (Monday 3:00 p.m.)
• Mathematics-A Community Approach – (Tuesday 3:00 p.m.)
• Learning to Share Perspectives – (Thursday 3:00 p.m.)
• Conceptual Change – (Friday 3:00 p.m.)

Long Journey Home – (Thursday 6:45 p.m.)

Math-A-Letics – A fun and exciting mathematics program designed to help K-6 students understand mathematical concepts. (Monday – Sunday 5:00 p.m., Thursday 7:00 p.m.)

Mathematics in Motion – A program on how one Algebra concepts was demonstrated in six different classrooms. (Friday 10:00 a.m.)

Meet the Author: – Noted authors share their approach to research, writing and publications.

• Barnes & Barnes – (Monday 6:00 p.m.)
• Grson Scott Card – (Tuesday 6:00 p.m.)

Name That Book – Students of all ages from HISD schools are taking part in a “battle of the books” that tests both their memory and their reading comprehension skills. They have been reading from lists of up to 45 books provided by HISD Library Services weeks ago and will compete at their various grade levels. (Monday 1:00 p.m.)

NASA Education Hour – A variety of shows including daily launches and educational studies (Sunday 10:00 a.m., Friday 10:00 p.m., Saturday 2:00 p.m. & 10:00 p.m.)

Predators & People – (Friday 6:45 p.m.)

Region Focus –This is a new program, produced in both English and Spanish will highlight schools and activities important to the Region Offices. (Tuesday 10:30 p.m., Friday 7:30 p.m., Sunday 12:30 p.m.)

Science Faction – Hands on science lessons for all ages. (Tuesday –Friday 12:15 p.m., & 8:45 p.m.)

Seasons of Life – Nearly 75 psychologists, sociologists, biologists, and anthropologists present theory, methods, and research in this exploration of the biological, psychological and social “clocks” that are the essence of life-span education. Produced by WQED/Pittsburg and the University of Michigan, 1990. (Wednesday 9:00 p.m.)

Stop Teaching our Kids to Kill – Safe & Drug Free Schools workshop. (Sunday 7:00 p.m.

Student Achievement with Paula Harris – Are our HISD graduates prepared for the rigors of college? HISD Trustee Paula Harris takes a look at how HISD ensures the success of our students at the college and university level. (Tuesday 11:00 a.m.)

Teaching Reading:

• Becoming Readers & Writers – In Shelia Owens's kindergarten class, all students are “readers and writers from day one.” WE see them listen and respond to a story about pumpkins, create sentences using the word wall, and chant a poem on the letter D. Guided by Ms. Owen, they write a group account of the pumpkin life cycle, and then work independently on their writing (Monday 11:30 p.m.)
• Writer's Journal – – In John Sinnett's kindergarten class, routines and classroom management techniques provide a consistent structure for learning. The students, many of whom are from Asian countries, focus on “what good readers do.” They learn “what good writers do” as Mr. Sinnett guides them through independent writing in their personal journals (Tuesday 11:30 p.m.)
• Building Oral Language – Cindy Wilson's kindergarten class promotes oral language development and individual responsibility. The Chinese-and English-speaking students take leadership roles, guiding classmates through daily routines. Through hands-on activities, the students explore celebrations of Valentine's Day and the Chinese New Year. (Wednesday 11:30 p.m.)

Thalia Learns the Details – As the school year starts, Thalia Valdez-a kindergartner at a bilingual school-is beginning to get excited about letters. With the support of her teacher, Jim St. Clair, Thalia steadily learns the basics of reading and writing, such as one-to-one word correspondence, letter sounds, and left-to-right text. Using fine motor skills, she adds text to her inventive drawings. (Thursday 11:30 p.m.)

Values, Valor & Sacrifice: The Veterans of World War II - One-on-one conversations with members of our "Greatest Generation", whose ranks are thinning and whose sacrifices become more valuable with time. Today's youth sincerely needs and deserves their perspective.

• Ralph Lucas – (Thursday 12:30 p.m.)

Viet Voice – News, information and community public affairs to the Vietnamese speaking constituency of Houston ISD. (Thursday 8:00 p.m., Saturday 9:30 p.m.)

World Tour of Language: Learning beginning Spanish and Japanese.

• Japanese Lessons 16-20– (Monday – Friday 8:30 a.m.)

X = Success – Math lessons taught by Houston ISD math teachers. (Monday 10:45 a.m. & 2:38 p.m.)

Comcast Cable channel 18; Phonoscope channel 76;

TV Max channel 96; Suddenlink Cable channel 18

AT&T U-verse channel 99 (click here to learn how to access HISD on U-verse)

(check your local listings)