ABSTRACT
The grant has provided the funding and strategic direction that's enabled public media to innovate with how children's educational media is produced and delivered, how it's utilized across learning environments, and how caregivers can use it to support and assess children's learning. For public media, this national-local infrastructure helps to support a highly interdependent way of delivering on its educational mission and has resulted in its own set of engagement innovations that live at the intersection of content, community, and collaboration. From a community innovation standpoint, this growing network of community collaboratives is helping to bring new engagement practices to light, fortifying the capacity of local stations and partners, and taking public media's community and dual-generation family engagement efforts to a new level. The rapid pace with which technology changes often exceeds the ability of the people institutions to leverage its many affordances.
