Akron/Kent: Region 2

Jeff Good Director of Educational Services PBS 45 & 49 1750 Campus Center Drive Kent, OH 44240 (330) 677-4549 good@wneo.org

For over 20 years, PBS 45/49 has been training teachers to use the latest educational technologies in their classrooms (computers, the Internet, distance learning and more). Every year, our staff trains over 2,200 educators to use these tools and to share them with their students.

PBS 45/49 serves students and educators in eight Ohio counties: Carroll, Columbiana, Mahoning, Portage, Stark, Summit, Trumbull and Wayne.

WNEO Department of Educational Services provides:
•  Technology training for teachers
•  Web-based projects on a wide range of academic subjects
•  Distance learning projects
•  Award-winning local instructional television programming
•  Instructional Television (ITV) schedule
•  Multimedia instructional content 

Instructional Television for Proficiency Test Preparation: Educators use PBS 45 & 49’s locally produced multimedia projects to help their students prepare for and pass Ohio’s proficiency tests. Overall, 5,800 teachers with 76,000 students use our ITV services regularly.

Ready To Learn and Ohio Ready To Learn Services: Since 1998, the organization’s RTL staff has presented over 1,040 free workshops, reaching over 12,000 childcare providers and parents and serving more than 70,000 children.