Documentary released!!!

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Watsonville High School Featured in New Television Documentary

 

Watsonville High School will be among five schools featured in a new one hour documentary, Schools That Change Communities, which will air on KQED Plus, (PBS for the San Francisco and Monterey Bay Areas)  Jan 3, 7 PM as part of beginning its nationwide broadcasts.    Produced by Santa Cruz County resident and former San Jose State Sociology Professor Bob Gliner, this unique, engaging documentary turns the current focus of education on its head.   While most US schools keep their students bottled up in classrooms as a way of increasing test scores, this very upbeat special focuses on a diverse rang of K-12 public schools in five states that instead break down the walls between the school and its neighborhood.   By viewing their communities as classrooms, students are not only invigorated, but also motivated to learn the basics and how to think critically and engage in solving problems they and the larger world they inhabit now face.

 

At Watsonville High School, students in the interdisciplinary Video Academy studying Roosevelt’s New Deal turn their history, English, science and media production classes into a focus on how they can come up with a New Deal for Watsonville – to address the many issues the city faces.

 

KQED Plus will also air Schools That Change Communities Friday, Jan 4, 1 AM; Saturday, Jan 5, 3 PM; Tuesday, Janurary 8, 11 PM and Wed. Jan. 9, 5 AM.    Gliner’s other education focused documentaries include Lessons From The Real World, and Democracy Left Behind both of which enjoyed long runs on PBS stations across the country.   For more about the documentary visit Bob Gliner’s website: Docmakeronline.com.