Twenty Eight Teachers Selected to Attend C-SPAN/Bright House Networks 2008 National Educators' Conference
Middle and high school educators to focus on teaching 2008 election with C-SPAN's free education courses.
WASHINGTON, DC – (May 2008) –Twenty-eight educators from across the nation were selected to attend the first-ever C-SPAN / Bright House Networks 2008 National Educators’ Conference being held in Washington D.C., Thursday and Friday, July 17-18, 2008.
The conference brings together middle and high school educators from communities served by Bright House Networks. Teachers competed from schools in the Bright House Networks service areas and were selected for participation by a committee of C-SPAN and Bright House employees. Participating teachers receive roundtrip airfare and two nights’ stay in a D.C. hotel.
“For over 20 years, Bright House Networks has been contributing to schools and providing teachers with tools and content with which they can enhance the learning experience for students in their classrooms. We have also strongly recognized and rewarded teachers who use cable in the classroom creatively through initiatives like our Star Teacher Awards program. This special partnership with C-Span reflects another way in which we carryout our philanthropic mission to support education and shape the minds of future generations,” said Robert Miron, Chairman and CEO of Bright House Networks.
This national conference serves three purposes: to introduce participants to C-SPAN’s Campaign 2008 television programming and web-based education content; to allow participants to share ideas for incorporating C-SPAN resources into their teaching; and to develop strategies for bringing the Campaign 2008 resources to other educators in their districts.
“Bob Miron and his wife, Diane, have always had an extraordinary interest in education. Teachers clearly make a difference to them and to us,” said Brian P. Lamb, Chairman and CEO of C-SPAN. “That’s why it made sense to ask Bright House to co-host our first-ever conference of this sort. We hope it will be a model for future educator conferences of this kind.”
About C-SPAN
C-SPAN, the political network of record, was created by America’s cable companies as a public service in 1979. C-SPAN is currently available in nearly 92.3 million households. For more information about C-SPAN, visit www.C-SPAN.org.
About Bright House Networks
Bright House Networks is the nation’s 6th largest MSO with 2.4 million customers in several large markets including Bakersfield, California; Birmingham, Alabama; Detroit, Michigan; Indianapolis, Indiana; Orlando, Florida (Central Florida Division) and Tampa Bay, Florida along with several other smaller systems in Alabama and the Florida Panhandle. The high-growth Tampa/Central Florida markets are contiguous and form one of the country’s largest cable clusters. Bright House Networks corporate locations are in Orlando, Florida and Syracuse, New York.
About C-SPAN Classroom
C-SPAN Classroom, www.c-spanclassroom.org, is a free membership service dedicated to support educators’ use of C-SPAN programming in their classes or for research. Members may access free, downloadable C-SPAN video clips for use in the classroom that are selected from signature programs and event coverage. C-SPAN Classroom has reached more than one million students since its inception in 1987.
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