Instructional Content

WXXI Instructional Content (Laptop with person typing and icons of books and educational symbols flying off the screen

The New York State Public Media Instructional Content is a New York State Education Department funded initiative that has called on NYS public media organizations to help address educational needs in the classroom and in the community. The initiative included taking on-air productions and making them available online, providing curation of instructional resources to support on-air and online programming and resources. WXXI Education built a new resource site to support learning.

On-Demand Programs, Video and Resources

Student Mental Health Matters: A Toolkit for Educators

Student Mental Health Matters Educator Toolkit

(foreground) Laniyah Rand and Jah'Corey Chapman, and (background) Yackatherine Tirado and Je'Carl Hill on "Connections with Evan Dawson" on Thursday, August 31, 2023

WXXI News Coverage of Student Mental Health Stories & Talk Shows On-Demand

Hiding in Plain Sight: Teen Mental Health

Hiding in Plain Sight On-Demand

Our Turn To Talk Film

Our Turn to Talk On-Demand

Speaking Grief Photo of young person and dog walking down the beach

Speaking Grief Documentary & Resources On-Demand

Now Return Us To Normal

Now Return Us to Normal On-Demand

Emma sitting cross-legged under a tree, reaching toward the sunlight. A suicide attempt left Emma paralyzed but propelled her on a mission to help others.

My Ascension • WXXI-TV

01/18/2025 11:00 pm WXXI TV

A overhead view of a neighborhood with a mountain range behind it.

Facing Suicide On-Demand

A Mother looks sadly at her laptop screen, leaning on her clasped hands. Title reads: Scattering CJ: The Loss of One Becomes The Journey of Many

Scattering CJ On-Demand

Veteran and Their Child

PTSD and Mental Illness – After War and Right of Mind On-Demand

Faded color photo of two young children

Our Time: Teen Mental Health and Suicide – Under the Wire & Surviving On-Demand

Photos and candles of those being remembered

Teen Mental Health and Suicide in Black Families On-Demand

Adolescent Girl sitting on a swing out in nature, scrolling her phone

Your Fantastic Mind: Adolescent Mental Health Crisis On-Demand

Alma's Way: Alma's extended family and friends have a meal around a table.

Alma’s Way: Videos, Games & Activities

Buster, D.W. and Arthur walking to school

Arthur: Videos, Games & Activities

Bright by Text

Bright By Text: For Parents of 0-11 year olds

Clifford the Big Red Dog and friends reading at a picnic out of doors

Clifford the Big Red Dog: Games, Videos & Activities

Cyberchase

Cyberchase: Videos, Games & Activities

Daniel Tiger For Parents App-Pictured Daniel Tiger and his parents

Daniel Tiger’s App Helps Parents Teach About Feelings

Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood

Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood: Videos, Games & Activities

Dinosaurs Riding on the Train

Dinosaur Train: Videos, Games & Activities

Engineering Design Process

Engineering & STEM Challenges

Hero Elementary characters

Hero Elementary: Games, Videos & Activities

Jamming on the Job Two music performers and a animated boombox are pictured

Jamming on the Job Podcast Series

Let's Go Luna characters from the PBS KIDS series

Let’s Go Luna: Games, Videos & Activities

Let's Learn

Let’s Learn

Molly of Denali Podcast

Molly of Denali Podcast:

Molly of Denali: Games, Videos, Podcast & Activities

Nature Cat

Nature Cat: Songs, Videos & Activities

Odd Squad: Games, Videos, Podcast & Activities

Parenting Minutes

Parenting Minutes

PBS Family Night: Intergenerational mixed race family with book and popcorn getting ready to watch PBS Family Night specials

PBS KIDS Family Night

PBS KIDS for Parents in English & Spanish! / ¡PBS KIDS para padres en inglés y español!

PBS KIDS for Parents Play & Learn Science! PBS KIDS making ramps and playing with flashlights

PBS KIDS Play & Learn Science Resources

PBS KIDS Talk About: Race and Racism

PBS KIDS: Talk About: Race and Racism

Pinkalicious & Peterrific

Pinkalicious and Peterrific: Videos, Games & Activities

Work It Out Wombats Podcast

Podcasts to Listen To With Your Kids

Ready Jet Go! Animated characters pictured

Ready Jet Go!: Videos, Games & Activities

Rosie's Rules: Rosie pictured holding her cat in her home

Rosie’s Rules: Videos, Games & Activities

I Spy with Daniel Tiger

Scavenger Hunts with PBS KIDS

Sesame Street Muppet Characters

Sesame Street: Songs, Activities & Videos

Sid the Science Kid

Sid the Science Kid: Games, Videos & Activities

Splash and Bubbles

Splash and Bubbles: Songs, Videos & Activities

Family Break with WXXI and URMC

Take A Family Break Videos, Activities & Songs

When Something Scary Happens- Pictured Arthur being hugged by his mom and Daniel Tiger hugging his teddy bear

Talking with Kids About News & Emergencies

The Cat in the Hat Knows A Lot About That!

The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!™: Songs, Videos & Activities

Wild Kratts characters in the woods

Wild Kratts: Videos, Games & Activities

Word Girl and Captain Huggy Face pictured

WordGirl: Videos, Games & Activities

Work It Out Wombats

Work It Out Wombats Videos, Games, and Songs

Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum PBS KIDS

Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum: Games, Videos & Activities

Student wearing safety glasses at a workbench

Advantages of Career Technical Education Programs

Classroom of students

Beyond Graduation On-Demand

Career Center Series

Career Center Series On-Demand

Careers Using Drones On-Demand

Changing Gears: Roadtrip Nation

Changing Gears On-Demand

Construction Careers Through YouthBuild Rochester On-Demand

Person Profiled in More Than Statistics

Dropping Back In (In English & Español) On-Demand

Rodney Hay, Electrical Mechanical Technician at Love Beets

Electrical Mechanical Technician at Love Beets USA

Empowered State: 3 Youth from Roadtrip Nation standing on a bridge

Empowered State On-Demand

Man standing in front a a house

Serving Change On-Demand

Future West: Roadtrip Nation

Future West On-Demand

Intelligent Lives: Opening Doors

Intelligent Lives: Opening Doors Playlist On-Demand

Journey to Jobs photo of worker in a hard hat looking at plans

Journey To Jobs On-Demand

Life Hackers

Life Hackers On-Demand

Line Supervisor

Line Supervisor at O-AT-KA

Food technologist looking at liquid in a beaker

New Product Food Technologist at Love Beets USA

Ready To Rise: Roadtrip Nation

One Step Closer On-Demand

Operations Supervisor at work

Operations Supervisor at O-AT-KA: Working Your Way Up

PBS LearningMedia New York

PBS LearningMedia Career Exploration by Sector

PBS LearningMedia New York

PBS LearningMedia: New York’s Largest Classroom

An optician working in commercial optics manufacturing.

Precision Optics Manufacturing Careers On-Demand

Ready to Rise On-Demand

Resources: Career Exploration Systems

GCC, MCC and Finger Lakes Community Colleges Logos

Resources: Community Colleges

Group gathered around a work table.

Resources: High School Career Technical Education

Resources: New York State Apprenticeship Programs

Career One Stop

Resources: One Stop Centers

Resources: Rochester Exploring

3 People Featured in Being You Episode of Roadtrip Nation

Roadtrip Nation: Being You On-Demand Career Exploration

Skill Powered: A Roadtrip Nation Special

Skill Powered On-Demand

State of Change: A Roadtrip Nation Special

State of Change On-Demand

The Next Mission with scene looking at the horizon

The Next Mission On-Demand

Student Nurse Practicing Assisting a Patient

Training as a Nurse in High School & Beyond

Training as an Automotive Technician in High School

Student training to be an electrician

Training as an Electrician in High School

Machining Class with Teacher and Students Around a Table

Training for a Machining Career in High School

Student welding

Training for a Welding Career in High School

Student working with piping

Training for an HVAC Career in High School

Veterans Coming Home: Careers Pictured A Women Veteran in an office

Veterans Coming Home: Careers On-Demand

Warehouse Manager

Warehouse Operator at Love Beets USA

Women in Craft Brewing Careers

Shawn Dunwoody in front of artwork

Art and Activism Video Short

Asian Americans with a montage of Asian Americans in the background

Asian Americans PBS LearningMedia Collection

Asian Pacific American: Our Experience

Asian Pacific American Our Experience: Local Stories On-Demand

Before They Take Us Away: A car drives across a vast desert landscape to represent the few Japanese Americans that were able to relocate before the forced relocation to camps during WWII on the west coast of the United States.

Before They Take Us Away: On-Demand

Sesame Street Explaining What is Race

Coming Together: Sesame Street Resources on Racial Literacy

Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond

Asian American Stories of Resilience and Beyond On-Demand

Four Four Two F Company at War

Four-Four-Two, F Company at War On-Demand

Injustice At Home: Japanese Internment Camp Painting

Injustice At Home: Classroom Collection On-Demand

Musicians of Rochester: Leah Ou who performs under the name Pipa is one of the musicians featured.

Musicians of Asian & Pacific Islander Heritage: Classical On-Demand

Asian American Native Hawaiian Pacific Islander Month

PBS KIDS Celebrate Asian Pacific American Heritage On-Demand

Remembering Pearl Harbor Electronic Field Trip On-Demand

Sesame Street Muppet Characters

Sesame Street: See Us Coming Together Special

Becoming Frederick Douglass with a photo of Frederick Douglass

Becoming Frederick Douglass Educational Resources

Black man facing away wrapped in a U.S. flag with some victims names written on the inside of it that have died due to racism and display backwards on the flag.

Black History & Culture Video Playlist On-Demand

Celebrate Some African American Contributions

Celebrating African-American Contributions On-Demand

Code Switch NPR Podcast on Race, Politics and Culture

Code Switch Podcast from NPR

Photo: Delores Jackson Radney, Rochester Kwanzaa Coalition

Cultural Expressions: Kwanzaa On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Dreamland Musical Group Performing on a Stage

Dream Land: Little Rock’s West 9th Street On-Demand

Driving While Black On-Demand

Fight The Power How Hip Hop Changed the World

Fight the Power: How Hip Hop Changed the World Education Resources

Fighting on Both Fronts: The Story of the 370th

Fighting on Both Fronts: The Story of the 370th On-Demand

Flight to Freedom On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Photo of T-town

Goin’ Back to T-Town On-Demand

Martin Luther King Jr. Making Speech

Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Classroom Resources

Prelude The Legacy of Garth Fagan Dance

Prelude: The Legacy of Garth Fagan Dance On-Demand

WXXI Productions

East Lake Meadows Public Housing

Redlining, Housing and Civil Rights Classroom Resources

Searching for Timbuctoo Poster

Searching for Timbuctoo On-Demand:

Zora Neale Hurston

Zora Neale Hurston: Claiming a Space On-Demand

Back to School with PBS KIDS

Back to School Resources

An still of the animated character: brother

Brother On-Demand

Tree representing Finding Your Roots

Classroom Uses for Genealogy, History and DNA

Students Preparing From Graduation with College Degrees Earned in a Prison setting

College Behind Bars On-Demand

Sourdough

Culinary Arts: Cooking, Baking, & Kitchen Science Education Resources:

Design Squad Inventing Green

Design Squad: Inventing Green Resources

NY Women's Suffrage

Discovering New York Suffrage Stories On-Demand

Donkey Hodie

Donkey Hodie: Songs, Videos & Activities

Safe Haven

Education Resources for Teaching About Save Haven

PBS LearningMedia

Education Resources on Race, Racism, Civil Rights, & Diversity

Elinor Wonders Why

Elinor Wonders Why: Songs, Videos & Activities

The Path to the Catcher in the Rye infographic - PBS LearningMedia

English Language Arts Education Resources:

Play and Learn Anytime with PBS KIDS Apps Download Now PBS Characters pictured.

Free PBS KIDS Apps

Uninvited

Invasive Species: Education Resources

Latino Americans

Latino Americans Series Classroom Resources

Math+Arts

Math Education Resources:

Multilinual Public Media Resources

Multilingual Public Media Education Resources

Native America Classroom Resources

Native America in the Classroom

Nature Activities: From Screen to Green:

Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Not For Ourselves Alone: The Story of Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton Video Clips

Addiction from NOVA

PBS LearningMedia Resources on Substance Abuse

Peg Plus Cat

Peg + Cat: Songs, Videos & Activities

Raising the Future: The Child Care Crisis from PBS Newshour

Raising the Future, The Child Care Crisis On-Demand

Physical Science

Science Education Resources

Sci Girls with real girls and an animated character standing together on rocks in a lake.

SciGirls Resources

Sesame Street In Communities Digital Story Books

Sesame Street in Communities:

Muppet family hugging each other

Sesame Street in Communities: Helping Families Cope with Parental Addiction

Compass laying on a map

Social Studies Education Resources:

Bringing the Universe to America's Classrooms

Space Education Resources: (K-12)

Kearstin Piper Brown

Suffrage Moments Educational Resource:

Summer of Adventures PBS KIDS

Summer Learning with PBS KIDS

Teaching Women’s Suffrage History

Age of Nature

The Age of Nature Education Collections

The Gene: An Intimate History Presented by Ken Burns

The Gene: An Intimate History On-Demand & Education Resources

The U.S. and the Holocaust Film

The U.S. and the Holocaust Educational Resources:

Unladylike Collection

Unladylike Collection On-Demand

Unstoppable: The Road to Women's Rights

Unstoppable The Road to Womens’ Rights E-Fieldtrip:

Wild Kratts and the Grasshopper

WXXI Community Observation Challenge

WXXI Education

WXXI Education E-News & Social Media

Jen Indovina interviewing an athletic trainer

Athletic Trainer: I Can Be What?!

Jen Indovina is making chocolate.

Chocolatier: I Can Be What?!

Jen Indovina explores dancing.

Dancer: I Can Be What?!

What?! Jen Indovina rolling a truck tire for the mechanic career segment

Diesel Mechanic: I Can Be What?!

What?! Jen Indovina explores electricity

Electrician: I Can Be What?!

What?! Jen Indovina explores the career of helicopter pilot

Helicopter Pilot: I Can Be What?!

What?! Jen Indovina holds up 2 kittens as she explores being a vet.

Veterinarian: I Can Be What?!

Jen Indovina explores welding

Welder: I Can Be What?!

Jen Indovina releases a banded duck as

Wildlife Technician: I Can Be What?!

Jen Indovina interviews a Reptile Keeper at the zoo.

Zookeepers: I Can Be What?!

On Two Fronts: Latinos and Vietnam

On Two Fronts: Latinos & Vietnam On-Demand

A Latino man stands in front of a map of Latin America

Why Do We Say “Latino”?

Pictured: Nine-year-old Lia shares her story in an intimate exploration of the struggles and choices facing transgender kids and their parents.

Growing Up Trans: On-Demand

American Buffalo

American Buffalo PBS LearningMedia Collection

Gannagaro On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Native Way Forward

Native Way Forward: Roadtrip Nation On-Demand

The People's Protectors

The People’s Protectors: On-Demand

Urban Rez Man stands with his arm outstretched looking towards the horizon over a canyon

Urban Rez: On-Demand

Warrior in Two Worlds On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Warrior Tradition

Warrior Tradition On-Demand

15 Miles on the Erie Canal On-Demand

WXXI Productions

A Gathering of Heros

A Gathering of Heroes On-Demand

A Good Life

A Good Life • On-Demand

WXXI Productions

A Walk Through Mount Hope Cemetery • On-Demand

WXXI Productions

American Veteran Keep It Close [Picture 20 veterans today holding portraits of themselves in military uniforms]

American Veteran: Keep It Close On-Demand

Photos of headphones and CJ Scarlet, holding a framed photo of her in military service

American Veteran: Unforgettable Stories Podcast Series

American War Stories: Vietnam On-Demand

Canal Towns On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Canine and Soldier

Canine Soldier: The Militarization of Love On-Demand

Women's History Month

Celebrating Women’s History On-Demand

01/16/2026 11:59 pm

Crucible of Freedom On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Cropped shot of a football player in a navy blue jersey holding a football

Concrete Gridiron On-Demand:

Echoes from the Ancients On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Boynton House (Front)

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Boynton House: The Next Hundred Years On-Demand

WXXI Productions

With Head Heart and Hand

Head, Heart & Hand: Elbert Hubbard and the Roycrofters On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Walking in the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Rochester, NY

Historic Tour of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Highland Park On-Demand

2014 USA Paralympic Sled Hockey Team featured in PBS Documentary "Ice Warriors: USA Sled Hockey"

Ice Warriors: U.S. Sled Hockey On-Demand

In Their Words: Songwriting with Soldiers

In Their Words: Songwriting with Soldiers On-Demand

Local Stories from Vietnam War & the Homefront on Connections Podcast

Connections with Evan Dawson

Local WWII Veterans Share Their Experiences on Connections Podcast

Losing Iraq

Losing Iraq: On-Demand

Music for Life: The Story of New Horizons On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Operation Babylift in April 1975

Operation Babylift Anniversary Conversation from Connections Podcast

Out of the Fire: The Art and Science of Ceramics On-Demand

WXXI Productions

RIT Big Shot: Painting with Light On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Safe Haven On-Demand

WXXI Productions

Sands of War

Sands of War On-Demand

Show Must Go On! Title with two old style photos with 4 female and a male performer in costume pictured

Show Must Go On: On-Demand

StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative

StoryCorps Military Voices Initiative On-Demand

The Life Autistic

The Life Autistic On-Demand

The Sun Queen

The Sun Queen On-Demand

They Were Our Fathers

They Were Our Fathers On-Demand

Veteran sitting in the park with his dog

Veterans Coming Home: Health On-Demand

PBS LearningMedia

Veterans Connections PBS LearningMedia Collections & Military Families Resources

Connections with Evan Dawson

Veterans Day on Connections Podcast

Connections with Evan Dawson

Vietnam War Conversations from Connections Podcast

Women Serving in War

Women Serving in War On-Demand

Soldier Getting on A Bus

Legacies of War: Coming Home On-Demand

Legacies of War Vietnam

Legacies of War: Vietnam On-Demand

Lest We Forget: A Survivor's Story

Lest We Forget: A Survivor’s Story On-Demand

Not Yet Begun To Fight

Not Yet Begun to Fight On-Demand

Brandon tells his story from the stage of using ASL to bridge a communication gap.

One Way or Another On-Demand:

Two people communicating through Protactile used by DeafBlind to communicate

Protactile: A Language of Touch On-Demand