Kathy Finger
Kathy has worked on education initiatives with SCETV for more than 25 years. From coordinating satellite distance-education for Head Start programs in the early 1990s, to helping organize higher-ed online course collaboration in the early 2000s, and now helping support K-12 schools as they themselves offer online learning, she has served a variety of educator audiences and witnessed up-front many changes in education itself.
Having learned Access databases long ago, she’s a big fan of working with data and using it to help inform activities, so much so that she’s earned the nickname of ‘data queen’ within the Education department. For many years, she ran the TeacherLine Southeast professional development program for ETV; now she enjoys working on a variety of programs and projects as needed, including the annual survey and monthly Education e-newsletter.
Kathy’s work has led her to be a big fan of educators, too. She strives to increase opportunities for teacher feedback, elevation, and engagement.
Stories
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'All-Star' Richland One educator begins second year promoting civic education
January 01, 2023PBS Digital Innovator All-Star Lekena Ackerman is partnering with the ETV Education team for her second year of work promoting student education on civics. Named a PBS Digital Innovator All-Star in 2022, one of only 20 selected across the nation, Ackerman spent her first... -
ETV LEARN: Plan now for winter learning & earning
Bette Jamison and Kathy FingerOctober 31, 2022Plan now to join ETV LEARN for a “hot” course or two this winter. In January 2023, one Read to Succeed (R2S) course plus more than 30 Self-paced Renewal courses will begin! R2S course: Instructional Practices Course ID/title: RDLA267 Teaching Phonics and Spelling for... -
Fall PD: A NEW course, a BOGO offer + R2S
Bette Jamison and Kathy FingerAugust 31, 2022ETV LEARN has a fun NEW course this fall: Exploring Naturalists Impacting SC & Beyond! This 20 Renewal Credit course with South Carolina naturalist Rudy Mancke joins our fall lineup of 30+ courses to begin October 4, 2022. The study of naturalists combines history, natural... -
Youth, media and education
August 31, 2022Over the past several months, ETV Education has been surveying youth, from middle school through graduate students, regarding their media usage, educational experiences, and related interests. This information is important to ETV and educators in seeking to serve and engage... -
Renew your teaching with ETV LEARN
July 31, 2022Ready to go back to school? As a learner? It can be daunting but ETV LEARN supports you all the way! Educators, we get it, you mostly would prefer to teach a course than take one, so we do our best to make our ETV LEARN courses as convenient and supportive as possible - and... -
Lekena Ackerman of Richland District One named PBS Digital Innovator All-Star
June 27, 2022Congratulations to SC educator, Lekena Ackerman, on being named a 2022 PBS Digital Innovator All-Star! Ms. Ackerman, a social studies teacher and department chair at Southeast Middle School, Richland District One, was chosen as one of only 20 educators across the nation for...