Education Department
On-site Classes
Using programs from the Paley Archive as a means of illustration and investigation, Paley Center Educators lead sessions in New York City on a wide range of subjects such as advertising, the documentary form, and the Civil Rights movement.
Videoconferencing
The Paley Center offers classes via videoconferencing on a wide variety of topics that have been developed and are conducted by the Paley Center's education staff.
Workshops For Educators
The Paley Center offers professional training workshops for educators as part of its role as a community resource and also to help develop an informed audience.
Teen Transmitters
Teen Transmitters at Paley is a 100-hour summer internship for rising 11th and 12th grade students who attend New York City public high schools.
Robert M. Batscha University Series Presented by Dick Wolf
This series explores issues and the creative process behind fiction and nonfiction programming as well as new media and is available to college students and professors across the country on demand.
Re-creating Radio Workshops
Read more about the fun and exciting Re-Creating Radio workshops for the whole family at the Paley Center in New York.
Docu-Jam 2020: Youth Documentary Showcase
POSTPONED
Our annual event Docu-Jam: Youth Documentary Showcase is postponed. Later in the year, we will be seeking outstanding documentaries produced by young people across the country. Selected documentaries will be screened at the Paley Center in New York City and will become part of the Paley Center’s permanent collection.
Resources for @Home Learning
PDF: Home Media Recommendations: Social Studies/English Language Arts
PDF: Home Media Recommendations: STEM
PDF: Online Research Tips & Best Practices
Online Paley Center Class Resources:
Grades 4–7: Tooned In to Animation
Grades 5–12: The Fine Art of Persuasion: Television and Advertising
Grades 9–12: The Thirty-Second Candidate: Political Advertising on Television
Grades 10–12: Red Scare: The Cold War & Television
Paley Education & Media Resource Guide
Consuming media with your kids is a perfect jumping-off point to making media literacy a part of your everyday lives.
Sign up for our weekly Paley Education & Media Resource Guide, which is filled with recommendations, best practices, and resources for teachers and parents. Also, it offers "What We're Watching," two specific programs to watch based on age range, with related discussion questions and online activities for parents to engage their children.
- November 16, 2020 Early America
- November 9, 2020 Diwali
- November 2, 2020 Election Day
- October 26, 2020 Halloween
- October 19, 2020 Athletes as Activists
Hispanic Heritage Month
- October 12, 2020 Hispanic Heritage Month - Fantasy ENGLISH SPANISH
- October 5, 2020 Hispanic Heritage Month - Family ENGLISH SPANISH
- September 28, 2020 Hispanic Heritage Month - Music ENGLISH SPANISH
- September 21, 2020 Hispanic Heritage Month Kickoff ENGLISH SPANISH
Teen Transmitters Takeover!
- September 14, 2020 Politics and Media Post-COVID
- September 7, 2020 Covid-19, Social Unrest, and Hollywood
- August 31, 2020 Media in Quarantine
- August 24, 2020 Comfort, Covid & Confinement
- August 17, 2020 A Night at the Movies
- August 10, 2020 Take a Bow, Broadway
- August 24, 2020 Comfort, Covid & Confinement
- August 17, 2020 A Night at the Movies
- August 10, 2020 Take a Bow, Broadway
- August 3, 2020 Star Gazing
- July 28, 2020 Goosebumps & The Twilight Zone
- July 20, 2020 Studio Ghibli
- July 13, 2020 Page to Screen
- July 6, 2020 New York City
- June 29, 2020 Summer Vacation
- June 22, 2020 Alfred Hitchcock Presents Ghost Stories for Young People & Psycho
- June 16, 2020 Black Panther & Black Panthers: Vanguard of a Revolution
- June 9, 2020 Our Planet & Chasing Coral
- June 1, 2020 Danger & Eggs & Steven Universe
- May 25, 2020 Asian Pacific American Heritage Month
- May 18, 2020 The Plausible Impossible & Spider-Man: Into the Spiderverse
- May 11, 2020 Pen Pals & Kedi
- May 4, 2020 Coco & Artbound
- April 27, 2020 The Backyardigans & Samurai Jack
- April 22, 2020 The Lorax & Virunga
- April 15, 2020 WALL-E & The X-Files
- April 7, 2020 Curious George & Science Fair
- March 31, 2020 Buffy the Vampire Slayer
- March 26, 2020 Media Literacy
Contact Us
Thank You
Funding for the Education Program has been generously provided by an endowment from:
- William Randolph Hearst Foundation
- Leo J. Hindery, Jr.
For additional support, the Paley Center wishes to thank:
- The JMCMRJ Foundation
- Dick Wolf
- Joan Ganz Cooney
- Pinkerton Foundation
- Seth Sprague Educational and Charitable Foundation
- Con Edison
- Select Equity Group Foundation
- Michael Tuch Foundation
- The Laura B. Vogler Foundation, Inc.
- William E. Weiss Foundation
The Education Program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, in partnership with the City Council.
