"FOLLOW YOUR PATH IN OUR GREAT REGION." is the second video installment of a two-year, $800,000 educational technology grant from the U. S. Department of Education that Detroit Public TV obtained with the assistance of Congresswoman Carolyn Cheeks Kilpatrick. The program will be one of three video components in a series of three Learning Content Units (LCUs) that comprise The Enrichment Channel (TEC) project. Each LCU will incorporate Michigan Literacy Progress Profile (MLPP), SCOPE and other educational concepts into innovative videos, CD-ROMs and Internet-based instructional applications. TEC is designed to provide teachers, students and parents with curriculum-based tools and technologies that boost learning skills.

DPTV has been working with southeast Michigan's leading early elementary literacy and educational technology experts to launch this project and create this program. Dr. Joan Lessen-Firestone, Deborah A. Woodman, and Dr. David Housel are representing Oakland Schools. Elaine Weber, Mel Miller and Michael Gielniak are representing Macomb Intermediate Schools District. Dr. Barbara Moy and Dahia Shabaka are representing Detroit Public Schools. Since TEC is a pilot project for eventual statewide application, we asked the Marquette-Alger Intermediate School District's Betty Burke-Coduti to represent that region of the state. Wayne RESA's Dr. Ron Sniderman and Andrew Henry are the project's principal content and educational technology advisors.

All early elementary teachers throughout Oakland, Macomb and Wayne Counties have perpetual educational use rights to the program and are invited to record the show for use in their classrooms. In addition, each tri-county and Marquette-Alger county 2nd, 3rd and 4th grade teacher is eligible to receive the corresponding CD-ROM free of charge. Parents and caregivers are also invited to record the programs for home use and can inquire about obtaining the CD-ROM at (313) 876-8148.