Contact & Website Information

http://PNNPTA.pnn.com (National PTA and our PNN  Site)

http://PNN.com (The Personal News Network Site)

http://KidsTalkRadio.pnn.com (Kid's Talk Radio Site)

http://KidsTalkRadioShow.pnn.com (Kid's Talk Shows)

http://JrMedicalSchool.pnn.com (Kid's Talk Radio Science Site)

www.KidsTalkRadioLA.com (Los Angeles Radio Station Site)

www.BobBarboza.com (Performing Arts Site)

www.SuperSchoolUniversity.com (Action Research & Grant Site)

www.SuperSchoolSoftware.com (Educational Software & Hardware)

http://web.mac.com/bobbarboza2/Site/Welcome.html


Kid's Talk Radio/PNN News
Bob Barboza, Founder/Director
1857 Josie Ave.
Long Beach, CA 90815
(562) 594-8580Office
E-Mail:Suprschool@aol.com
www.Kid'sTalkRadioLA.com

For more information about joining Kid's Talk Radio and Jr. Medical School contact Bob Barboza at Suprschool@aol.com

For information about Jr. Business School visit www.SuperSchoolUniversity.com.

For more information about half-day or full day training contact Suprschool@aol.com.

What is Kid's Talk Radio?

What is Kid's Talk Radio all about and how does it help students, parents, and teachers?

Kid's Talk Radio was designed and created by Bob Barboza as a high motivational after school learning program for students in the Paramount Unified School District.  Bob was working as a resource specialist working with students with special needs during school time and gifted and talented students after school.  He would volunteer three days a week to find high motivational ways to keep kids excited about learning.  He loved working after school.  This was one of the places where he could be creative with students and not have to always worry about raising test scores.  It was the perfect place for teachers that loved to teach.  Kid's Talk Radio was a natural fit.  You could be creative everyday and at the same time kids were learning how to do a better job at listening, speaking, reading, writing and using technology to deliver a product.

Each student in the program used a journalist in the box training kit, with custom software, project books, and electronic journalist portfolios.  We use project-based learning.  We designed the program to fit the needs of all of the students. We allowed students to find the best spot on the news team that would help them to be successful.


Kid's Talk Radio is a high motivational journalism program designed to help students to do a better job at listening, speaking, reading, writing, and computing.  We use project based learning to work with general education students, gifted and talented students, English language learners, at risk, and special needs students.  Our program designs individual educational project plans for each student.  Kid's Talk Radio is designed for students in grades 3 through 8 and grades 9 thorough 12.  Students are trained to form news teams.  Each news team consists of five members.

Station Manager: The station manager is trained to keep the news team organized.  He or she makes it possible for the news team to meet all of its deadlines and to make sure that the news comes out on time.  The news team manager plays an important role in training new Kid's Talk Radio reporters.

Inside Reporter 1:  This news reporter often times works in the classroom and will provide news from the school or community level.  This job varies according to the special assignment that come into the classroom.

Outside Reporter 1: This reporter will go out into the community to get the news. He or she will report on sports, weather, movies, and current events that matter to kids.

Sound Effects Engineer 1:  This student is responsible for all of the technology that is used at Kid's Talk Radio.

Lead Journalist 1:  This journalist works very closely with Kid's Talk Radio teachers.  He or she is responsible for all the content that goes on the radio station.  It is just like being the editor-in-chief of a real newspaper.



What is Journalist in a Box?

We created journalist in the box to help students to learn the skills that they need to become effective storytellers and journalist.  It was important to create a training kit to help students, teachers, and parents.  The Journalist in a Box Kit contains, teacher's guides, student project books, graphic organizers, storytelling lessons, news team building projects and lessons, digital recorders, microphones, headphones, custom software, and a Kid's Talk Radio Thumb Drive.  All students can publish and individual website or a classroom website.


What does the future hold for Kid's Talk Radio?

We would love to reach out to students, teachers, and parents all over the world.  It is important that we grow student news teams.  We want to tell stories and find stories and share them with kids all over the world.

Bob Barboza is currently working with the city of Long Beach to open up an opportunity center.  This center will allow students to go out into the community to gather up the stories and publish them on PNN The Personal News Network.

What are Kid's Talk Radio classroom learning centers?

Special education students are in every classroom.  Many of these students are well below their age and grade level.  They spend a tremendous amount of time listening to information that they do not understand.  They very often times do not have opportunities to speak.  When you are in a classroom speaking is not often encouraged.  Reading is difficult for these students and often times that students do not understand what is being read.  Schools allow resource specialist to pop in and out of classrooms.  Often times this is not enough support to make a difference in the student's academic life. Writing is an equal problem; often times special needs students don't have the skills or even a compelling reason to write.  Computers are often times not being used to their full potential in the classroom.   Bob Barboza is working on a new classroom learning centers that makes Kid's Talk Radio an important part of the language arts, history, social studies, and technology classroom.

What is the Cabo Verde Kid's Talk Radio Project?

We want to work with the students on the Cabo Verde Islands.  It is one of our goals to provide these students with a Journalist in a Box Kit.  This kit will provide all of the
Information and equipment that students, teachers, and parents need to broadcast stories from the Cabo Verde Islands to students in the United States.  All kits will be in Portuguese and English.  On February 16, 2008, the first Cabo Verde Kid's Talk Radio News Team was formed in Southern California.  We are beginning to realize our dream.
We are currently searching for translators that would be will to help with this project.  The California news teams first assignment was to do a movie review "Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?"  This is a true Cape Verdean American Story.  Our team conducted an exclusive interview with Dr. Claire Andrade-Watkins.  For generations of people were connected on this project.


What is PNN?

PNN is a social networking website that is designed to help people to publish their stories and to share them with the world.  This site is provide as a free service and it is perfect for building Kid's Talk Radio stations that can reach people from all over the world.  Kid's Talk Radio is a channel on the PNN News Station.  Bob Barboza serves as the director of Educational Outreach for PNN.


How do people find out more about Kid's Talk Radio?

Lauren Elliott and Bob Barboza will be co-presenting at several national and local educational technology conferences. A complete list can be found on the front page of www.SuperSchoolSoftware.com.


What is in the future for Kid's Talk Radio?

At this point it is all about growing student news teams.  We are excited about the action research that we have seen so far.  The system is working and now we want to grow.  At present, we have an office in Northern California and we are working on build our new office in Southern California.  We are perfecting our "Journalist in a Box Kits" and finding ways to get them in more schools.  Our team will continue to speak at schools and social organizations dedicated to helping students in need.  Our gang prevention program is underway and we are working closely with Green Dot Charter Schools, Apple Computer, The Pickford Film Institute, The Los Angeles Technology Committee, and The FileMaker Corporation.


What about Kid's Talk Radio and parents?

We have to put together a quick news team for the Pan American Film Festival.  I asked parents to find six kids in a hurry.  The Cape Verdean of Southern California sprang into action lead by club member Catherine Silver Walker.  She found the children, located a center for a news interview, and made it possible for a news team to be assembled within 48 hours.  We used the Kid's Talk Radio Journalist in a Box Kit and produced the show that you can see on this website.  Parents help Bob Barboza with the training of each student.  Students were reading to their parents, participating in photo shoots, editing their news scripts and then they joined Bob Barboza as he lead students through a live radio podcast interview of Dr. Watkins "Some Kind of Funny Porto Rican?"  radio film review.

Parents were involved with the training of their own children.  They learned what to do on the fly and the parents and children rose to the higher expectations.  It was not easy, but people did what needed to be done.  Dr. Watkins walked into the studio and the kids new it was show time.   They stepped up to the plate and read their lines.  Without parent support I could not have pulled it off.   This was a gang prevention program.  In addition, it was project based learning, meaningful parent involvement, cooperative learning, and standard based assessment.  This is a fantastic accomplished for this group of Cape Verdean parents.  Before this meeting they were struggling to get their children involved in their social club.  Kid's Talk Radio provided and alternative to hip hop, gangs, fads, and other American pop culture distractions that get in the way of families providing values and education.  On this day, parents were the teachers and they saw the fruits of their teaching when it was show time for their children.  Kid's Talk Radio is our small creative attempt to start the wheel rolling.  

What is Super School University?

The Super School University Distance Learning Program

Super School University was created by Bob Barboza to unite teachers from around the world.  These are teachers that love to teach and that put in many hours working on new tools and educational materials for their students.  Teachers that often time have difficulty finding support for new out side of the box ideas that will get student excited about learning.   This distance learning university creates students and teacher productivity tools that are shared by educators throughout the world.  Super School Software publishes these tools and makes it possible for teachers to create custom programs that are designed to meet the needs of their students.

Super School University uses it profits and resources from Super School Software to give back to students, parents, and teachers.  We provide door prizes at local and national computer conferences, donations to teachers, scholarships to single parents, teacher's grants, and special support for school administrators.  

Super School University has created four distance learning outreach programs.

1.    Jr. Medical School:  This program was originally designed for young women.  It helped students in grades 4 through 8 and 9 through 12 live the dream of going to medical school for 10 days.  The program has now been expanded to last two months. It now includes both male and female students.  You can learn more about Jr. Medical School at the following websites: http://JrMedicalSchool.pnn.com and www.SuperSchoolUniversity.com.
2.    Jr. Law School:  This program was designed to help students to understand street law, our legal system, Internet law, how to avoid being arrested, and how to avoid joining a gang.
3.    Jr. Business School Part I:  This new program helps you to get a job in the compute technology industry.  With Database Projects for Kids you can learn how to build a business solution that is designed to help a real business.  Our Podcasting for Small Business course will teach you how to make valuable commercials for businesses in your local community.  We offer Apple Certified Training and will help you to pass the Apple Certified Training Exams.
4.    Kid's Talk Radio:  This program is designed to build your skills as a journalist and to help you to be an important member of a Kid's Talk Radio news team.

In Summary:  Super School University is a digital distance -learning program that will help teachers to grow new ideas, build programs, and finish learning projects and to explore new ideas.  You will work with educators that will help you to get excited about teaching.  We feel that teachers need support in doing their own research.