Angela Santomero
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516 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2016
last heard Oct 2021
Angela Santomero’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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We'll observe what they're saying, whether they're
Interested whether they're getting the concepts that we literally want to set out.
We have an intent to teach.
So even though it would be after one program, we want to know that kids are taking away a strategy for Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood or really cognitive learning skills from Blue's Clues.
And so we look at that.
And then we're constantly going back in, especially in a development process, so that we know that there's a difference sitting on the floor with kids when we're reading this script and playing out these games than when it's actually on television, when it's on a screen.
And so we'll test it at different stages when it's on a screen as well to just make sure that we're maximizing the learning benefits of the program.
Yeah, and then the meetings that we have afterwards are kind of, you know, they're really, really, I was going to say argumentative, but there's this like, there's like this intense love and vision for what we want to put out to kids.
And so we'll spend, I mean, the researchers spend so much time.
in the groups and then debriefing about what's going on and then we'll sit down with the executive producers and the writers and with the research team and talk about what it is that we can do to make sure that the scripts are better that we continue to you know really kind of push the limits of what kids can do and what they need to know and how they need to see it all the way through the production process and so
In a lot of ways, I make my job harder for myself because I get consultant feedback.
I get feedback from anybody that's in that particular area of interest that we're writing about as well as kids and our research all the way through.
So it's really an engaging, interesting, and sometimes really difficult process.
Yeah, and we want, I mean, I definitely want to know what everybody is thinking, and then I have to make that call, right?
And always who wins, the kids are the ones that win, right?
What we do right by the kids, that's literally the first, the place that we go in terms of any deciding vote or what it is that we need to do to move things forward.
Yeah, that always gets me.
I don't care how many Emmy nominations there are out there, but those are the kinds of letters that we get that really make it worthwhile what we do every day.
What we've seen in the formative research is on the social-emotional side is that when we're giving these strategies that we carefully write and tweak, and the composers, Voodoo Highway, are amazing at the lyrics and putting everything together with us,
We're seeing how sticky it is, and there's so many reasons for why that is.
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