Faith Rogow, Ph.D. is an independent scholar and the Media Literacy Education Maven at InsightersEducation.com, which she founded in 1996 to help people learn from media and one another. She has taught thousands of teachers, students, child care professionals, media professionals, parents and guardians to understand and harness the power of media.
Dr. Rogow has designed award-winning educational outreach for children’s media, earning renown for her video, Understanding Teletubbies: A Field Guide for Grown-Ups. She developed education materials, outreach workshops, and served as U.S. national lead trainer for Sid the Science Kid, Teletubbies, The Puzzle Place, Boohbah, Theodore Tugboat, Tots TV, and the Peabody Award-winning early childhood education series A Place of Our Own / Los Niños En Su Casa. In recognition of her work on outreach for Sesame Street, she was given a Ralph B. Rogers Award by Children’s Television Workshop.
She has served as a consultant to PBS’ Ready to Learn Service, Sesame Workshop, WGBH, CPB’s “Don’t Buy It” website for 9-11 year olds, the Television Race Initiative, Ragdoll, Cookie Jar Entertainment, KCET, and a variety of other instructional and children’s media projects.
A media literacy education innovator and strategist, Dr. Rogow was the founding President of the National Association for Media Literacy Education, a founding editorial board member of the Journal for Media Literacy Education, and a founding advisor and project evaluator for Ithaca College’s Project Look Sharp (the nation’s first curriculum-driven media literacy education initiative).
Rogow’s groundbreaking 2002 article, “The ABCs of Media Literacy,” was one of the first in the U.S. to explore media literacy education methods that are developmentally appropriate for early childhood. That work has now been expanded into a book: Media Literacy for Young Children: Teaching Beyond the Screen Time Debates (NAEYC, 2022). This is her third major media literacy education publication. She previously co-authored The Teacher’s Guide to Media Literacy: Critical Thinking in a Multimedia World (Corwin, 2012) and Media Literacy in Every Classroom: A Quick Reference Guide (2017, ASCD). She was also instrumental in developing NAMLE’s Core Principles of Media Literacy Education.
As a consultant, Rogow has developed discussion guides or lesson plans for more than 250 independent documentaries, including twenty seasons of films in the acclaimed PBS-American Documentary series, POV. She specializes in films dealing with sensitive or controversial topics and using film to jump start community dialogue and social change. You can read about her approach to discussion guide design on her blog TUNE IN Next Time | Media Literacy Education Musings.
Outside the education and media world, many people know Dr. Rogow for her work in the progressive Jewish community. A former camp songleader, Rogow composed the camp hit “Shiru Shir” and the chant “As We Bless” which has been covered by several artists and used in feminist and progressive spiritual rituals all over the world. Rogow also wrote a history of the National Council of Jewish Women, Gone to Another Meeting (University of Alabama Press, 1993).
Rogow earned a Ph.D. and M.A. in History from Binghamton University and a B.A. from Indiana University.