CWK owns the nation’s largest non-fiction video library and proprietary streaming platform that includes hundreds of original programs and curated partner content, thousands of lesson plans, family guides, professional development materials, and more.
ABOUT US
CWK Network is daring to reveal true, audacious stories that allow us all see where we are in our own narratives.
We connect the power of media and the promise of education through cross-platform storytelling to drive positive social transformation. Through our production and distribution of elevated engagement programming, we foster lifelong learning, and inspire action.
We continually produce and actively seek out fresh and impactful material for a wide range of viewers, participants and subscribers. This deep reserve of content allows our audience to see themselves in these experiences and remain endlessly engaged in the hope, joy, perseverance, resilience and triumph of the stories in our ever-growing streaming platform.
Our unique approach centers on creating and curating evocative, personal narratives. We tell genuine, relatable stories from distinctive voices through thought-provoking documentaries and non-fiction programs, prioritizing the power of our StoryTruths strategy to create real connections and empower our subscribers.
CWK Network is daring to tell true, audacious stories that allow us all see where we are in our own narratives.
We harness the power of media and the promise of education through visual storytelling to drive positive social transformation. We foster lifelong learning, celebrate distinctiveness and promote fairness and belonging, enhancing the mental and emotional wellness of individuals across all ages.
CWK owns the nation’s largest non-fiction video library on social and emotional learning (SEL) and parent engagement that includes over 7500 hours of video and thousands of lesson plans, parent fact sheets, professional development materials and more. We continually produce fresh and impactful material for a wide range of viewers, participants and subscribers. This deep reserve of content allows our audience to see themselves in these experiences and remain endlessly engaged in the hope, joy, perseverance, resilience and triumph of the stories in our ever-growing streaming library.
Our unique approach centers on creating evocative, personal narratives. We tell genuine, relatable stories from distinctive voices through thought-provoking documentaries and non-fiction programs, prioritizing the power of “story truths” to create real connections and empower our viewers to take action.
MEET OUR TEAM
Stacey DeWitt | Chief Executive Officer
Sam DeWitt | Chief Financial Officer
Dutch Bickley | Chief Media Officer
Tammie Workman | Educator in Chief
Adam Wilkenfeld | Head of Content
Keith DeWitt | Creative Director
Karen Ford | Lead Designer
Coles Prince | Associate Producer
Bill Goodman | Comunications Director
Dino Quaglietta | Director of Photography
Nate Priest | Editor
Darion Allen | Assistant Producer
Paul Forbes | Education Partnerships
Haley Marshall | Production Coordinator
Shani Perez-Anthony | Educational Consultant
Simeon Sessley | Corporate Strategy
Troy Keller | Educational Consultant
Francheska Starks | Educational Consultant
Tara Kirton | Educational Consultant
MK Largent | Executive Assistant
Megan Rankin | Research Assistant
OUR HISTORY
The Connect with Kids Network (CWK) was formed in 1997 by Sam and Stacey DeWitt.
Stacey was a broadcast journalist and attorney who worked with disadvantaged children. Sam was an entrepreneur who had recently sold a successful gourmet food company. As new parents and social entrepreneurs at heart, they wanted to create a joint venture that would impact social change and improve the lives of children.
Through her work, Stacey gained a deep understanding of the power of media, the influence of storytelling and the positive impact of social and emotional learning on troubled youth and their families. Sam had developed the financial and operational skills necessary to build a strong company. When the two were asked by a local television station to invest in and produce a series of programs for parents, they embraced the opportunity.
The DeWitts formed a partnership with a local ABC television station in Little Rock, Arkansas agreeing to produce news programming for parents on social and emotional issues in exchange for the station’s commitment to broadcast the programs in regularly scheduled time-slots. Within a month, television stations in surrounding cities began licensing the service and the first educational components were added to a small Internet site where parents and educators could download print resources and discussion questions for students.
Within a year, a national syndication team offered to distribute the programming nationwide and the DeWitts moved the company to Atlanta, a top-10 television market and regional hub, to produce a full television series that would ultimately include five news reports each week, eight half-hour documentary specials a year and a corresponding educational curriculum on social and emotional learning distributed in schools.
In September 1998, the company’s flagship, Emmy-award winning Connect with Kids documentary series was born. Over the next decade, CWK produced and distributed it to over 70 ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox television stations reaching over 55 million households annually. During that time, the company added research and educational consultants as well as additional investors. CWK simultaneously produced classroom curricula and professional development for schools and measured the efficacy of those programs winning designations from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin. (SAMHSA). The company also developed an innovative social action strategy that partnered with local television stations, school districts and corporate partners to create educational campaigns on issues like school attendance, character development and bullying and violence prevention.
Today, CWK is an educational media company that continues to use the power of storytelling to create a vibrant specialty marketplace of elevated engagement programming that improves the social and emotional lives of millions of families in local communities. We believe that cross-platform storytelling combined with educational resources can improve communities and transform the world.
OUR HISTORY
The Connect with Kids Network (CWK) was formed in 1997 by Sam and Stacey DeWitt.
Stacey was a broadcast journalist and attorney who worked with disadvantaged children. Sam was an entrepreneur who had recently sold a successful gourmet food company. As new parents and social entrepreneurs at heart, they wanted to create a joint venture that would impact social change and improve the lives of children.
Through her work, Stacey gained a deep understanding of the power of media, the influence of storytelling and the positive impact of social and emotional learning on troubled youth and their families. Sam had developed the financial and operational skills necessary to build a strong company. When the two were asked by a local television station to invest in and produce a series of programs for parents, they embraced the opportunity.
The DeWitts formed a partnership with a local ABC television station in Little Rock, Arkansas agreeing to produce news programming for parents on social and emotional issues in exchange for the station’s commitment to broadcast the programs in regularly scheduled time-slots. Within a month, television stations in surrounding cities began licensing the service and the first educational components were added to a small Internet site where parents and educators could download print resources and discussion questions for students.
Within a year, a national syndication team offered to distribute the programming nationwide and the DeWitts moved the company to Atlanta, a top-10 television market and regional hub, to produce a full television series that would ultimately include five news reports each week, eight half-hour documentary specials a year and a corresponding educational curriculum on social and emotional learning distributed in schools.
In September 1998, the company’s flagship, Emmy-award winning Connect with Kids documentary series was born. Over the next decade, CWK produced and distributed it to over 70 ABC, NBC, CBS and Fox television stations reaching over 55 million households annually. During that time, the company added research and educational consultants as well as additional investors. CWK simultaneously produced classroom curricula and professional development for schools and measured the efficacy of those programs winning designations from the U.S. Department of Education (DOE) and the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Admin. (SAMHSA). The company also developed an innovative social action strategy that partnered with local television stations, school districts and corporate partners to create educational campaigns on issues like school attendance, character development and bullying and violence prevention.
Today’s CWK is an educational media company that continues to use the power of storytelling to improve the social and emotional lives of millions of families in local communities. We believe that visual storytelling combined with educational resources can improve communities and transform the world.