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\"\"<\/a>The Improving and Maximizing Professional Development and Achievement Through Child Care Trainings (IMPACT) Project was developed by Jackson State University\u2019s College of Lifelong Learning. The College of Lifelong Learning established the IMPACT project in<\/p>\n

2008 to provide state approved training on the Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines–giving priority to childcare providers in the piloted areas. The purpose of this project is to promote \u201cReady to Learn\u201d . . . \u201cQuality Early Childhood Education and Care\u201d through quality training and evaluation activities that will have a measurable and observable impact on improving\/enhancing the quality of care for children in licensed and\/or unlicensed childcare setting. These training activities are designed to enhance as well as develop professional skills of caregivers and\/or improve parents\u2019 knowledge of early childhood development.<\/p>\n

The IMPACT project will build childcare educators\/provider\u2019s knowledge on the Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines in the areas of language, vocabulary, and literacy development; mathematical concepts development; scientific investigation; social\/emotional development; and physical development. Childcare teachers and providers will learn specific strategies to improve children\u2019s academic learning to prepare them for upper school environments. This project will also teach childcare providers how to assess, create, and implement the Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines into their classrooms. This project will also work with center directors to learn strategies to motivate their teacher to appropriately implement the Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines into daily learning activities.<\/p>\n

“CLICK HERE<\/a>” to view the\u00a0Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines Training Schedule<\/p>\n

“CLICK HERE<\/a>” for the Start Smart Newsletter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Improving and Maximizing Professional Development and Achievement Through Child Care Trainings (IMPACT) Project was developed by Jackson State University\u2019s College of Lifelong Learning. The College of Lifelong Learning established the IMPACT project in 2008 to provide state approved training on the Mississippi Early Learning Guidelines–giving priority to childcare providers in the piloted areas. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/lifelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/lifelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/lifelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/lifelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/lifelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/lifelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":457,"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/lifelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/203\/revisions\/457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.jsums.edu\/lifelearning\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}