FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Oct. 28, 2005
Contact: Anika Mitchell Perkins
(662) 329-7119

MUW education students provide professional development

COLUMBUS, Miss. – Six master’s of reading literacy students from Mississippi University for Women recently provided professional development training for 68 local daycare providers.

Young’s Daycare, United Christian Child Development Center and Crawford Love-n-Learn Center hosted these training sessions. Other participants included Kidz R Us, Sal’s Daycare, Sandcastle Nursery and Learning Center as well as Stewart’s Nursery and Learning Center.

The training workshops stemmed from a partnership with MUW assistant professor Monica Riley and Brenda Pritchett, access librarian, at the Columbus-Lowndes Public Library.

The Columbus-Lowndes Public Library received the Viburnum Family Literacy Grant, which initiated Project C.H.I.L.D, Caregivers Help Influence Literacy Development therefore creating the partnership.

Undergraduate as well as graduate students also have been visiting local daycares to read to children as a part of Project C.H.I.L.D. Undergraduate students will continue this program once a month.