NEW in the Professional Development section:
We know that many of you are working hard to help move teachers and other staff towards securing their AA and BA degrees. As a result of culminating a project with the MSHSQIC and Telamon Tennessee we think we have a good resource that will work for some of your staff. If you have staff who have the CDA but not taken it through a college so that college credit was not offered, if you have fluent Spanish-speaking staff who are willing to take the CLEP test to receive college credit for their speaking and writing abilities, if you have staff with a foreign degree that is not acknowledged, the Troy State University Montgomery program may be for you or your staff.

In collaboration with Troy State University Montgomery, Telamon Tennessee, the MSHSQIC and AED’s Director of Knowledge Management, a booklet entitled “Program Guide for Head Start Staff Development Specialists: Associate of Science, Bachelors of Arts/Science Degrees in General Education Troy State University Montgomery External Degree Program” and an accompanying pamphlet have been developed for distribution to all MSHS grantees. It has been sent to all programs and is available here to download. Click here for more details and to download documents.

NEW Transportation Safety Education Curriculum!
We are thrilled to make available EPIC’s Transportation Safety Education Curriculum (click here to download) in both English and Spanish. The curriculum has been designed and used for the past 2 years by several MSHS grantees and they report that children, parents and teachers love it. Not only that, this curriculum when implemented, meets the requirements of 45 CFR 1310.21 (safety education). A hard copy is being sent out to all migrant and seasonal Head Start grantees (over 34,000 children served).

Many thanks to Tina Heily, EPIC Education Coordinator, Sharon Sumpter, EPIC Early Childhood Services Director and the EPIC transportation teams for developing, piloting and most especially for sharing this curriculum with the Head Start community. They worked very hard on this project and we are very appreciative of their efforts and their dedication to our mission to provide the safest transportation possible for our youngest travelers. In addition, thanks to Nancy Netherland from the MSHSQIC who became my first stop for indepth knowledge on the transportation regulations and a facilitator for the migrant and seasonal Head Start transportation work group.

Please notice that the curriculum is copyrighted, yet it will remain free of charge for use by Head Start grantees.

MSHS QIC announces the Mentor-Teacher Handbook on Early Literacy for Migrant Classrooms!
This tool was designed to support mentors and teachers in developing and/or discussing existing early literacy practices appropriate for migrant and seasonal preschool children. The handbook is composed of 5 areas: Dramatic Play, Communication-Rich Classrooms, Literacy Teaching Expertise, Phonological Awareness, and Cognitive Development. Each area includes specific section that provide hands-on and clear activities or examples to reflect on such as "What it looks like" with Research Says" with current research findings, "Program Practices", and "Mentoring/coaching Successful Classroom Practices" with specific ideas for mentors to explore with teachers. Click here to download in English or Spanish (PDF format).

Hot Off the Press!
In the June 6, 2003 issue of Tennessee's The Jackson Sun, reporter Rachael Myer writes about Telamon's Alamo Head Start Center's service to migrant kids. Read more>

To learn about the Head Start Bureau's T/TA Update,
click here.

What’s new at the MSHSQIC
The newly revised Community Assessment Handbook has been placed on the web site in the “Management” section. Click here to access this fabulous new resource!

New on the Horizon
The MSHS QIC is in the process of developing a Second Language Acquisition Handbook. Check back shortly for this excellent resource that will be available for download soon!

The new PRISM review instrument for 2004 has been released by the Head Start Bureau.
Click here to access the new IM for PRISM 2004, ACYF-IM-HS-03-08, and its attachments PRISM All Instruments 2004 and PRISM Guide 2004. Check back soon for Spanish version.

Supporting the Home Language and Promoting English Acquisition with Migrant and Seasonal Head Start
The MSHS QIC and DSQIC have co-authored a technical paper on Second Language Acquisition. This paper offers guidance for strategies regarding the appropriate support for second language learners. Click here to download either a summary in English or a full version in English or Spanish in PDF format.

Documents translated into Spanish!

	2002 PRISM
	HSB Memorandums
	Performance Standards

MSHS QIC Newsletter!
To download copies of our newsletter in English and Spanish in PDF format, click here.