Tallahatchie County
Lead Support Partner: Tallahatchie Early Learning Alliance
Lead Fiscal Partner: Tallahatchie Early Learning Alliance
Application Year: 2014
Welcome to Tallahatchie County Excel By 5! We are proud to be a Certified Child-Friendly County. In partnership with the Tallahatchie Early Learning Alliance (TELA), a team of educators, community leaders, and parents continues to work together to help make Tallahatchie County an even more nurturing, safer environment for our children.
Tallahatchie County Excel By 5
The Tallahatchie Early Learning Alliance (TELA) collaborates for quality childhood education in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi. TELA is an initiative of the Mississippi Early Learning Alliance (MELA), which drives collective impact with diverse stakeholders to achieve systematic change that leads to the holistic development of Mississippi children in the first years of life.
WHAT WE DO:
PREK COLLABORATIVE
In 2014, we became one of the first communities to receive Early Learning Collaborative funding from the state of Mississippi. With the support of state funds, we work to ensure that all 4-year-old children in Tallahatchie County have access to high-quality pre-K programs. We provide backbone support to our four educational provider partners:
West Tallahatchie Head Start Center
Eva Covington Head Start Center
East Tallahatchie School District
West Tallahatchie School District
OUR SUPPORT FOR THE PREK COLLABORATIVE INCLUDES:
Professional Development
Compliance Management
Facilitation Collaboration
Early Childhood Educational Resources
COLLECTIVE IMPACT INITIATIVE
TELA operates as the backbone of the county's collective impact process. This process involves people working together toward our shared goals of supporting children’s health, quality early education, and connected communities in our county. As the backbone organization, we guide vision and strategy, establish shared measurement, support aligned activities, cultivate community engagement and ownership, advance policy, and mobilize resources for the groups with whom we work.
SPRINGBOARD COLLABORATIVE
Closes the literacy gap by closing the gap between home and school. We coach educators and family members to help kids learn to read by the 4th grade. Springboard envisions a world where all children have the requisite literacy skills to access life opportunities.
