At the completion of their service hours, they receive a Segal education award. About 30 Ole Miss students serve within the program as minimum-time AmeriCorps members who each pledge to serve 300 hours with Jumpstart over the course of a school year.
Submitted photoĪt UM, Jumpstart is part of a larger organization, College Corps.
Ikeyreiah Harris (top) a Jumpstart member at Mississippi University for Women, helps children create family portraits to build their writing skills and creative thinking. With the most recent expansion, the program operates from Mississippi State University’s Meridian campus and Tougaloo College in Jackson, giving it a foothold to serve those areas of the state. “Jumpstart helps support that early intervention effort in communities across the state, so we are excited to spread to other locations in our state.”īesides UM, Jumpstart also serves the state through locations at Mississippi University for Women and the University of Southern Mississippi. “We know that in Mississippi, we have about 3,000 children served with public, state dollars in pre-K programs,” Rutherford said. Jumpstart has been doing that in Mississippi since its creation in 2012. Getting to the state’s future students early is important, said Angela Rutherford, CELI director and a professor of teacher education. Its mission is to provide exemplary instruction, relevant research and effective service through collaboration with schools, businesses, community organizations and the public at large. Jumpstart is part of the UM School of Education‘s Center for Excellence in Literacy Instruction, or CELI. The ranking is often called “The Nation’s Report Card.” Jumpstart is expanding into Jackson and Meridian as Mississippi fourth-graders posted the nation’s best reading scores in 2019, and all grades were at least the national average, according to the National Assessment and Educational Progress, or NAEP, scores.
– Jumpstart, a University of Mississippi-based organization that trains college students to teach preschool children from resource-challenged families, is broadening its efforts to ensure the state’s children are well-prepared for kindergarten. Jumpstart, an organization based at the University of Mississippi that trains college students to teach preschool children from resource-challenged families, is broadening its efforts to ensure the state’s children are prepared for kindergarten. Hope Gladney (top), a Mississippi University for Women student and Jumpstart member, signs the ‘5 Little Ducks’ to build children’s phonological awareness.
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