{"id":837,"date":"2022-08-25T20:47:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T20:47:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wptest.mdek12.org\/testsite2\/2022\/08\/25\/mde-announces-regional-literacy-meetings-across-state-for-families-of-kindergarten-third-grade-students_20220825\/"},"modified":"2024-08-08T14:18:23","modified_gmt":"2024-08-08T14:18:23","slug":"mde-announces-regional-literacy-meetings-across-state-for-families-of-kindergarten-third-grade-students_20220825","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/2022\/08\/25\/mde-announces-regional-literacy-meetings-across-state-for-families-of-kindergarten-third-grade-students_20220825\/","title":{"rendered":"MDE announces regional literacy meetings across state for families of kindergarten \u2013 third-grade students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>NEWS RELEASE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For Immediate Release: &nbsp;August 25, 2022<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Strong Readers Regional Meetings for Families\" data-align=\"center\" data-entity-type=\"file\" data-entity-uuid=\"80d5ce2d-fea7-4793-a7ec-14df33a7faba\" src=\"\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/strong_readers_regional_meetings_for_families-1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-bottom: 13px\">JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) will host nine regional literacy meetings beginning Sept. 8, across the state for families of students in kindergarten through third grade.<\/p>\n<p>All meetings are from 6 \u2013 7 p.m. and no registration is required. Locations include Holly Springs, McComb, Cleveland, Yazoo City, Columbus, Flowood, Jackson, Natchez, and Moss Point.<\/p>\n<p>At each meeting families will receive an overview of the state law concerning literacy and assessment as well as strategies that can be used at home to help students improve their reading skills. The state law, known as the Literacy-Based Promotion Act (LBPA), focuses on prevention and intervention to help children develop the reading skills required for fourth grade.<\/p>\n<p>Family engagement is also a critical component of students\u2019 reading success.<\/p>\n<p>Time and place of each meeting are as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Thursday, Sept. 8, 6 \u2013 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n\tHolly Springs Primary School<br \/>\n\t405 S. Maury St. , <strong>Holly Springs<\/strong><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday, Sept. 8, 6 \u2013 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n\tMcComb High School Cafeteria<br \/>\n\t310 7th St., <strong>McComb <\/strong><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday, Sept. 13, 6 \u2013 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n\tCleveland Central High School&nbsp;<br \/>\n\t300 West Sunflower Road, <strong>Cleveland<\/strong><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday, Sept. 13, 6 \u2013 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n\tMcLaurin Elementary<br \/>\n\t170 Sgt. Prentiss Dr., <strong>Natchez<\/strong><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday, Sept. 15, 6 \u2013 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n\tNorthwest Rankin Middle School Performing Arts Building<br \/>\n\t5805 Highway 25, <strong>Flowood<\/strong><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday, Sept. 20, 6 \u2013 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n\tNorth Jackson Elementary<br \/>\n\t650 James M. Davis Dr., <strong>Jackson<\/strong><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Tuesday, Sept. 20, 6 \u2013 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n\tFamily Education Center<br \/>\n\t3524 Prentiss Ave., <strong>Moss Point<\/strong><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday, Sept. 22, 6 \u2013 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n\tBrandon Central Office<br \/>\n\t2630 McArthur Dr., <strong>Columbus<\/strong><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;<\/li>\n<li><strong>Thursday, Sep. 29, 6 \u2013 7 p.m.<\/strong><br \/>\n\tMcCoy Elementary<br \/>\n\t1835 School Dr., <strong>Yazoo City<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information, visit <a href=\"\/Literacy\"><u>mdek12.org\/Literacy<\/u><\/a>. For helpful resources and activities visit <a href=\"https:\/\/strongreadersms.com\/\"><u>strongreadersms.com<\/u><\/a> today.<\/p>\n<p>Find all MDE news releases at <a href=\"\/news\"><u>mdek12.org\/news<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEWS RELEASE For Immediate Release: &nbsp;August 25, 2022 &nbsp; JACKSON, Miss. \u2013 The Mississippi Department of Education (MDE) will host nine regional literacy meetings beginning Sept. 8, across the state for families of students in kindergarten through third grade. All meetings are from 6 \u2013 7 p.m. and no registration is required. Locations include Holly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2761,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/837\/revisions\/2761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wpdev01.mdek12.org\/communications\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}