Considerations for Reopening Mississippi Schools & June 11 State Board of Education Meeting
The Mississippi State Board of Education (SBE) will consider several policies at its June 11 meeting to give local school districts scheduling flexibility for the 2020-21 school year to deal with the impact of COVID-19…
MDE Academic Recovery Planning Summer Workshops
The Office of Academic Education has partnered with ANet, a nonprofit dedicated to educational equity, to host a professional learning series for a LIMITED number of districts interested in creating teams to effectively diagnose students’ starting points and developing an equity-centered plan to support their progress towards grade-level mastery upon re-entry in the fall of 2020…
A Roadmap to Reopening Mississippi School Libraries
The Office of Elementary Education and Reading, Division of School Libraries, will host a webinar for school librarians and administrators to discuss the best ways to reopen school libraries and…
MDE Call Center Alert
Starting Monday, June 15, 2020, the MDE call center will be open Monday through Friday, 8 a.m.to 5 p.m. To reach an MDE staff member, please call 601-359-3513.
Educator Licensure Call Center Alert
Starting Monday, June 15, 2020, the Educator Licensure Call Center will be open Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. – 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. You may reach a licensure team member at 601-359-3483.
Due to the anticipated high volume of calls, please visit www.mdek12.org/licensure and the Educator Licensure section of www.mdek12.org/covid19 and before calling the office or emailing questions to the teachersupport@mdek12.org email address. Answers to most questions we receive are addressed on those webpages.
Do You Have Questions for MDE?
Please check the MDE COVID-19 Information webpage before emailing your questions to MDE staff. The answers to most of the questions we receive are addressed on the webpage. We also regularly add guidance, answers to new questions and links to our daily update email on this webpage. Daily updates are posted in the Administrator News section of the EdUpdate.
Announcements from all previous email updates are posted in the Administrator News section of the EdUpdate.