Corinth-Alcorn County News

By Lena Mitchell Daily Journal Corinth Bureau CORINTH – Corinth and Alcorn County have been certified as Excel By 5 communities. The three-year certification awarded to the local coalition of groups by the statewide organization recognizes Corinth and Alcorn County as...

By Leana Mitchell Daily Journal Corinth Bureau CORINTH – The Corinth-Alcorn County Excel By 5 program has reached 76 percent completion of certification requirements and is seeking volunteers to help achieve the certification goal by 2014. “Our volunteers will help...

By Zach Steen zsteen@dailycorinthian.com The Excel By 5 certification process has been very important to Commission on the Future of Alcorn County leaders. As one of the first task forces set in place by the commission in August 2010, the Alcorn County Excel By 5...

The best hope for tomorrow rests with the children of today, and local leaders are working for a brighter future by focusing on the most crucial period of a child’s mental development – the first five years. By adopting the Excel By 5 program, Corinth and Alcorn...

By Joseph Miller jmiller@dailycorinthian.com Corinth and Alcorn County’s Excel By 5 coalition recently celebrated their first anniversary at Waukomis that was hosted by Refreshments, Inc. and Coca-Cola of Corinth. Excel By 5 is a community-based certification program...

Eight local childcare centers have signed on to be part of the Excel By 5 effort to help Alcorn County’s children prepare for kindergarten. “Birth to age five is the most valuable time to prepare our children to enter kindergarten and build a foundation for lifelong...

Excel by 5 wants all of Corinth and Alcorn County’s children to be ready to learn to read by the time they are five years old. To promote reading the work toward this mission, volunteers from the group will read Christmas stories to children during Saturday’s Winter...

The Excel By 5 Mobile Resource Center recently visited several target communities in the area and daycares who have joined the program, including Kids’ Kountry in Rienzi. Corinth and Alcorn County’s Excel By 5 Coalition is spreading the word about early childhood...

On Saturday a group of preschool teachers and child care providers attended a training session led by one of the state’s foremost authorities on early childhood development. Dr. Lynn Darling, director the Mississippi State University Early Childhood Institute,...

An organization that helps kids recently got some big help from the Corinth Kiwanis. The Corinth/Alcorn County Excel By 5 Coalition is a group that strives to support families of children in their most formative years — birth to five — through family service agencies,...

Local community and education leaders honored Kids’ Kountry Daycare in Rienzi as Alcorn County’s first Excel by 5 Daycare. Excel by 5 is a community-based certification designed to improve a child’s wellbeing by the age of five. The program emphasizes the important...

CORINTH – Corinth’s Dec. 1 Christmas parade will give the community its first look at a mobile learning center for parents – primarily mothers – of children from birth to age 5. The mobile learning center that will go into communities where these young children live...

CORINTH - Corinth and Alcorn County have joined other Northeast Mississippi communities addressing their prekindergarten children's needs. The vehicle they're using is Excel by 5, a program to support child development to age 5 developed through a collaboration of the...