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McPhaul Center earns accreditation
The McPhaul Child Development Center has been granted accreditation by the National Association for the Education of Young Children, an honor held by only 7 percent of early childhood programs nationwide. In addition, the McPhaul Center also has received a $70,000 grant that will allow the center’s leaders to help child-care centers throughout Northeast Georgia.
“We’re thrilled that our hard work to meet NAEYC standards resulted in our receiving accreditation,” says Becky Olson, the center’s director. “Although we already knew the care we provide is excellent, going through the year-long process of accreditation gave us the opportunity to carefully examine and refine our programs, our physical space and our teaching methods to ensure that they are of absolutely the highest quality.”
With the $70,000 grant from the Georgia Child-Care Council, the McPhaul Center is launching a project to expand the training opportunities available to other child-care centers, including specialized training for working with children with special needs.
In addition, the McPhaul Center will host six additional trainings in the next year focusing on children with special needs and will serve as a resource for child-care centers seeking advice on working with children with special needs.
Under the auspices of the grant, the McPhaul Center also will provide leadership in re-establishing monthly meetings of child-care directors as well as co-sponsoring and providing 30 scholarships to a child-development conference at the University of Georgia Center for Continuing Education in February.
Finally, the grant provides funds that will be used to help another center begin working toward NAEYC accreditation.
Athletic director wins Stagg Award
Athletic director and former head football coach Vince Dooley is the 2001 recipient of the American Football Coaches Association’s Amos Alonzo Stagg Award.
The award, which honors those “whose services have been outstanding in the advancement of the best interests of football,” will be presented to Dooley at the Sears/AFCA Awards Luncheon Jan. 9 during the 2001 AFCA convention in Atlanta.
In addition to accepting the Stagg Award, Dooley will also be the featured speaker at the convention’s President’s Breakfast.
“I am very honored to be chosen as this year’s recipient of the Amos Alonzo Stagg award,” Dooley says. “As a former president and long-time member of the board of trustees of the AFCA, I have great appreciation for the significance of the award and the high esteem in which it is held by the membership.”
Dooley is the second coach with Georgia ties to receive the Stagg award. Glen Pop Warner, who coached at Georgia from 1895 to 1896, received the award in 1948.
Educational documentary available to broadcast, medical professionals
A video documentary on producing excellent health and medical programming is now available free of charge to broadcast and medical professionals throughout the United States. The subject of the documentary is the making of Frontline: The Lost Children of Rockdale County, the winner of the second annual Peabody/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award for Excellence in Health and Medical Programming. The producers received a $10,000 award to produce additional programming in the areas of health and/or medicine.
The Making of “Frontline: The Lost Children of Rockdale County” is available by calling 542-8983. The entry deadline for the Third Annual Peabody/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Award is Jan. 15. For more information on the free tape or the award, contact Kim Cretors at 542-8983 or by e-mail at kcretors@uga.edu. |
