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6 Hour Medication Administration

24 Hour Family Child Care Pre-Service Training

Including All Children and the Americans with Disabilities Act

Basic Health & Safety and Breastfeeding Awareness

NOTE: All First Aid & CPR and Medication Administration classes are .  ..

taught face-to- face in accordance with State of Maryland and . . . . . ..

Montgomery County COVID-19 guidelines and regulations. . . . . . . . . . .

.......Now Registering for 45 Hour Pre-Service.......

...................Instructor-Led Courses..................

Earn your 45 hour certificate in 2 and 1/2 weeks. Classes are held Saturdays and Sundays.

45 Hour Growth and Development

45 Hour School Age Methods and Materials

45 Hours Preschool Methods and Materials

45 Hour Infant/Toddler Methods and Materials

..Latest Memorandum from Department of Health and MSDE..

FROM: Mohammed Choudhury, State Superintendent of Schools, MSDE

.........Dennis R. Schrader, Secretary, MDH, 

.........Jinlene Chan, MD, MPH, Deputy Secretary for Public Health

.........Services, MDH

SUBJECT: Guidance to Support Safe In-Person Operations for PreK-12

............ Schools and Child Care Programs

DATE: July 22, 2022..

Please find attached updated guidance for school and child care programs developed by the Maryland Department of Health (MDH) and the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE). This guidance document provides recommendations for use by local school systems, nonpublic schools, child care programs, and local health departments to assist with decision-making about prevention strategies for decreasing transmission of infectious diseases, including SARS-CoV-2, in school and child care settings. In line with guidance from the CDC, schools and child care programs should put in place a core set of infectious disease prevention strategies as part of their normal operations. The addition and layering of COVID-19-specific prevention strategies should be tied to COVID-19 Community Levels and other local factors....

Click Here for Full Memorandum (Lots of online resources listed)

.MSDE Launches New Website Dedicated to COVID Fiscal.

............................Transparency...........................

BALTIMORE, MD (June 27, 2022) – As part of its commitment to fiscal stewardship and transparency, the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) announced today the online publication of Local Education Agency (LEA)-reported spending of federal Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER) pandemic resources:

.........www.marylandpublicschools.org/about/Pages/OFPOS/ESSER/index.aspx

The website contains data and information about federal revenue, contextualizes the amount of federal revenue with other State and Local LEA spending, provides visualizations of the amount of pandemic funding each LEA has spent, to date, by category, and includes an option to download source data files....

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