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Your Mississippi teachers see every age band and every lesson as soon as the account is created.
See a Mississippi infant teacher pull up a tummy-time activity, check ELBY's note on what to watch for and log an observation in a few taps.
Look through 52 weeks of plans for every age from birth to pre-K, with each activity matched to the standard it supports in Mississippi's early learning standards.
Meet with our team about your Mississippi center or home: the ages you serve, CCPP families, ELEVATE plans or an Early Learning Collaborative partnership.
Learning Beyond Paper is the only all-in-one cloud-based early childhood curriculum with a virtual instructional coach. Mississippi subscribers receive plans for five age bands, an observational assessment tool, family resources in two languages, 49.5 hours of LBP University courses, and four crosswalks to MDE’s Early Learning Standards for Classrooms Serving Infants Through Four-Year-Old Children.
Mississippi's Department of Education publishes one set of early learning standards for classrooms from infancy through age four, last revised in 2018. LBP's crosswalks follow it band by band: birth to 12 months, 13 to 24 months, 25 to 36 months and 3 to 5 years, covering the infant-toddler themes as well as the three- and four-year-old content areas such as literacy, math, science and the arts.
When a Mississippi teacher opens an activity, ELBY is already there with ideas: an easier version for a child who needs help, a harder step for a child racing ahead, and the skills to observe and record.
Every Mississippi subscription comes with LBP University: 49.5 hours of on-demand professional learning. Staff can take courses on their own schedule and learn the curriculum by teaching it, with ELBY guiding each activity.
ELEVATE's first badge, Educational Interaction, centres on how teachers engage with children. LBP lessons pair each activity with a CLASS® key and ELBY prompts about what to say and notice, giving teachers practice with the interactions that work focuses on.
MSDH requires 15 contact hours of staff development a year from caregivers and directors. Courses teach the ideas; LBP's structured lessons and ELBY's coaching help teachers put them to use with children the next morning.
Spanish is the most common language other than English spoken in Mississippi homes, with about 73,700 speakers age five and up in Census data reported by USAFacts. LBP includes Spanish and English activities and family pages in every subscription.
Mississippi programs use one yearly subscription for every classroom and teacher on site. Infant, toddler and pre-K rooms are all included, with no extra charge as your enrollment grows.
Your Mississippi teachers see every age band and every lesson as soon as the account is created.
A Mississippi teacher can open the day's activity on a tablet in the classroom or a phone on the playground, with the supply list and ELBY's prompt in view.
LBP maps its lessons to the Mississippi Early Learning Standards for Classrooms Serving Infants Through Four-Year-Old Children, published by the Mississippi Department of Education in 2018. There is a crosswalk for each age band: birth to 12 months, 13 to 24 months, 25 to 36 months and 3 to 5 years. All are listed on our curriculum alignments page, and lessons also carry Head Start ELOF references.
The Mississippi State Department of Health licenses child care facilities through its Child Care Facilities Licensure Branch, which also inspects and monitors them. LBP supports that relationship by giving every room written, age-appropriate plans and a record of completed activities and observations. It works alongside the MSDH regulations rather than replacing any of them.
ELEVATE is MDHS’s badge-based quality support system for child care, rolling out first to programs in the Child Care Payment Program before opening to others. Year one centres on the Educational Interaction badge and its teacher training modules. LBP backs up that work in the classroom with planned activities, CLASS® keys and ELBY prompts about interactions. Badges are awarded through MDHS’s process, so we do not claim LBP earns one.
Yes. The Child Care Payment Program, run by MDHS’s Division of Early Childhood Care and Development, helps eligible families pay for care with a certificate. Your curriculum choice has no effect on a family’s certificate or on your payments. With LBP, children in CCPP seats get the same planned lessons, observation tools and Spanish or English family materials as everyone else.
Early Learning Collaboratives, set up under a 2013 state law, bring Head Start, licensed child care and schools together to offer pre-K, and MDE oversees them alongside State Invested Pre-K. Collaborative pre-K classrooms follow MDE’s program requirements, so check curriculum questions for those seats with your collaborative lead. LBP gives the infant, toddler and three-year-old rooms in your building a full year of plans that build toward the same state standards.
MSDH asks every caregiver, director and director designee for 15 contact hours of staff development each licensure year, with training listed through the LIFT-ED portal. LBP University’s 49.5 hours of on-demand professional learning come with your subscription and help teachers deliver the curriculum. Confirm with MSDH which training qualifies before counting any LBP hours.
One yearly subscription covers the whole Mississippi site: all classrooms from infants to pre-K, all teachers, ELBY, LBP University, the observational assessment tool, both language versions and the Mississippi crosswalks. Adding a classroom or a teacher does not change the price. Customers can also ask us for grant-writing support.
Yes, in full. Each activity and family resource has an English and a Spanish version, included in the subscription. About 127,000 Mississippians age five and older speak a language other than English at home, most often Spanish, according to Census data compiled by USAFacts. Teachers can send family pages in the language each household uses.
Sign up and your Mississippi program gets the complete curriculum for 30 days, for every classroom. Use it with real children, review the Mississippi crosswalks, and let teachers try ELBY. If it fits your program, keep going with a yearly subscription.
Yes. A family child care provider in Mississippi might have an infant, a pair of toddlers and a four-year-old in one room. LBP’s five age bands sit under one login, so the provider can plan for each child’s age and share family pages in English or Spanish. See our family child care page for details.
Sensory, language, and attachment-focused lessons for ages 0–12 months.
Independence, early language, and mobility activities for ages 12–24 months.
Creativity, communication, and social growth for ages 24–36 months.
Standards-aligned, play-based lessons for children ages 3–4 years.
Kindergarten readiness and school-preparedness for children ages 4–5 years.
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Lessons follow MDE's 2018 standards from infancy through age four, and daily use builds the planning and observation records that licensing and quality visits ask to see.
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