CDA Programs

IMPORTANT NOTICES

Applications for the Fall Cohort are CLOSED

  Please email questions or concerns to eccda@jpschools.org

The Jefferson Parish Early Childhood Collaborative is excited to offer a CDA / Early Childhood Ancillary Certificate course.
This course is recommended for highly motivated lead teachers who are in need of their Early Childhood Ancillary Certificate.

The program includes

• Classes will held from 12:00 pm to 5:30 pm in person, at the Jefferson Parish Schools Administration Building, from 12:00pm-5:30pm. A start date is to be determined, but we hope to start the cohort in August 2024.
• Eighty (80) hours of online modules through our partnership with Teachstone
• Job-embedded coaching

What makes our program unique?

• Partnered with Teachstone
• Blended web-based modules with face-to-face instruction
• Job-embedded coaching
• Use of CLASS concepts and CLASS scores, as well as Teachstone coaching strategies to translate knowledge gained through coursework into classroom practices

Important Reminders:

After January 1, 2018, coursework for the Child Development Associate (CDA) certificate, technical diploma and certificate of technical studies must be earned from a Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) approved provider in order for an individual to be eligible for the Louisiana Early Childhood Ancillary Certificate.

Beginning July 2019all lead teachers working in publicly funded early learning centers must hold, at a minimum, a Louisiana Early Childhood Ancillary Certificate. For additional information about the Early Childhood Ancillary Certificate, click here.

More information on qualifying degrees can be found in the Early Childhood Ancillary Certificate FAQs

If you have any questions, please email eccda@jpschools.org or call Melissa Vegas at 504-383-1807.

Back to Early Childhood Collaborative