The Early Childhood Education Distance
Partnership Program (ECEDP)
is a unique distance learning program that helps Head Start teachers and Early Childhood Educators complete bachelor’s degrees in Early Childhood Education from Montana State University in Bozeman. Online course delivery enables ECEDP students to live and work in their home communities while connecting with other Head Start teachers throughout reservations in the state of Montana.
About the program
Federally funded by the Office of Indian Education, the ECEDP covers tuition and fees, a laptop computer, and thr ee years of home internet service for each student participant who has completed an associate’s degree in Early Childhood Education. Successful completion of two years of coursework through the ECEDP earns these students bachelor’s degrees at MSU.
See the 2008-10 Course Schedule.
| The ECEDP program helps Montana tribal Head Start programs meet the National Head Start Association and Congressional mandates that demand that at least 50 percent of all Head Start teachers obtain a bachelor's degree in early childhood education by 2010. Initiated by Dr. Laura Massey in 2000 following the 1998 Head Start Act, the ECEDP has already successfully graduated three Head Start teacher cohorts. More than thirty Native American ECEDP students have received bachelor’s degrees in Early Childhood Education from Montana State University since the program’s inception.
ECEDP contacts
Dr. Laura Massey is both ECEDP Project Director and an Associate Professor in MSU's Health and Human Development Department. Dr. Massey provides online course delivery, administration, and support for the ECEDP program. To see the 2008-2010 Course Schedule, click here. Contact Dr. Massey at 406-994-3300.
Adjunct Instructor Christine Lux is the ECEDP Program Coordinator. Christine provides administrative support for the ECEDP program and can be reached at 406-994-5005.
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