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WestEd’s Migrant Education Services team provides technical assistance and support to the California Department of Education (CDE) to cultivate the highest quality identification and recruitment (I&R) practices across the state for the Migrant Education Program.

The goal of the MEP is to ensure that all migratory children and youth reach challenging academic standards and graduate with a high school diploma (or complete a High School Equivalency Diploma) that prepares them for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment.

About the Brief

This is the fourth of six publications in the Professional Learning Network (PLN) profiles series. This profile share how staff members from the 20 subgrantees in California’s MEP attend two years of a professional learning network in which they make progress on areas of focus. Their focus areas are determined locally and based on their own identification and recruitment data.

Each subgrantee is involved in the PLN for two years. In the first year, they learn principles and tools to continue making progress in a problem of practice. In the second year, they either continue to work on the same problem of practice or establish a new one. The goal is that after two years,  subgrantees will continue to improve their methods of identification and recruitment of as many eligible children in the MEP.

Further Reading

Read other profiles in the PLN series:

• Identifying Students Closer to Their Qualifying Move Date by Utilizing an Interactive Enrollee Form
• Layered Training to Harness the Power of the Subsequent Qualifying Move
• Maximizing Child Counts: A Collaborative Approach
• Using Data to Revise a Change in Practice
• Continuous Improvement Increases Child Counts and Reshapes the Meaning of Teamwork