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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 first of six publications in the Professional Learning Network (PLN) profiles series. This brief describes work accomplished by the Merced County Office of Education Migrant Education Program, an MEP subgrantee in California known as Region 3.

Region 3 took part in a PLN in which participants used a continuous improvement process focused on improving and standardizing a new enrollee form to help recruiters apply consistent and robust strategies in their approach to the identification process.

Further Reading

Read other profiles in the PLN series:

• Layered Training to Harness the Power of the Subsequent Qualifying Move
• Maximizing Child Counts: A Collaborative Approach
• Using the Professional Learning Network to Develop Leading Practices for Identification and Recruitment in California
• Using Data to Revise a Change in Practice
• Continuous Improvement Increases Child Counts and Reshapes the Meaning of Teamwork