Related Consortia
Identification & Recruitment Consortium
The Identification and Recruitment Consortium (IDRC) seeks to improve the proper and timely identification and recruitment (ID&R) of eligible migratory children whose education is interrupted. IDRC will assist state/local education agencies to develop, promote, and adopt enrollment, placement, and credit accrual policies to meet the unique needs of migratory children. The key activities and outcomes of the IDRC include: 1) building a cadre of trained recruiters and MEP staff to increase the proper and timely ID&R of migratory children; (2) creating and disseminating ID&R capacity-building tools to improve recruiters’ and other ID&R staff’s capacity to conduct ID&R and use data to inform ID&R; (3) developing an electronic system that streamlines ID&R tracking to increase recruiter efficiency/ recruitment time; (4) coordinating with agribusinesses employing migratory workers and agencies serving them to build/optimize relationships to facilitate ID&R; (5) revising/ developing state ID&R plans to include credit accrual policies to meet students’ unique needs; and (6) preparing materials on keeping safe and healthy when conducting ID&R.
Instructional Services for Out-of-School and Secondary Youth Consortium
Instructional Services for Out-of-school and Secondary Youth (iSOSY) is focused on increasing state and staff capability to provide instruction that will improve the educational attainment of OSY and secondary students at-risk of dropping out. iSOSY’s objectives include developing online delivery of instruction in self-paced, synchronous, and asynchronous formats; defining what migratory students need to know to participate successfully in alternative pathways to graduation; providing training and information about assessment materials to determine academic and English language skills; and providing goal setting/career awareness and personal wellness activities to support participation. iSOSY also aims to support migratory youth to obtain an HSED or regular high school diploma and finally, to increase knowledge and understanding of strategies for staff participating in iSOSY to promote graduation and attainment of postsecondary credentials appropriate for the needs of their students.
Migratory Parent Empowerment Consortium
The Migratory Parent Empowerment Consortium (MPEC) is designed to strengthen the involvement of migratory parents in the education of their children including supporting their children’s mathematics skills needed to be successful in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) fields. MPEC’s objectives are: 1) parents will support their child’s literacy and mathematics skills by using resources accessed through the Parent Portal of the Migrant Literacy NET; 2) MEP staff participating in MPEC training will increase their capacity to conduct project activities and provide services to migratory parents to strengthen their involvement in their child’s education. 3) migratory students will use the consortium’s online mathematics tutorials with support from their parents to improve their mathematics skills, and 4) migratory parents will use online parent/child literacy tutorials to increase their capacity to provide parent-guided learning in the home.