Using Data to Revise a Change in Practice

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

To be a recruiter in the Migrant Education Program (MEP) is to know change. And to be a successful recruiter is to embody flexibility, creativity, ingenuity, and determination. It is the job of the recruiter to identify a population that is, by definition, difficult to locate. On top of the inherent challenge of locating a migratory population, recruiters face untold variables.

This is the fifth of six publications in the Professional Learning Network (PLN) profiles series. This profile describes work accomplished by the San Diego County Office of Education, a MEP subgrantee in California known as Region 9.

Region 9 took part in a PLN in which participants used a continuous improvement process to identify families and youths closer to their date of arrival in the region.

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 the Professional Learning Network to Develop Leading Practices for Identification and Recruitment in California
• Continuous Improvement Increases Child Counts and Reshapes the Meaning of Teamwork