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Don't Let Them Go Without a Fight: How the Migrant Program Works to Prevent Dropouts

Learn strategies to prevent migrant student dropouts, tackle special risks they face, and help them continue education if they leave. Get insights from Idaho's graduation rates and studies on Latino dropouts.

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Don't Let Them Go Without a Fight: How the Migrant Program Works to Prevent Dropouts

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  1. Don’t Let Them GoWithout a FightHow the Migrant Program Works to Prevent DropoutsSarah SeamountMigrant Education Program CoordinatorVickie McCulloughIdaho Connects Online Head of School

  2. Objectives • Participant will understand special risks to dropping out faced by migrant students. • Participant will have strategies to prevent students from leaving school. • If students do leave, participants will have strategies for helping students pursue some form of continuing education.

  3. Idaho Graduation Rates

  4. 2017-2018 Idaho Graduation Rates

  5. Research on Latino Dropouts in Idaho • In 2004-2005, an Idaho principal did a study on Latino dropouts in the Magic Valley. • She studied 9 dropouts: 5 female, 4 male who dropped out from 15-19 years old from three different districts.

  6. Consider the following questions while discussing one or more of the quotes with a partner. • What is similar/different from my school or district? • How do we combat these situations? • What internal or external obstacles do we face?

  7. What to do? When in trouble or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout? NO

  8. Attack When the Problem Starts Elementary School: Establish relationships with parents early. Reinforce the benefits of their inclusion in the school world of their child. Connect with kids. Do home visits. Middle School: Establish clubs for these students that meet during breakfast or lunch and address student feelings of inadequacy and the negative effects of stereotyping. Bring in speakers and maybe visit a local university or college. Find insistent, caring staff to form relationships with kids.

  9. Keeping Them Engaged in High School • Migrant Graduation Specialists • Check & Connect • Parent outreach • Credit recovery

  10. Idaho Connects Online (ICON) • The students who succeed are those whose liaisons are fully involved: checking the student’s time logged in, assignments turned in, grades on assessments and communicating with students and parents. • To facilitate a migrant student’s enrollment, call or email Vickie McCullough at 208-475-3093 or Vickie.McCullough@iconschool.org.

  11. What can a virtual school do for my kids? • Offer a fully accredited school option so that credits are transferrable • Offer an option for students that cannot school during typical school hours or timeframe with 24/7 online school access (including summer options) • Offer an option for students that cannot attend their traditional school while in Mexico or on medical leave

  12. Questions to Ask Virtual Schools as You Seek Support Do you have flexible enrollment? What is the process for coming to the school? Do you provide technology? Can the content be read to the students in their native language? Can you give me access to view their accounts so that I can support them while they are with you? Do you offer dual enrollment? Do you offer a full time option for those that need it? Do you offer an option for virtual courses that we can pay for?

  13. What if all efforts fail? • Flow chart • Exit interviews • Options for Success

  14. Questions?Sarah Seamount | Migrant Education Program CoordinatorIdaho State Department of Education650 W State Street, Boise, ID 83702208 332 6800 sseamount@sde.Idaho.govwww.sde.Idaho.gov/el-migrant/migrant

  15. Idaho Dropout Study Hondo, C., Gardiner, M. E., & Sapien, Y. (2008). Latino dropouts in rural America: Realities and possibilities. Albany: State University of New York Press.

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