Migrant Student Support Providers
Ana Rivera
Migrant Student Services
Cecila Diaz
Migrant Student Services
The goal of the Migrant Education Program is to ensure that all migrant students reach challenging academic standards and graduate with a high school diploma (or complete a GED) that prepares them for responsible citizenship, further learning, and productive employment.
Our Migrant Student Support Providers (MSSPs) perform a wide variety of duties to ensure that migrant students achieve academic success and the needs of migrant families are met:
Performing daily in-school tutoring to assist students in mastering academic standards as well as English language acquisition as needed;
Conducting frequent Identification and Recruitment to bring new families into the WCSS migrant program;
Coordinating three Parent Advisory Council (PAC) meetings each school year;
Hosting parent workshops based on parents' needs;
Working with out-of-school youth whose work schedules do not allow them to attend school during traditional hours;
Working with children in the Early Learning Program as young as three years old to teach them basic skills such as number recognition, ABCs, and colors;
Accompanying truancy officers during home visits to serve as interpreters for Hispanic families;
Serving as interpreters/translators as needed;
Assisting new Hispanic families during the school enrollment process;
Serving as the liaison between the school and Hispanic families.