College Place Public Schools - Migrant / Bilingual

College Place Public Schools

"focusing on kids and their learning"

1755 South College Ave. • College Place, WA 99324
Phone: (509) 525-4827 Fax: (509) 525-3741

Migrant / Bilingual

Martha Anderson -

Migrant / Bilingual Teacher

Mrs. Anderson's Classroom

Davis Elementary

Meadow Brook Intermediate

John Sager Middle School

Title I Part C Migrant Program

State Transitional Bilingual Program

The Migrant Education Program is a federally funded program that offers instructional assistance above and beyond the instruction being received in the general education classroom. These services are provided to ensure that migratory children have access to and receive high quality support to enable them to meet the same challenging state performance and content standards that all children are expected to meet by overcoming educational disruption, cultural and language barriers, and health-related problems that result from repeated moves.

Transitional bilingual instruction" means a system of instruction which:
(a) Uses two languages, one of which is English, as a

means of instruction to build upon and expand
language skills to enable a student to achieve

competency in English;
(b) Teaches concepts and knowledge in the primary

language of a student, while the student also
acquires English language skills.
(c) Tests students in the subject matter in English.

"Primary language" means the language most often used by a student (not necessarily by parents, guardians, or others) for communication in the student's place of residence

Davis Elementary provides supplemental services for migrant children who experience educational disruptions caused by repeated moves and changes in schools due to parents seeking temporary or seasonal employment in agriculture or fishing. Migrant children share many risk factors in common with other disadvantaged children: poverty, poor health, disabilities, school disruptions, cultural and language difficulties and social isolation.

Davis Elementary, Meadow Brook Intermediate, and John Sager Middle School offer supplemental support to students who meet the following two conditions:
(a) The primary language of the student must be other than

English; and
(b) The student's English skills must be sufficiently lacking

or absent as to delay learning.

Services provided may include:

Services to ensure that special educational needs of migrant children aged 3 to 21 are met.
The provision of advocacy and outreach services in education, health, nutrition, and social services.
Coordination of services within and across states as well as transfer of health and educational records.
Family literacy activities and programs.
Parent involvement and parent advisory councils to provide information on curriculum, academic assessment, school programs, etc.
Active district recruitment to find and enroll migrant students.

The two types of program models used in CPPS are:

Early-Exit Bilingual Education (Transitional Bilingual Education)

Early-Exit Bilingual models are identical to Late-Exit models with the only difference being that this model is designed to move ELL children from their native other than English language to English in the first three-year period of their school's primary grades. This model relies on the teacher teaching in the students' native language throughout the model. The degree to which the teacher utilizes the students' native language is directly proportional to the degree to which the student has acquired English language proficiency.

Content English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) (Sheltered Immersion)

Content ESL models rely on the classroom teacher of record, who has been ESL trained, to teach the ELL child the entire curriculum while keeping the ELL child together with the rest of his/her students at all times. The ESL trained teacher employs ESL techniques to ensure his/her ELL students learn the academic curriculum while they are in the process of becoming English proficient. Teachers need to know ONLY English for implementing this model and all instruction is delivered in the target language, English. Content ESL models are effective from K-12th grades and for all subject areas.

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