Resources for Students with Migrant Working Families

Assist the local education agencies to develop the supplemental instructional and supportive services necessary to deliver a quality "seamless" educational program to each identified migrant student in Ohio.

The Migrant Education Program is designed to help migratory children overcome disruptions in education, cultural and language barriers, social isolation, health-related problems and other factors that inhibit their abilities to do well in school. It also prepares them to make successful transitions to higher education or employment.

Equips families and students with the tools they need to succeed in a virtual or blended learning environment. Provides families with short video tutorials along with written instructions for them to easily access the online education apps and services being used in their child’s school. Has a link to a google file that is organized in a really nice way with example tutorials already included. The first tab of the google file has all google apps, and the second tab contains tutorials for non-google apps.

Individual teachers or, better yet, the school as a whole can make a copy of this google file and work together to tailor the tutorials to include the apps and services families and students will need to know about. This process, in an ideal world, would spur important conversations for your school team about opportunities to streamline the number of apps and services families need to be able to log into across teachers and grade levels.

Colorín Colorado is a national multimedia project that offers a wealth of bilingual, research-based information, activities, and advice for educators and families of English language learners (ELLs).

The Colorín Colorado website is dedicated to helping young English language learners learn to read and succeed. This website is an excellent source for updated, translated information on Coronavirus and ELL/immigrant supports for families. Their recent post highlights considerations that can help individual educators, schools, and districts support families.

The post includes information on the following topics:

• Families’ access to essential COVID-19 information

• Families access to updates related to school closures

• Unique perspectives and concerns that ELL/Immigrant families might have

• Food security, health care, finances, and safety

• Learning at home and staying connected

• Speaking out against bullying and discrimination related to COVID-19

• Making the most of lessons learned

Ohio Translation Services, LLC is a language services company, offering translation, interpreting, DTP/page layout, lessons, information research and other language services in many languages in Ohio.

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• Document Translation

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