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Rotary Club: Rancho Bernardo (San Diego) Project Title: Imperial Valley Migrant Eductn 1. Describe the project. What was done, when and where did project activities take place? Description of the project: Implementation of the Learning Upgrade Virtual Education Program for Migrant Children in Imperial Valley, California, USA. The Rotary Club of Rancho Bernardo requested a District Grant to provide child education to a group of 75 children of migrant workers impacted by CovID-19. Many had been quarantined, schools closed and they were in need of basic reading, math and digital instruction, impacting their preparation for educational success. What was done: The funds were used to purchase on-line system licenses from Learning Upgrade (2019 X-Prize Winners for Literacy) for each child at a cost of $40 per person per year for a total budget of $3,000. The single one-time Payment was made to Learning Upgrade and received in December 2021 (‘Paid’ Invoice has been uploaded). In cooperation with the Senior Director of Imperial County Office of Education Migrant Office who manages over 12 school districts Learning Upgrade started to train School District Student Coordinators, Teachers and the Migrant Office Coordinators on the system. The above educators jointly selected the candidate children of migrant workers. Importantly, rural School Districts in Imperial Valley provided students with their own smartphones/digital devices to remain in contact with teachers and for out of school hour lessons. Connecting children to Learning Upgrade was easy and learning the system was simplified allowing them to go on-line anywhere and anytime, as importantly, the Learning Upgrade system is not geographically limited. If there is a wireless signal and because each child has a unique ID, the student can continue syllabus studies. The School District staff, Migrant Office Coordinator and Rotary members were able to monitor in real-time each student's progress using a web-based dashboard, including detailed assessment reports and time-on-task. Every student session is logged with a time stamp, device used and lesson completed. This high level of accountability helped ensure that the licenses purchased made and make an impact to transform the lives of the students. The virtual training started immediately in December in the Imperial Valley. 2. How many people benefited from this project? 75 children of migrant workers were selected, trained and are active in their on-line system education. 3. Who were the beneficiaries, how were they impacted by this project, and what humanitarian need was met? Children of migrant workers benefited. A basic supplementary education, approved by the US Department of Education for reading, mathematics, and digital instruction remained missing for the children of migrants, resulting in a significantly below par graduation rate. Local school districts, including parents, believed that an additional flexible and mobile way to study and learn was essential. Thanks to this District Grant and the Learning Upgrade on-line system, the children of migrant workers gained access to basic education, the benefit provided by the grant extends beyond these children and will make an impact to transform the lives of their families and the future of the overall community. The Rotary Club of Rancho Bernardo proposed this Humanitarian project in Rotary’s classification of Basic Education and Literacy. 4. How many Rotarians participated in the project? 8-12 5. What did they do? Please give at least two examples, not including financial support provided to the project. The Rotary Club of Rancho Bernardo (RCRB) and its members had overall Operational Project Management of the grant and they managed the interaction between all the parties (Learning Upgrade, ICOE, School Districts, parents and the local community). Including monitoring, via the Learning Upgrade Dashboard the actual migrant children student progress. Providing and receiving regular feedback, analysis and solutions from all parties. The Calexico Rotary Club, was/is the On-site Imperial Valley Project Managers. Importantly, its local Rotary members are senior executives in the school districts with significant home-grown knowledge. These executives, hand-in-hand with Imperial County Office of Migrant Education (ICOE), jointly completed vital surveys, community assessments, community parent action committee (PAC) meetings, interviews, focus groups, asset inventory and community mapping. Thirdly, fellow Rotarians some from other Imperial Valley Rotary Clubs: -Provided mentoring support to the Schools and Migrant Office -Volunteering to help and pair with after-school student training -Added their local knowledge and understand of the migrant culture -Provided encouragement to children -Helped celebrate educational milestones such as program start, planning intermediate and final exam successes, etc. -Advised on future college and university direction 6. If a cooperating organization was involved, what was its role? 6.1. Learning Upgrade: Provides world-class on-line digital education to the migrant community 6.2. Imperial County Office of Education, Migrant Office: Federally responsible for the supplementary education of migrant children by providing equitable opportunities. 6.3. Local School Districts: Provides CA state funded education instruction to school district students Learning Upgrade is locally based within Rotary District 5340 and is highly qualified to provide on-line digital education to the migrant community. Over 3 million students globally have been enrolled in their innovative set of courses. Learning Upgrade provides outstanding monitoring and evaluation capabilities. Both students and educators have access to up-to-the minute live individual child records and real-time monitoring of student’s progress through the Learning Upgrade web-based Dashboard. This includes detailed assessment and time-on-task reports. Every student session is logged with a time stamp, device used and lesson completed. Imperial County Office of Education (ICOE) Migrant Office (Region VI) of California is federally responsible for migrant child supplementary education as well as monitoring and measuring each child's progress. The ICOE has had on-line experience educating legal resident adult migrants (fieldworkers) who missed formal education because they were constantly traveling as children. The ICOE issues an annual Migrant Education Plan based on the results of the previous year and then plans for the upcoming year. There are over 7,000 migrant children, ages 5-18 in the region. The Migrant Education Plan of 2020-2021 records a dismal less than 40% annual pass rate. The Local School Districts are committed to increasing student academic achievement. They serve local residents and migrant students and their families by providing supplementary programs such as school readiness, after-school tutoring, summer camps, and university-based summer institutes. 7. Income
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