The Ohio Migrant Education Center (OMEC) is located in Fremont, Ohio.
Under the direction of Jose P. Salinas, the Ohio Migrant Education Center provides assistance to school districts in Ohio that serve migrant children. Through supplemental resources, such as thematic units, teachers are given access to materials to help promote educational success and to make learning more meaningful for the ESL migrant population in their classrooms. Former OMEC Director, John Kreis, and the Reading Development Center at Bowling Green State University have created a broad range of thematic units for students in grades K-8 that revolve around the migrant experience. For example, “I am Special” is an interdisciplinary thematic unit designed for students in grades 1-2 that focuses on promoting positive self-esteem and raises awareness on the strengths that migrant children have to offer in the classroom. All of the units can be integrated into the regular classroom and contain complete objectives, daily lesson plans, and worksheets to go along with each lesson.
Another component of the OMEC is its Migrant Education Program (MEP). Currently, they are offering fourteen summer school MEP programs at various locations throughout Ohio for migrant children during the summer of 2007. The OMEC website also lists links to health fairs and a webpage for migrant parents. Funding for the OMEC is made possible by Title I- Part C, which is funding that is allocated to the Ohio Department of Education (ODE) based on the number of identified migrant children ages 3 to 21 in the state of Ohio. Certain school districts are given this money to operate a migrant education program (MEP) during the summer as well as to use for supplemental services throughout the school year. The OMEC coordinates the services that are granted to migrant children and ensures that all activities and services are reported to Casimiro Martinez, the State Director of Migrant Education at the Ohio Department of Education.
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