Youth Education
REO provides supplemental instructional and supportive services to migrant summer school students and year-round migrant students in small, rural schools. These services are funded through the Office of Public Instruction’s Migrant Education Program.
Migrant children have specific needs and require special help. REO helps fill in the gaps of education that migrant children might have missed. We can help these students graduate high school or obtain their GED. We try to show students that they can achieve their goals and dreams.
Flathead Lake Migrant Program
The Flathead Lake Migrant Education Program is the largest migrant education summer program in Montana. The program consists of a site-based school program located at Polson Middle School and a tutorial program located in the orchards in the afternoon and evenings. These programs are operated in partnership with the Polson School district.
Many migrant students don’t receive the quality education that they should, because of mobility, language and poverty. The Flathead Migrant Education Program strives to provide an educational experience which can help children reduce educational disruptions and other problems that can result from repeated moves.
Youth Technology Program
Our mobile computer lab called the Matrix (Mobile Access to Technology Resources and Instructional Experiences) was launched by REO to help disadvantaged migrant students. The Matrix provides instructional programs that integrate computers and other technology with reading and math lessons. This program is designed specifically with migrant students in mind, who travel to Montana with their parents.
Rural Schools Program
Project MASTERY, Mobile Access for Students and Teachers to Educational Resources Year-round helps provide many rural schools with new books, games, computers and other quality educational materials.
In cooperation with the Midwest Migrant Educational Resource Center (MMERC) in Minnesota, qualifying schools can borrow from an extensive lending library of educational materials. Project MASTERY provides assistance to these schools. We help schools by making curriculum and instructional resources available to eligible migrant students and the small, rural schools they attend.
MASTERY Instructors travel to the smallest of Montana’s rural schools to identify eligible students and review resources with teachers. Because of the sparse population and agricultural nature of the state, many small Montana schools have students who qualify.
