| Year |
MERITO Goals |
Task Description |
Target Hispanic
Audience |
| 2001-2002
|
i. MERITO Program
Organization |
i. Recruit MERITO Staff &emdash; Program
Manager and two Bilingual Education Specialists.
ii. Recruit MERITO Oversight Board and
Education Committee to identify and develop evaluation strategies
and initial bilingual outreach products.
|
ii. MERITO Partnership
Members |
|
1. Professional Development Program
|
1a. Develop and implement a Teacher
Institute in partnership with the National Hispanic University
and Calif. State University’s Moss Landing Marine Labs.
1b. Provide and coordinate four paid
internships to Hispanic students enrolled in California
State University, Monterey Bay. Emphasis on resource management
applications of GIS technology and issue-based marine education.
|
1a. Pre-service & in-service teachers
1b. Undergraduate & graduate level
students
|
| 2. Site-Based
Community Bilingual Ocean Outreach Program: |
2a. Provide a Bilingual Education Specialist
to implement outreach programs in partnership with Elkhorn
Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (ESNERR).
2b. Provide a Bilingual Education Specialist
to implement outreach programs in partnership with California
State Parks, Monterey County.
|
2a. K-12th grade students
& families
2b. K-12th grade students
& families
|
|
3. Community-Based Bilingual Ocean Outreach
Program:
|
3a. Develop and
implement outreach programs with the City of Salinas’
Federal Weed & Seed Initiative - through its 2nd
Chance and Kid’s House Programs.
3b. Develop and implement outreach programs
with the City of Watsonville Parks and Recreation &
Neighborhood Services and Pajaro Valley Unified School District
(PVUSD) Extended Learning Programs.
3c. Develop and implement a MERITO partnership
to support CSU Monterey Bay RISE Program’s need for
science enrichment, and contribute to a S.E.A. Lab Monterey
Bay program curriculum.
3d. Develop and implement a MESA Program
called "Natural Resource Management Days" that would include
two days of focused national marine sanctuary activities
for 80 Hispanic middle school students, 3 times/year.
|
3a. "At-risk", 5th-12th
grade students & their parents
3b. K-12th grade students
3c. 7th &emdash;12th
grade students
3d. 6th-14th grade
students
|
| Year |
MERITO Goals |
Task Description |
Target Hispanic
Audience |
| 2002
-2003
|
1.
Professional Development Program: |
1a. Continue and expand teacher institute
offerings in partnership with the National Hispanic University
& CSU’s Moss Landing Marine Labs.
|
1a. Pre-service & in-service teachers
|
| 1b. Establish
a teacher master credential program in partnership with CSU
Monterey Bay and local organizations that offer marine science
workshops. |
1b. Pre-service
& in-service teachers |
| 1c. Continue to
provide and coordinate internships with CSU, Monterey Bay. |
1c. Undergraduate
& graduate level students |
| 1d. Establish
and coordinate two graduate level internships in partnership
with Society of the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans
(SACNAS). |
1d. Graduate level students
|
| 1e. Begin investigation
into across the border partnerships with Baja California,
Mexico regarding student and teacher exchange programs. |
1e. TBD |
|
2.Site-Based Community Bilingual Ocean
Outreach Program:
|
2a. Continue work with ESNERR and California
State Parks, Monterey County.
|
2a. K-12th grade students
& families
|
| 2b. Expand MERITO
programs to include California State Parks, Santa Cruz Co.,to
be based at the Sanctuary Visitor Center at Sea Cliff State
Beach. |
2b. K-12th grade students
& families
|
|
3. Community-Based Bilingual Ocean Outreach
Program:
|
3a. Continue work
with City of Salinas, City of Watsonville, CSUMB’s RISE
Program, S.E.A. Lab Monterey Bay, and UC Santa Cruz’s
MESA Program. |
3a. "At-risk", K-14 grade students
& their parents
|
| 3b. Develop an
outreach program in partnership with agricultural industry
by working closely with the Coalition of Central Coast County
Farm Bureaus. |
3b. Migrant farm workers & their
families
|
|
3c. Recruit and train Hispanic community
members to assist with Sanctuary Citizen Watershed Monitoring
Network by collecting water quality data.
|
3c. Secondary students & adults
|
|
Year
|
MERITO Goals
|
Task Description
|
Target Hispanic Audience
|
| 2003-2004 |
1.
Professional Development Program: |
1a. Continue
to refine and expand teacher institute offerings in partnership
with the National Hispanic University & CSU’s Moss
Landing Marine Labs. |
1a. Pre-service & in-service teachers
|
| 1b. Continue
the teacher master graduate level program in partnership with
CSU, Monterey Bay and local organizations that offer marine
science workshops. |
1b. Pre-service & in-service teachers
|
| 1c. Continue
to provide and coordinate internships with CSU, Monterey Bay. |
1c. Undergraduate & graduate level
students
|
| 1d. Continue
to coordinate two graduate level internships in partnership
with Society of the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans
(SACNAS). |
1d. Graduate
level students |
| 1e. Develop
& Implement international student and teacher exchange
programs across-the- border with Baja California, Mexico. |
1e. TBD |
| 2.
Site-Based Community Bilingual Ocean Outreach Program: |
2a. Develop
& implement a partnership with Monterey County’s
Office of Education Migrant Education Division. |
2a. Pre-K-12th
grade students & families |
| 2b. Continue
site-based work with ESNERR, and California State Parks. |
2b. K-12th grade students
& families
|
|
3. Community-Based Bilingual Ocean Outreach
Program:
|
3a. Continue
work with City of Salinas, City of Watsonville, CSU, Monterey
Bay’s RISE Program, S.E.A. Lab Monterey Bay, and UC Santa
Cruz’s MESA Program. |
3a. "At-risk", K-14 grade students
& their parents
|
|
3b. Continue & expand outreach program
in partnership with the Ag. Industry by working closely
with the Coalition of Central Coast County Farm Bureaus.
|
3b. Migrant farm workers & their
families
|
