California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project

January 30, 2024

Facilitators:
Thoibi Rublaitus, Principal, Corona-Norco Adult Education
Mohammad Amini, ESL Program Specialist, LearningQuest - Stanislaus Literacy Centers
Rebecca Sutis, Director of ESL/Family Literacy, LearningQuest - Stanislaus Literacy Centers

Ever wondered how to empower new immigrants and refugees in adult education? Curious about breaking language barriers and creating inclusive environments? Join us in this interactive Adult Education Administrators Forum to discuss, share and learn from each other and from important community partners.

October 30, 2023

Facilitators:
Kathleen Porter, Poway Adult School

In recent months, many of us have experienced unprecedented turnover in both our own organizations and in the organizations of our community partners. This turnover can provide challenges for administrators to sustain efforts, continue to make progress toward goals and objectives, and may interrupt services and supports to our students. In this one-hour interactive webinar, we explore and share strategies to ensure we continue to make progress toward long-range goals even in the midst of tremendous change.

June 27, 2023

Facilitators:
Steve Curiel, Director, Huntington Beach Adult School, Huntington Beach Unified School District

Starting a new CTE class or expanding your CTE program pathway can be challenging. There's a lot to consider. How do you determine what's needed? Will it provide a sustainable wage or better for the students? Will you have partners involved and if so in what capacity? How do you find teachers? What will the program cost and how will it be funded? Does this provide a future IET opportunity? In this webinar we will go over these considerations and more, when planning your new CTE class or building your existing CTE program.

February 28, 2023

Facilitators:
Dr. Emma Diaz, Director, Inland Adult Education Consortium
Kathleen Porter, Executive Director, Career Technical, Adult and Alternative Education, Poway Unified School District
Dr. Thoibi Rublaitus, Principal, Corona-Norco Adult School, Corona-Norco Unified School District

In this interactive webinar, we explore structures and supports to facilitate students’ transitions to post-secondary education. We hear about what’s working and program models from two adult education program leaders. Finally, we consider specific strategies that may have potential for implementation in your environment.

December 13, 2022

Facilitators:
Kathleen Porter, Executive Director, Career Technical, Adult and Alternative Education, Poway Unified School District Dr. Thoibi Rublaitus, Principal, Corona-Norco Adult School, Corona-Norco Unified School District

In this interactive webinar, we discuss some of the challenges that get in the way of our ability to recruit and retain talented people, including a competitive labor market, credentialing requirements, turnover and loss of institutional knowledge - just to name a few! We also examine some of the innovative approaches adult education providers are implementing to overcome those challenges and consider strategies that may have potential to be implemented in your environment.

September 29, 2022

Facilitators:
Dr. Carolyn Zachry, Adult Education State Director, California Department of Education Kathleen Porter, Executive Director, Career Technical, Adult and Alternative Education, Poway Unified

In this interactive webinar, we explore the student journey and examine possible pain points along the way. We also consider principles to create structures and design our systems for belonging and identify data sources that may help to pinpoint particular areas of focus to support successful student retention, transitions, and goal attainment.

April 20, 2022

Facilitators:
Kathleen Porter, Poway Unified School District
Laura Chardiet, Los Angeles Unified Adult Education Division
Vittoria Abbate, Mt. Diablo Unified School District

It’s no secret that finding and retaining quality candidates in today’s labor market can be challenging. Hear from several Adult Education colleagues about their creative and innovative approaches to finding, attracting, and retaining quality employees in today’s labor market. Come away with practical ideas that you can replicate in your agency to create a strong and dynamic team.

January 26, 2022

Facilitators: Jacques LaCour and Sue Pon, Consultants and Former Administrators, Oakland Unified School District

Why is coaching so prevalent these days? How does it help move programs forward? How can you create a culture to support successful coaching? If you’re a school leader or if you’re simply interested in finding out what preparation is necessary to implement coaching, join us in a conversation exploring how to set up the conditions for success.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Identify elements of a culture that supports coaching
• Identify strategies to establish trust between coach and client/team
• Use a planning guide for starting and implementing coaching

October 19, 2021

Facilitators: Laura Chardiet, Los Angeles Unified Adult Education Division
Debalina Ganguli, CASAS
Thoibi Rublaitus, Corona-Norco Adult School

Join this webinar to learn about successful student recruitment efforts by two programs that have resulted in increased enrollment. Corona-Norco had lost 42% enrollment in the last school year due to the pandemic. With a focus on recruitment, enrollment is now just 13% shy of pre-pandemic numbers, a 52% increase from a year ago. The Los Angeles Unified Adult Education Division also implemented a successful outreach and recruitment effort and have increased their year over year enrollment by 9%. They are currently 24% below the 2019-20 pre-pandemic enrollment figures.

By the end of this webinar, participants will be able to:

• Leverage knowledge shared to turn enrollment challenges into opportunities
• Share ideas and strategies implemented to increase enrollment
• Build on and adapt tools and tricks shared to benefit their programs

June 8, 2021

Facilitators: Steve Curiel, Principal, Huntington Beach Adult School

Huntington Beach Adult School (HBAS) was able to reopen to in-person instruction in November of 2020 for one month before having to return to 100% online. HBAS reopened again to in-person as of February 2021. Join this webinar to hear how HBAS approached reopening and worked to provide the best possible learning environment for students.

In this session you will learn about:

• how to leverage the thinking and planning that was done at HBAS as you plan your reopening
• successful strategies that were implemented and the lessons learned that will benefit your program
• the current challenges HBAS faces as we continue our return to the new normal