California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project

Facilitator: Karen Bautista, Inland Career Education CenterThis webinar is a forum for sharing of innovations and progress toward the partnership-building and the MOU development. The WIOA Partnership is an innovation in itself, and education partners across the state can share innovations for maximum benefit. 

Facilitator: Karen Bautista, Inland Career Education CenterConsidering the focus on a regional approach to adult education, as well as the new WIOA regulations, adult education programs will have increased opportunities to partner with other agencies. It is important to identify the strengths of your program and the brand that you want your program to have. Learn how one agency battled against their existing brand to change it in the eyes of the students, the community, and potential partners.  

Facilitator: Kathleen Porter, Executive Director, Career Technical and Adult Education, Poway Unified School DistrictCareer Pathways has become a hot topic in workforce development and education policy at both the state and federal levels. The facilitator discussed career pathways and what adult education administrators need to know to have successful career pathways programs. During the webinar, the facilitator examined what career pathways are, why they are important, and what value they have provide the students you serve.  

Facilitators: Dom Gagliardi, Principal, Adult and Career Technical Education, Escondido High School District, and Kathleen Porter, Executive Director, Career Technical and Adult Education, Poway Unified School DistrictAs multiple funding initiatives call for regional responses, forming strategic partnerships and collaborations may be more important today than ever before. In this webinar, the facilitators reviewed some of those initiatives and identified partners either required or likely to support each initiative. They also examined elements of effective institutional relationships and outlined actions you can take to create more effective alliances.  

Facilitator: Steve Curiel, Principal, Huntington Beach Adult SchoolIn 2014–2015 the American Institutes for Research launched a field test program for an Adult Education New Teacher Induction Program. Similar to Beginning Teacher Support and Assessment programs provided to K-12 teachers, this program provided a rigorous and relevant induction process for new Adult Education teachers. This field test, in which Huntington Beach Adult School participated, provided an extraordinary opportunity for a school to accelerate the effectiveness of their beginning teachers and to leverage the experience of their master teachers as mentors. The field test activities focused on improving the supports for and the effectiveness of their new and experienced teachers in providing high-quality, evidence-based instruction.  

Facilitator: Andre Pecina, Principal, Fresno Adult SchoolIn April 2013, the Office of Career Technical and Adult Education (OCTAE) released the College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) for Adult Education which prepare our students to transition more successfully to postsecondary education and workforce, In the spring of 2014, OCTAE, in conjunction with StandardsWork, began offering CCRS training Institutes across the country. Fresno Adult School was one of California agencies to participate in these institutes. This presentation provides administrators with information on how to support implementing the CCRS in classrooms by sharing what it looks like at Fresno Adult School.  

Facilitators: Donna Burns, Dean of Continuing Education, Mt. San Antonio College, and Bob Harper, Director, Campbell Adult and Community EducationIn this session, a continuation from the April 30, 2014, Webinar, members of the AB 86 State Work Group lead participants in a discussion of progress on implementing AB 86, including regional consortia planning, activities and ideas, and discuss planning the future of adult education in California.  

Facilitators: Donna Burns, Dean of Continuing Education, Mt. San Antonio College, and Bob Harper, Director, Campbell Adult and Community EducationIn this session, two members of the AB86 state Work Group, Donna Burns, Dean of Continuing Education, Mt. San Antonio College, and Bob Harper, Director, Campbell Adult and Community Education, presented an overview of the process, and up-to-date reports of the progress. Areas covered in the presentation included alignment of services, and exploration of current and future opportunities in the delivery of adult education.  

Facilitator: David Williams, Principal, Beaumont Adult SchoolIn this session, David Williams, Principal of Beaumont Adult School, presented an introduction to the planning and implementation process for development of short-term Career Technical Education (CTE) programs, with a focus on maintaining and building existing programs. Areas covered in the presentation included determining specific needs for CTE programs, finding highly qualified instructors, and budgeting/funding of CTE programs.  

Facilitator: Robert Beck, Principal, Pittsburg Adult School, and Joseph Stark, Principal, Burbank Adult SchoolIn this session, the presenters shared how their agencies used Policy to Performance (P2P) funds to develop and implement effective support services and related programs to successfully transition ASE students to college and careers and how they will continue these efforts after the end of the P2P funded initiative. By the end of this session, participants were able to create individualized college and career transition counseling opportunities for ASE students, establish strategic partnerships with local community colleges and WorkSource centers and design customized curricular support and other related transition services to ASE students.