Meet with Golden Valley Adult School, Madera County Workforce, Madera Community College Center, and State Center Adult Education Consortium representatives to discuss options and available resources for skill building and job training opportunities. 

Wednesday, May 9, 2018

5:00 pm - 7:00 pm

Golden Valley Educational Options

12220 Road 36, Madera, CA 93636

Education and Career Night Flyer

For more information, please contact

Avo Atoian at 559-645-3580.

Babysitting and refreshments will be provided.

Educational Options consists of six separate schools, including Golden Valley Adult School, which offers independent study programs in High School Diploma, ESL, Citizenship, and Technology for students 18 years and older. 

Click here to read the full article on Educational Options at Golden Valley USD.

The California Workforce Association is hosting a series of regional meetings focused on serving the re-entry population and connecting them to regional career pathways.

The meetings will bring key workforce and corrections partners together to catalog their successful strategies for serving re-entry populations and to identify services and partnerships that are needed to connect proven supply-side strategies for the re-entry population with demand-side regional workforce successes.

The Central Valley North meeting will be held on Thursday, May 31, 2018 in Modesto, CA. There is no fee to attend.

  Central Valley North registration

The Madera County Workforce Investment Corporation, in collaboration with the Fresno Regional Workforce Development Board, and the State Center Adult Education Consortium, helps individuals who face substantial cultural and language barriers to employment become equipped for careers, empowered with character, and prepared to participate in the global economy.

Assistance is available with:

• Adult Basic Education
• English as a Second Language (ESL)
• High School Diploma, GED, or HiSET exam
• Transition to college of higher education
• U.S. Citizenship class
• Career Technical Education
• Transitional Jobs Training
• On the Job Training
• Legal and Immigration Resources
• and much more...

On February 9, President Trump signed a Continuing Resolution that includes significant increases in Non-defense

Discretionary spending and offers the opport unity to increase funding for Adult Education, among other programs. 

Now, each Appropriations Committee must decide how to allocate its new funds. This is a unique opportunity to increase funding for Adult Education by $100 million (a roughly 17 percent increase).

Please click here to write or call your member of Congress in support of $100 million more for Adult Education.

USA Learns is a free website created by the Sacramento County Office of Education to help adults learn English and prepare for U.S. Citizenship. 

The website teaches English by providing engaging videos and educational activities. Learners have the opportunity to learn English independently or with the support of their teacher. 

USA Learns website

USA Learns Flyer

Teachers may access the USA Learn for Teachers website that enables adult educators to easily create online courses and monitor their students' progress as they complete the activities and lessons.

USA Learns Teachers' website

The Coalition on Adult Basic Education is offering free professional development webinars in April. 

May 7, 2018

Integrating Employment and Training Skills into the HSE Classroom...and Still Teach

May 30, 2018

High School Equivalency Testing: Using Success Stories to Support Your Outreach Efforts

COABE Professional Development Registration

The AEBG Office and the AEBG Technical Assistance Project (TAP) are hosting a series of webinars and events to provide professional development, technical assistance and important AEBG updates and information.  Check the AEBG Webinar page for a complete schedule.

• Wednesdays are designated for professional development.

• Fridays are designated for policy/state updates.

CALPRO is offering numerous Professional Learning Opportunities for May and June 2018.

CALPRO Flyer

 

OTAN (Outreach and Technical Assistance Network for Adult Educators) offers both online and face-to-face workshops for adult educators and staff throughout California. Funded through the California Department of Education, OTAN's staff development classes, online workshops and course materials are provided at no cost to the school or individual.

Collaborate with others from around the state, in Fresno on May 3-5, 2018 at the DoubleTree by Hilton Fresno Convention Center.

Learn about new best practices and receive targeted training from leaders in the adult education field.  There will be 25 strands offered - comprised of more that 75 breakout sessions - providing valuable, state-of-the-art training that you will be able to bring back to your adult ed program.

Join more that 1,000 conferees, and enjoy numerous networking opportunities with your peers in adult education and around the state.

Conference Sessions

Conference Registration

Hotel Reservations

Save the date for the CCAE Central Section Awards Banquet to be held at the Visalia Country Club.

The CASAS National Summer Institute 2018 will be held June 19-21 in San Diego, CA.

Don't miss this once-a-year exceptional professional development opportunity.  Increase your knowledge and skills in using assessment results to inform instruction and to improve programs.  Learn more about data-driven decision-making.  The Institute is appropriate for:

• Education providers (administrators, coordinators, instructors, and support staff)
• Workforce development professionals
• Business and industry representatives
• State-level personnel (adult education directors and other state-level professionals)
• Anyone interested in learning more about the CASAS system

Conference Registration

The Fresno County Library offers a wide variety of online services. General information that can be found at http://www.fresnolibrary.org/reference.html. 

Another useful tool from the Fresno County Library is the LearningExpress Library, featuring tutorials, videos and practice tests geared toward helping learners achieve their goals.  Depending on their needs, customers can explore different areas such as the Adult Learning Center, the Career Center, and the High School Equivalency Center, as well as others. 

State Center Adult Education Consortium and Central/Mother Lode Regional Consortium partnered to offer a half-day summit designed to provide an opportunity to Learn , Share and Network .

Please click below for the Resource Summit Brochure.

CCAE is compiling a directory of the most updated adult education providers which will include primary contacts, program areas in which they deliver instruction, and total number of students served.  The goal is to strengthen local sharing of best practices by creating a directory of programs that is easy to use. 

CCAE Regional Consortium Directory Form

Contact [email protected] for assistance.

You can now access services, by program area, for each consortium and each member within a consortium through the AEBG Services Directory, which is accessible below and via the AEBG homepage.  This is a great collaboration tool in that it allows you to easily see which other consortia or members offer similar services and can also be shared with prospective students who want to know more about programs offered within their community.

View AEBG Services Directory

The Preliminary Report on the Implementation and Effectiveness of the Adult Education Block Grant Program is now available on the AEBG website.

To ensure that AEBG funding accelerates adults into employment, living wages, and full engagement in society, AEBG state legislation requires the the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges and the State Superintendent of Public Instruction submit reports to the Legislature.  This is the preliminary report, with the final report due March 1, 2018, and it addresses the key requirements of the legislation, the evolution of California's adult education system, and recommendations.

Click on the photo above to view the report.

The AEBG Office has released a new eMagazine.  The eMagazine tells the story of why adult education is important to California's economy and provides an overview of AEBG activities, data and innovations.

This current issue also includes a video highlighting the Fresno region's efforts to connect adult students.

Click on the photo above to view the eMagazine.