New Member Benefits and Resources
Download the CCAE App
Get all the latest updates and connect with colleagues across the state on CCAE's all new App. Download the FREE CCAE App HERE and contact marketing@ccaestate.org with any questions.
Enjoy Exclusive Savings
Exclusive hotel savings for CCAE members. Save up to 55% over online travel agencies and enjoy the convenience of a 24/7 concierge. A great option for personal vacations, quick weekend getaways, or business related travel! Get more details HERE.

Susanna Contreras Smith, Superintendent of Schools for Montebello USD
AEBG Resources
CCAE has established a webpage to  support the efforts of AEBG in all 71 consortia. This effort is generously sponsored by TASC/TABE.



Access the following information on our new webpage HERE:
  • Various regional meetings
  • Notes and information from CCAE/CAEAA sponsored regional meetings
  • Best practices from the field:
    • Data collection, reporting, and analysis
    • Developing new programs
    • Student support services

Adult Education: A Crucial Foundation for Middle Skills
More than 24 million US workers lack key foundational skills in reading, math, or spoken English, and would benefit from adult education to help them build the skills needed to pursue occupational training and compete for these jobs. 

Adult education models such as Integrated Education and Training (IET) have a proven track record in helping adult learners acquire key skills, earn secondary and postsecondary credentials, and obtain middle-skill employment.

The National Skills Coalition has developed a fact sheet that highlights four federal policies that can support the implementation of adult education program models such as IET, and provides examples of states that are capitalizing on these policies to do just that. Download the fact sheet (  HERE).


Membership Renewal is Underway
Has your personal membership lapsed?
CCAE continues to take the lead in advocacy, professional development, and communication. Stay engaged and help make a difference! Renew today HERE.
NEW Platinum Institutional Membership
When you renew your institution's membership, two staff receive free membership. In addition, you can also join as a platinum member, which enables you to designate 15 adult students for membership! Those 15 students will then be able to apply for grants and scholarships and much more! Learn more  HERE.
Student Spotlight
My Story, by Imelda Donato
Hello, my name is Imelda Donato. I am one of five children in my family. I am the first to have graduated and have gone to college. I am an Adult Education Counselor at Stockton School for Adults. So, how did I get here? I would like to share my story with you. But please bear with me as my journey like those of many others had road blocks and speed bumps that slowed me down. It was not a straight path to success. I did not go straight to college after knowing most of my childhood what wanted to be "when I grow up." In fact I did not know I could go to college. I was unaware of my potential.

My journey to becoming a counselor began as a student at Stockton School for Adults, but I didn't decide that I wanted to be a student there, I ended up at School for Adults in 1996 after my high school counselor notified me that I was "not going to graduate" and since I was 18 years old I was referred to School for Adults. I think that I internalized that to mean that I was not smart simply because I was not fluent in the language and not because I did not meet the requirements for graduation.
The combination of missing school due to constant moving to follow the crop seasons and the fact that I thought I was not smart because I had to repeat a grade since I did not speak English fluently had finally caught up with me...I ran out of time. I have vague memories of sitting in the back of the class at a round table with a small group and looking at very colorful pictures while being asked to identify them, I was an English learner.  Once I was in high school I had a better grasp of the English language, but by then it was late. I enrolled at Stockton School for Adults (SFA) without expectations, either from myself or the staff. My future was not clear. I just knew that in order to avoid farm work which my mother had exposed us to every summer since we were young, I had to be at school. I would attend all school sessions possible and although I had begun with no expectations that would soon change. Read more HERE.

Help Us Provide Scholarships for Adult Students
Help an Adult Student
When you support Adult Ed, you help adults reach their goals and achieve their potential. Adult education provides a pathway out of poverty into the middle class; it gives students a hand up, not a hand out. We need your help in supporting students in the next step of their journey.

Please consider sponsoring a student today by donating to the CCAE Scholarship Fund! 100% of your donation will go to help students transition to college and Career Technical Education. Donate HERE.

Professional Development
CCAE State Conference
Make plans to join us for the 2017 CCAE State Conference, in Long Beach, California, at the Renaissance Long Beach Hotel, on May 4-6, 2017. The theme of this year's conference is The Renaissance of Adult Education. We expect over 1,000 administrators, educators, students, and other professionals from across the state to come together to share, learn, and collaborate.  DETAILS

CALPRO Opportunities

Learn about all of the professional development opportunities for October and November, offered by CALPRO,  HERE.

LINCS ESL Pro Project
Through the LINCS ESL Pro project, funded by OCTAE, three suites of resources have been developed for adult educators HERE:
1.
Meeting the Language Needs of Today's Adult English Language Learner
2. Integrating Digital Literacy into English Language Instruction
3. Preparing English Learners for Work and Career Pathways

You can also access open educational resources (OER) that are appropriate for use in the adult ESL classroom HERE.
 

National Spotlight
CCAE Joins COABE's National Capitol Hill Day

Over fifty state leaders from around the country joined COABE in Washington DC on September 28, 2016 to advocate for more funding for adult education. Vittoria Abbate (pictured on right) represented CCAE well. Read more HERE.

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