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Registration for the CAEP Summit 2023 is Going Strong

CAEP Summit 2023 Call for Proposals is Still Open

Advancing CA Adult Education Model Program Nomination is Still Open 

COABE $1,000 Graduation Fund: Sign Up Today

Registration Open for 2023 High School Equivalency and Proficiency Summer Convenings

Upcoming Lunch with LARAECs

NEW! CAEP State Priority Webinars and Peer Learning Circles

WestEd's Adult Education: Using Data to Explore and Improve Equity and Impact Adult Education

CAEP Consortium Management Webinar Series

CAEP Deliverable Reminders
Deadlines and Deliverables


Registration for the CAEP Summit 2023 is Going Strong

Registration has only been open for one week and slots are filling up! Register now to join other CAEP practitioners at the Hilton Universal City for a two and half day thought-provoking, engaging and fun learning experience. The CAEP Summit 2023 is an opportunity for adult education practitioners to share and discuss innovative and effective promising practices, strategies, and other resources anchored in the CAEP State Priorities: Equity, Leadership, Learner Transition, Marketing, Program Development, Program Evaluation, and Technology and Distance Learning.


The registration cost to attend the CAEP Summit 2023 is $450 until August 25, 2023, then will be $550. Please encourage your colleagues to register and attend. Registration includes access to the following: All meal functions, all general and breakout sessions, exhibitor corner, and networking social. 


Contact CAEP TAP at tap@caladulted.org if you experience any difficulty registering.

Register Today

Room Block at the Hilton Universal City


A 275-room block has been secured with the Hilton Universal City at the rate of $219/per night plus taxes and fees. Use the following link to secure your spot now as the room block will sell out FAST! Booking your room is simple, just select "Book a Room" to receive your group's preferred rate.  

 

If you prefer booking by phone, contact the In-House Reservations Dept. at 818-623-1434 from 7am-7pm, Monday-Sunday. Please have the attendees refer to the group code SCOE when booking. 

 

The contracted cutoff date for the discounted room rate is September 23, 2023Once the cut-off date has expired, any remaining unsold rooms will automatically be released back to the main hotel inventory to be made available for regular guests. 

Book Your Room

Call for Proposals


The CAEP Summit 2023 Call for Proposals is still open for another month! Proposals are steadily coming in, so you don't want to miss out on this opportunity. The CAEP TAP welcomes adult education practitioners to submit a proposal to present a session at the upcoming CAEP Summit 2023. Practitioners are interested in learning about your innovative and effective promising practices, strategies, and other resources anchored in the CAEP State Priorities: Equity, Leadership, Learner Transition, Marketing, Program Development, Program Evaluation, and Technology and Distance Learning. Sessions at the CAEP Summit 2023 can either be 60 or 90 minutes to fit your needs. Additionally, since the Summit is two and half days, the chances of competing sessions taking place at the same time is reduced.

 

Access the complete call for proposal details, including the registration notes, by clicking on the following link. 

 

Proposal submission deadline: June 30, 2023. Applicants will be notified by: August 4, 2023. 

CAEP Summit 2023 Call for Proposal


Advancing CA Adult Education Model Program Nomination is Still Open 

In 2022, the CAEP Office and CAEP TAP recognized Moorpark Adult School for the apps they created to boost student engagement and to address adult education needs using no code and low code, Software As A Services (SAAS) such as Airtable and Twilio. With the number of student registrations impacted by the pandemic, Moorpark Adult School had been seeking to tap into their existing networks to better market their programs. Their data shows that most of their students learn about their program through word of mouth from family and friends. Using low code and no code software, they built an application that is helping them track student referrals from our current students. The way it works is that whenever returning or new students register for classes, they will automatically receive a personalized text message and email the following day. When the student shares the unique URL with their friends and family, the school automatically receives a tally of how many people have completed the online registration using the specific link. Learn more about this model program, including the unique features of the program and their outcomes, by clicking the link here

 

The Advancing CA Adult Education Model Program nomination program is open for 2023! The CAEP Office welcomes nominations of California Adult Education Programs, demonstrating innovative, emerging, or model practices for the Advancing CA Adult Education Award and recognition at California’s CAEP Summit. Model CAEP programs must be aligned to approved CAEP program areas and the adult education state priorities: learner transition, program development, equity, leadership, technology and distance learning, program evaluation, and marketing. The adult education state priorities align with the CCCCO Vision for Success goals and the CDE Superintendent’s Initiatives. 

 

Benefits to participating in the project: 

  1. Showcase a new, emerging, and/or promising program. 
  2. Share practices with other adult education programs and practitioners. 
  3. A video capturing the highlights of the top two scoring programs is created. 
  4. All qualifying program nominations are published on the CAEP website. 
  5. All qualifying program nominations are recognized at the annual CAEP Summit. 
  6. Stories and videos may be highlighted at conferences throughout California and distributed to local, regional, and state officials. 


How to participate in the project: 

Nominations must highlight a California Adult Education Program (CAEP) approved program area and may be submitted by any CAEP funded agency during the open nomination period. This year’s nomination period is March 1, 2023 - June 30, 2023. All nominations will be reviewed for completeness and for how closely they address the rubric criteria stated on the nomination form. Incomplete nominations and nominations that do not address the rubric criteria will not be considered. 

 

To get started, go to the Request Support page on the CAEP website (caladulted.org) and register as a new user or login to the website. Once logged in, click on the box that says Submit Nomination.

Nominate a Model Program


COABE $1,000 Graduation Fund: Sign Up Today 

When learners graduate from adult education programs, they move forward with the skills needed to get a job or enroll in a community college. We also know intuitively that getting a high school diploma, gaining digital literacy skills, and achieving workforce readiness skills is transformational for adult learners- it truly changes their lives! COABE wants to track students' success! 

 

COABE invites graduates to sign up to participate in our Alumni Study. After graduates enroll in the study, they will receive two additional emails from COABE over the course of the year (that's it!). When students sign up to participate, they will be automatically entered into the $1,000 Graduation Fund! The winner will be announced on June 1, 2023. Click below to participate. 

Sign Up

Local program administrators and teachers, sign up for your local program (HERE)  to participate in COABE's Alumni Study to be entered into a raffle for $500. Three winners will be selected and announced on June 1, 2023. Be sure to let all your graduates know about the opportunity to apply for COABE's Graduation Fund!  

  

Visit the Adult Education Alumni Study page to learn more about this initiative. 


Upcoming Lunch with LARAECs

More Amazing Lunch with LARAEC Presentations are on their way!


Need some inspiration to power you through the rest of the year? Then join Justin and Michele from the LARAEC office for a PD pick-me-up! In the next few weeks, come check out the action!



  • Thursday, May 25th at 12:30pm. Check out the Super Six Survival Sites for Teaching and Learning. Fresh off their OTAN TDLS success, join LARAEC's Remote Learning Action Planning Team as they share their "teacher tested and approved" top 6 survival sites to add to your teaching toolkit. The session will feature a deep dive into sites that will take your teaching and student learning to the next level!


Recharge those batteries with these exciting Lunch with LARAEC presentations!

 

Grab your lunch and join us from 12:30 - 1:30pm.  The zoom link can be found at http://laraec.org/lunchwithLARAEC/ 

 

If you’ve missed any of Lunch with LARAEC’s previous presentations, you can find the recordings here: http://laraec.org/lunchwithLARAEC/ 

 

If you would like to submit a proposal for future lineups, please also visit the Lunch with LARAEC page.


NEW! CAEP State Priority Webinars and Peer Learning Circles

Marketing CA Adult Education - Ways to Increase Awareness and Reach Learners


Join us during Part II of this webinar series, attendees will engage in a lightly-facilitated discussion to address current questions, challenges strategies to increase awareness of adult education.


May 31, 2023 form 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.


Program Evaluation at the Consortium Level is a two-part series. Collecting data and reporting outcomes are critical issues consortia are currently addressing. Consortia are interested in learning how to capture quality data and examine data for program improvement. In this session, the Capital Adult Education Regional Consortium’s (CAERC) will share how the consortium is aligning their data reporting to track student transitions through adult education, from ESL and ABE through ASE/CTE, to college or the workforce. During this hands-on session, participants will work in groups to complete a student update record, utilizing resources such as the Data Dictionary and data support tools, and follow that student’s data across the CAEP Summary table. 

 

June 5, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. 

 

In Part II of this webinar series, attendees will engage in a lightly-facilitated discussion to address current questions and strategies to increase program evaluation outcomes. 

 

June 8, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. 

Register


WestEd's Adult Education: Using Data to Explore and Improve Equity and Impact Adult Education

Registration Now Open! 




If you have any questions, contact Blaire Toso – btoso@wested.org and Ayanna Smith – asmith5@wested.org

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CAEP Consortium Management Series 

The CAEP Consortium Management Webinar Series is still running strong! The purpose of the CAEP Consortium Management Webinar Series is to engage CAEP consortia and members in a series of webinars aligned to the CAEP annual deliverables and effective management of the consortium. Each session in the series will provide an in-depth review of the deliverable and how to complete the deliverable in NOVA. Access the links below to learn more about each session and register! 


CAEP Consortium Management 101: August 9, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.


Budget and Work Plan and Quarterly Expenditure Reports for 2023-24: August 18, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. 

Register


CAEP Deliverable Reminders

Quarter 3 Expenditure Report

The Quarter 3 member expenditure report is due in NOVA on June 1, 2023. The consortium will have until June 30, 2023 to certify the report.

CAEP Quarter 4 Student Data

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The Quarter 4 student data is due by July 15, 2023 in TOPSPro for K-12 CAEP adult education providers and WIOA-funded community college noncredit providers.


Annual Plan for 2023-24

The 2023-24 Annual Plan is due in NOVA by August 15, 2023. The Annual Plan is a subset of the CAEP 2022-25 Three-Year Plan.

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  • Jun 1: 21/22 and 22/23 Member Expense Report due in NOVA (Q3)
  • Jun 30: 21/22 and 22/23 Member Expense Report certified by Consortia in NOVA (Q3) *
  • Jul 15: Student Data due in TOPSPro (Q4) FINAL
  • Aug 15: Annual Plan for 2023-24 due in NOVA *
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