It’s here! Brand New Systemwide AB 540 FAQ Released May 9

CAEP Summit 2023 Call for Proposals is Still Open

NEW! CAEP State Priority Webinars and Peer Learning Circles

WestEd's Adult Education Pipeline 6.0 Release

Upcoming Lunch with LARAECs

Advancing CA Adult Education Model Program Nomination Now Open 

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

CAEP Consortium Management Webinar Series

It’s here! Brand New Systemwide AB 540 FAQ Released May 9

The Championing Equity: Systemwide AB 540 FAQ aims to increase the ability of AB 540-eligible students to receive the same information at every public college and university in California. This first-of-its-kind tool will allow more effective implementation of this important tuition equity policy. 

Together, we can increase alignment in the implementation of AB 540 and make in-state tuition and state-based financial aid more accessible for the undocumented community and beyond. 

PLEASE share this invitation with key personnel and colleagues from your campus—especially those who work directly with undocumented students!

CAEP Summit 2023 Call for Proposals Now Open

The CAEP Summit 2023 Call for Proposals is still open! Proposals have started to come 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, to be held in-person for the first time since 2019, at the Hilton Universal City, October 24-26, 2023.

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. 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. 

Submit a proposal today! 

NEW! CAEP State Priority Webinars and Peer Learning Circles

Learner Transition in CA – A Deeper Dive is a two-part series. In Part I of this webinar series, the 2021 Supporting Transition from Adult Education to Postsecondary Education and Employment research brief, authored by High Road Alliance, was re-introduced and attendees heard from a panel of practitioners from across the state about the ways in which they are innovating and collaborating to support learners in achieving their transition goals. In Part II of this webinar series, attendees will engage in a lightly-facilitated discussion to address current questions and strategies to increase learner transition. 

May 17, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. 

Marketing CA Adult Education - Ways to Increase Awareness and Reach Learners is a two-part series. Join us during Part I of the Marketing webinar series to hear from a panel of adult education consortium leads who are actively working with their members to raise awareness of adult education.

May 23, 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, challenges strategies to increase awareness of adult education.

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

WestEd's Adult Education Pipeline 6.0 Release

The Adult Education Pipeline is a comprehensive data dashboard that provides student demographics, enrollment, outcomes, services received, and employment using adult education data and accountability metrics. With the April 2023 release, the Adult Education Pipeline has been updated with 2021-22 data from the Chancellor’s Office Management Information System (COMIS) and from an export of the TOPSpro Enterprise (TE) data provided by CASAS. The Adult Education Pipeline now includes data from 2016-17 through 2021-22. Join WestEd for the AEP 6.0 Release Webinar to learn about key updates to the AEP Dashboard.

Date and Time: May 18, 2023 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Register to attend the scheduled webinar using the link below.

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 11^th at 12:30pm. She's baaack!! Yes, presenter extraordinaire Samantha Ross is back with another episode of her popular series, Stuff I Wish I Knew. In this installment, Samantha will offer tips, tidbits and timesavers featuring Canva. Want to learn how to make and create off-the-hook flyers? Then this episode is for you!
• Thursday, May 18^th at 12:30pm. Lunch with LARAEC will host the Counseling and Transitions Action Planning Team. Join them for Onboarding and Beyond as they take a deep dive into best practices for onboarding students before they enter the classroom and beyond. Whether you are a counselor, in-person instructor, or teach strictly online, they'll explore best practices for supporting students from their first encounter with a counselor to meeting their instructor and beyond!
• Thursday, May 25^th 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.

Advancing CA Adult Education Model Program Nomination Now 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.

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

Registration Now Open! 



• South/Central Coast Regional Training (Webinar) – Friday, May 26th
• San Diego/Imperial Regional Training (Webinar) – Tuesday, June 6th

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

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. 

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

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.

• 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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