Part 2: ACCEL Team Members

This is Part 2 in a series explaining the new Regional Consortia system for Adult Education.

Click here to read Part 1.

 

Adult Education in California has a new system.  The new system will begin in the summer of 2015.

 

In the new system, schools will work in teams to deliver Adult Education in 70 regions around the state.

 

Each team is called a Regional Consortium.


The ACCEL Regional Consortium
 

San Mateo County

Our Regional Consortium is called ACCEL. 

 

Our region is the county of San Mateo.

 

Our team has K12 Adult School members and Community College members.

 

The members of the ACCEL Regional Consortia team are

 

* San Mateo Adult School 

* Jefferson Adult School

* Sequoia Adult School

* South San Francisco Adult School

* Cabrillo Unified School District

* College of San Mateo

* Canada College

* Skyline College

 

Our team has a fiscal agent - a banker.  We are the banker.

 

Our team also has partners:

 

Puente de la Costa Sur, Nuestra Casa, Job Train, Samaritan House, North Fair Oaks Community Center, the San Mateo County Social Service Agency, the San Mateo County Office of Education, Goodwill, Community Gatepath, Apprenticeship Programs, San Mateo Central Labor Council, the WIB One-Stop Centers, and the Silicon Valley Community Foundation.

 

Our ACCEL team has a Big job to do.

 

We must

 

* Find out what each team member does now

* Find out what San Mateo County needs

* Decide the best way to help San Mateo County with Adult Education

* Decide what each team member will do in the future

* Create smooth connections between every team member

* Create smooth connections from the schools to jobs and colleges

* Follow new rules -- some of the rules for Adult Education have changed

Larry Teshara - "Mr. T"
ACCEL Co-Director
SMAS Director

* and do all this before May of 2015!

 

Our ACCEL team has two directors:

 

Co-Director Dr. Gregory Anderson from Canada College

Co-Director Larry Teshara - "Mr. T" - from San Mateo Adult School

 

Tim Doyle
ACCEL Project Manager
SMAS Asst Director

 

Our ACCEL team has a project manager:  Tim Doyle from San Mateo Adult School

 

 

 

 

 

 

Our ACCEL team has a Steering Committee. 

The Steering Committee are the people driving the car.   They must look ahead.  They must think about where we are going and how we must get there.
 

 

The ACCEL Steering Committee has members from every school on the team. 

 

Patricia Brown
ACCEL Steering Committee Member
SMAS ESL Teacher
Former President of CFT Local 4681

There are two people from our school on the Steering Committee:  Mr. T and Teacher Patricia.

 

There is a mix of administrators and teachers on the Steering Committee.

 

There are two teachers from K12 Adult Schools: 

 

ESL Teacher Patricia Brown from our school.

Adult Secondary Education Teacher Majken Talbot from Jefferson Adult School.

 

 

Our ACCEL team is divided into 4 parts:

 

* North - Jefferson Adult School, South San Francisco Adult School and Skyline

* South - Sequoia Adult School and Canada College

* Mid - San Mateo Adult School and College of San Mateo

* Coast - Cabrillo Unified, La Honda, and Canada College

 

Each part - North, South, Mid, Coast - has a CATS team - a Collaborative Action Team.

 

Collaborative = work together with good relationship

 

The CATS teams must think about their part of the county and what it needs.  They must review information and find ways to work together to deliver Adult Education the best way possible.


The Mid CATS Group

San Mateo Adult School is in the Mid CATS group.  Here is a photo of our CATS team:

 

Do you see some people you recognize from our school?
Mr. T, Ron Beal, Tim, Patricia, Patty, and Lisa!

 

The Mid CATS team has 2 Co-Facilitators:

 

                    Facilitate = make things happen in an easy way

 

Co-Facilitator Marissa Pienaar, BSI Coordinator and Reading Professor CSM
Co-Facilitator Lisa Dolehide, ESL Instructor, San Mateo Adult School

The other members of our Mid CATS team are:

1. Amy Sobel, ESL Professor, CSM
2. Krystal Romero, Director of Student Support Services, CSM
3. Theresa Martin, Professional Development Coordinator and Biology Professor, CSM
4. Ron Beall, Counselor ABE/GED/ASE, San Mateo Adult
5. Patty Villar, ESL Registrar/Student Support Services, San Mateo Adult
6. Susan Williams, Assistant Director, San Mateo Adult

Patty Villar
ACCEL Mid CATS Team Member
San Mateo Adult School ESL Registrar
and Student Support Services

Everyone on all the teams must go to many meetings.

Here is the calendar for ACCEL meetings.

They must also get information from the community, teachers, and students. 

It is a big and very important job.

This new system will deliver Adult Education to San Mateo County for many, many years.

We need to be sure the new system is good. We need to think carefully.  We need to make a big effort.  We need to do our best. We need to be smart, patient, respectful, and cooperative.  We need to communicate. We need to think and speak clearly.  We need to listen to what others say and then think about it.

And then we need to bring it all together to create a great new kind of Adult Education system for San Mateo County.

Thank you, ACCELL Team Leaders, for doing this big job!

 

ACCEL Team Leaders Patricia and Lisa