SMAS All School Meeting April 13, 2016

On April 13, 2016, San Mateo Adult School had an All School Meeting so we could learn more about our Regional Consortium, ACCEL.   We came together to talk and think about the future of our school and all Adult Education.  There are many new rules for Adult Education in California that we must understand and follow.

Assistant Director Tim made a presentation to help us understand what is going on in our Regional Consortium, ACCEL, and for Regional Consortia all across California.

Teacher Lisa made a presentation to help us understand how our school will be a bridge to College, Career and Community.

Here are the slides from each presentation with some information below each slide.  If you have questions about the information, you can ask your teacher, Teacher Patricia, Teacher Lisa, or Teacher Cynthia.

Thank you to Tim and Lisa for making these presentations so we can understand things better.

Tim's presentation about ACCEL:

This is the name of our consortium.  It has 5 Adult Schools and 3 Community Colleges:
 San Mateo Adult School, Jefferson Adult School,
Sequoia Adult School, South San Francisco Adult School,
and the new La Costa Adult School on the Western Coast in Half Moon Bay,
and College of San Mateo, Skyline Community College, and Canada Community College.

There are 70 Regional Consortia in California.
There are 72 Community College Districts.  Each district has a Regional Consortium. 
Two districts decided to combine with others.

Implementation means put a plan into action, make it real.
This is an implementation year.
This is the list of things we need to make happen.

CCAE is the California Council of Adult Education.
Dawn Koepke is the Legislative Analyst for CCAE.
She gives us advice about government and money.
This is her advice.

The Legislative Analyst Office is part of the California State Government.
The LAO helps the Governor and the Legislature understand things
so they can make good money decisions.
This is information from the LAO.

Metrics are tools to measure things.  We measure things with metrics.
In the future, the success of our school and Adult Education
will be measured with these metrics.

The CCAE State Convention is April 21-23.
San Mateo Adult School will help at the State Convention.

These are the things ahead for our school.
We need to think about these things.
We need to make these things happen.




Here's is Lisa's presentation about the
Pathway Bridge Model: