CAEP TAP Newsletter Contribution | | CAEP Deliverable Reminders & Deadlines and Deliverables | | Data Vista Open Office Hours | | Ven al Cafe con Pan Watch Party series | | Application for the CALPRO (IET) Spring 2025 Implementation Clinic | | Upcoming Professional Learning Events | | CAEP Consortium Director's Corner | | |
We look forward to what 2025 brings and how we can continue to provide support. If you need assistance, contact CAEP TAP at tap@caladulted.org or (888) 827-2324.
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The CAEP Newsletter will now be released twice a month, on the first and third Wednesdays of the month.
If you would like to submit an item for consideration, please submit it no later than the Friday before the week of publication.
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CAEP Quarter 2 Student Data
The Quarter 2 student data is due by January 31, 2025 in TOPSPro for K-12 CAEP adult education providers and WIOA-funded community college noncredit providers. Additionally, the employment and earnings follow-up survey is due on the same day, January 31, 2025.
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CAEP Quarter 2 Expense Report
The Quarter 2 Member Expense Report is due March 1, 2025, and certified by the consortium no later than March 31, 2025.
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Jan 31: Student Data due in TOPSPro (Q2)
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Jan 31: Employment and Earning Follow-up Survey
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Mar 1: 22/23 and 23/24 and 24/25 Member expense report is due in NOVA. (Q2)*
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Mar 31: 22/23 and 23/24 and 24/25 Member Expense Report certified by Consortia in NOVA (Q2) *
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| SCOE TAP and NOCE TAP are here to provide support to the field. To be able to provide the field with the most timely responses, please submit your request via the TAP Support Box. | | Data Vista Open Office Hours | | |
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Need support navigating DataVista?
Join WestEd's upcoming office hours January 23rd, 2025 from 12:00 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. PST for an open, interactive session—bring your questions!
Whether you’re having trouble finding specific data, need clarification on data interpretations, or want tips on using various features, the WestEd team will be ready to help! This session is a great opportunity to enhance your DataVista experience with direct guidance from our team. We look forward to connecting with you!
| | Ven al Cafe con Pan Watch Party series | | |
SVAC would like to extend this invitation to all students, administrative personnel, and community members to our series on topics selected by our SVAEC student council. Adult schools are encouraged to host Watch Parties and/or share the flyer with students, teachers, and the general public. The SVAEC Student Council voiced that to increase equity and access, online presentations were recommended for all students. Due to this need, Ven Al Cafe Con Pan was created. Topics include:
1) Know your Rights with Immigration Attorney Armida Mendoza
2) Validating Foreign Degrees
3) Opening your business with/without a SSN
4) Citizenship Mock Interview with USCIS, UFW Foundation, and Immigration Attorney Armida Mendoza
| | Apply for the CALPRO Integrated Education and Training (IET) Spring 2025 Implementation Clinic | | |
CALPRO Online Integrated Education and Training (IET) Implementation Clinic (Spring 2025)
The California Adult Literacy Professional Development Project (CALPRO) and the California Department of Education are pleased to offer a unique professional learning opportunity! Join other agency teams of ESL instructors, CTE instructors, and program administrators for an Integrated Education and Training (IET) Implementation Clinic.
FORMAT
There are four principal features of this unique online professional learning opportunity, which is open to up to 8 agency teams (each team is composed of 3 staff members).
1) Two day-long virtual training sessions. Participants will have the opportunity to engage in interactive planning and curriculum development activities as well as to share best practices.
2) Live, interactive discussion through three 75 to 90-minute online webinars with engaging guest speakers, seasoned facilitators, peer mentors, and colleagues from around the state (see below for complete details). In each meeting we will:
• Highlight the relevancy and value of the featured topic for the work that we do
• Explore best and promising practices in the featured topic
• Learn from subject matter experts and peer mentors on effective related strategies
• Share successes and common challenges with fellow teachers and program administrators
• Get help on solving issues we face
Topics will be tailored to the needs of the participating practitioners and identified through the application process and may include:
• Starting Strong: Developing the Team Teaching Partnership
• Co-Teaching & Alternating Teaching: Which Model, Why, And How?
• Developing a Single Set of Learning Objectives & Integrating Lesson Plans
• Building an Integrated Syllabus
• Promising Intake & Onboarding Strategies for lET
• Action Planning: Process considerations, potential challenges, and solutions to address challenges.
• IET and Distance Learning: Considerations & Strategies
3) Ongoing online discussions, sharing, and resource creation through a designated private group within CALPRO’s online Community of Practice.
4) Completion of a capstone project and presentation of the project at the second day-long session.
5) Coaching now included! IET clinic participating teams will now have the support of an IET implementation coach to support you for nine months upon completion of the IET clinic.
Click the link below to access full details related to the IET Implementation Clinic.
| | Upcoming CAEP Professional Learning Events | | |
CAEP Three-Year Plan Friday Focus on Section Five
January 10th, 2025 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Register today!
Bridging the Gaps: Using Data and Personas for Three-Year Planning (In-person) Fremont
January 22, 2025 9:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Register today!
Pre-Apprenticeships 101: Key Terms, Definitions, and Program Elements for Adult Education
February 4, 2025 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Register today!
Building Pre-Apprenticeship Success: Best Practices and Insights from the Field
February 6, 2025 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Register today!
Designing Pre-Apprenticeships: Operational Models and Program Delivery Considerations
February 11, 2025 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Register today!
CAEP Accountability Update and Data Dive (In-Person)
Presented by: Jay Write of CASAS
- January 21st, 2025 11:00 AM - 03:00 PM (San Jose) Independence Adult Center - Register today!
- January 22nd, 2025 1:00 PM to 04:00 PM (Salinas) Hartnell College - Register today!
- January 23, 2025 11:00 AM - 03:00 PM (San Mateo) San Mateo Adult School Register today!
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Tuesday, January 14, 2025 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. ET
CareerOneStop for New Americans
This is a comprehensive career, education, and job search website. The website offers tools, resources, and information to help users explore careers, make education and training decisions, search for jobs locally or nationally, and find local assistance, including their closest American Job Center. CareerOneStop is widely used by job seekers, students, businesses, and workforce professionals.
This webinar focuses on the CareerOneStop resources, and its new section for New Americans, that are most helpful for the unique needs of immigrants, refugees, and other new Americans. Many have language or other barriers to employment. Some have never participated in a formal workforce. Others have advanced professional credentials obtained outside the United States.
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Tips and Tricks to Boost Student Retention, Persistence, and Paired Scores
Thursday, January 16th 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
What strategies can we use in the classroom, counseling office, and by staff to encourage students to persist? How can we help students see the CASAS assessment as an ally? This presentation will address those questions as well as discuss the use of CASAS and data to make data-driven decisions and lesson plans. Join the amazing team from Salinas Adult School as we dive into engagement and persistence!
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An Insider's Guide to Using AI to develop ESL Lessons and Materials
Thursday, January 23rd 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Join us for an insider's guide to the key AI tools that will give you the ability to create and adapt lesson materials for ESL classes. This session will show you how to create materials and activities for your classroom which will enhance lessons and promote student learning and engagement. Join Jacob Baldwin of Burbank Adult School as he connects us to essential AI teacher tools.
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Connecting Textbook Lessons and Games to the English Language Proficiency Standards
Thursday, January 30th 12:30 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Want to add some additional games, mixers, and other communicative activities to your teaching palette? Join the amazing Donna Price as she shares activities that reinforce the ELPS for adult education. She will share five standards and demonstrate game-like activities that address the standard. Adaptable to any level, these activities reinforce listening, speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary, and grammar to prepare students for standardized tests that are based on the ELPS.
| | Technology and Digital Learning Symposium - Call for Proposals and Registration is Now Open! | | |
Plans are underway for OTAN's Technology and Digital Learning Symposium 2025, scheduled for Friday, March 7 and Saturday, March 8. TDLS will be a hybrid event offering in-person and virtual sessions. The in-person event will be hosted by our friends at Long Beach School for Adults and online.
The Call for Proposals is open! You are invited to present and share your promising practices, strategies, lesson plans, and other resources related to technology integration and digital learning in your programs with your adult education colleagues. The Call for Proposals closes on Monday, December 2.
OTAN is looking for presentations that highlight technology, how it enhances the learner experience, extends the classroom to learners, and how technology integration helps adult education programs be more effective and efficient. If you would like more ideas on possible presentation topics, view last year's sessions on the TDLS Video Presentations page on the OTAN website.
Registration is also open! Register for TDLS 2025 here!
Submit your proposal for TDLS 2025 here!
OTAN looks forward to seeing you either in-person or virtually at the Technology and Digital Learning Symposium March 7 and 8, 2025! If you have any questions, contact support@otan.us. You can also visit the TDLS page on the OTAN website for more information: tdls.otan.us.
| | 2025 CAEAA 28th State Conference | | |
The 28th Annual California Adult Education Administrators' Association State Conference will take place February 6-7, 2025, at the Sutter Club in Sacramento. Hear directly from key leaders in adult education, network with other administrators, solve problems together, collaborate on funding efforts, improve learner outcomes, and learn from each other. The conference is intended for anyone interested in adult education, especially adult education administrators, program directors, consortium directors, assistant administrators, principals, assistant principals, and new adult education administrators.
Conference registration and hotel registration are now open. The CAEAA State Conference is the premier executive-level adult education conference in California. Register today!
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Consortium Directors' Peer Learning Circle (PLC)
The Consortium Directors' Peer Learning Circles serve as a specialized forum for Consortium Leads, Co-Leads, Managers, and Directors. This platform offers a unique space to engage in discussions on challenges, queries, and distinctive scenarios frequently experienced by Consortium Leads, who often navigate the complexities of both the Community College noncredit system and the K12 system. It provides an invaluable opportunity for leads from across California to exchange ideas, find thought partners, and disseminate strategies and best practices, thereby fostering excellence throughout the state.
Please use this form to express areas of interest for future PLC's.
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Directors' Corner | Discussion
The Directors' Corner serves as an online platform designed to promote the exchange of ideas and facilitate access to colleagues throughout the state. Additionally, the Canvas Course is a repository of consolidated resources for Consortium Leads/Directors. This platform aims to foster a robust networking environment, allowing for the seamless sharing of queries, resources, and insights on various scenarios among directors throughout the State.
Consortium Leads will be granted access. If you do not have access, please email tap@caladulted.org
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