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Staff Spotlight: Three teachers at Castro Valley Adult & Career Education exemplify the school’s dedicated and warmhearted staff

February 7, 2024 Castro Valley Adult & Career Education

Teaching can be a challenge, and never has that been truer than in the last few years, when COVID created an unprecedented upheaval educators scrambled to work around. But adult students face a unique situation even without an international pandemic: holding down a job, caring for a family or navigating a new country, all while trying to attend school. […]

All Means All: How Castro Valley Adult & Career Education strengthens the community as a whole

February 7, 2024 Castro Valley Adult & Career Education

During the economic downturn of 2008, California allowed school districts to close adult schools or reduce their funding. But one school district understood the importance of their adult school and decided not to make any cutbacks. […]

Poway Adult School Student Spotlight: Radhika Devi

January 9, 2024 Poway Adult School

Radhika Devi found a Poway Adult School brochure in a local library and made a life-changing decision for herself—to enroll. […]

Poway Adult School’s ESL Teachers Build Relationships and Pathways to Transform Students’ Lives

January 8, 2024 Poway Adult School

“It is intrinsic motivation and relationship building which enables Poway ESL teachers to create a pathway for student success,” says Jacquie Uriell, Poway’s Lead ESL Teacher. […]

Poway Adult School trains students for high-paying career and provides employers with a qualified workforce

January 8, 2024 Poway Adult School

Poway Adult School, founded in 1965, is a prominent educational institution in north inland San Diego County, annually serving more than 10,000 students and 12,000 enrollees. Poway achieves this by offering a range of academic and personal enrichment programs for adults, including ESL, Career and Technical Education, GED/High School Diploma, and numerous training and personal development courses. […]

Poway Adult School Student Spotlight: Jose Ernesto Quijada Hernandez

January 8, 2024 Poway Adult School

Jose Hernandez had been living in the United States for a few years and was having a hard time learning English on his own. Then he moved to Poway, California. […]

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ESL Classes: How Huntington Beach Adult School helped a multilingual student advance her career

January 3, 2024 Huntington Beach Adult School

Francisca Juarez works as a shift manager at McDonald’s and to address her language barrier she was experiencing in both work life and personal life, she turned to Huntington Beach Adult School. […]

Basic needs, family education and more: Adult students get aid they need thanks to Family Resource Center

October 10, 2023 Huntington Beach Adult School

Without aid or assistance, many adult students, especially those with families, face unique challenges that hinder their educational goals. The Westminster Family Resource Center provides services specifically tailored to these students, including basic needs assistance, case management and citizenship assistance. […]

The right message in the right way: How Huntington Beach Adult School partners with local employers to provide skilled employees

October 10, 2023 Huntington Beach Adult School

Hiring for a place like Hyatt Regency can be difficult. The hotel is a 24/7 operation, so employees need to have flexible availability. Furthermore, the hotel likes to promote from within, so Rivera is always looking for people who she believes will stay the course. It’s a path she herself followed. […]

Building Relationships: How a partnership between Huntington Beach Adult School and Asian American Advancing Justice is guiding immigrants toward citizenship

July 17, 2023 Huntington Beach Adult School

Applying for citizenship in the U.S. can be a complicated process, with confusing paperwork and bureaucratic requirements. But according to Joseph Navales, Supervising Attorney for Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, the biggest roadblock is one often overlooked by citizenship applicants: learning English. […]