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This year, San Mateo Adult School did something new.  We had an Open House.  We invited people to visit our school.   Students brought their friends and family. They visited classrooms. Teacher Shirley shared tips about math with visitors They made art with Teacher Melvin and Former Evening Student Council President Maricruz.  Maricruz had games and arts and crafts projects for kids of all ages. Melvin explains how to make origami. They toured the School Garden.  Teacher Bruce shows visitors our beautiful and bountiful School Garden. They stopped by the GED and High School Diploma classrooms. Teacher Ellen's students painted these wonderful posters.  They checked out the Steps to Success that Teacher Jessica's class made. They had their photo taken in front the Road to Success poster.  This wonderful poster was painted by Evening Student Council President Adriana Gonzalez.  Morning Student Council Secretary Jin (on the right) poses with friends on the ...

Modern Office Technology is a wonderful class. You can learn Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Access, Outlook, and QuickBooks Pro. You do not need keyboarding skills, computer skills, a high school diploma, a GED, or advanced ESL to take the class. If you have Intermediate level ESL skills, you can take the class. Starting in Summer Semester, Monday, April 25, you can get college credit for this class!   If you follow a special program and complete the program in 8 weeks, you can get college credit from the College of San Mateo for parts one and two of Word and parts one and two of Excel. For each part you complete, you can get 1.5 units of college credit.  If you want to get college credit for each part, here's how it works: 1.  Enroll in the class. 2.  Follow the class syllabus (the step by step guidelines) and complete all the work in 8 weeks 3.  Teacher Diane will give you a grade. 4.  San Mateo Adult School petitions College of San Mate...

This is how we did it! Monday:   New Banner for Poplar Avenue Morning ESL Students created this beautiful new banner. Tuesday:   CCAE Leg Day.  Student Council Leaders went to Sacramento to talk with the Legislature.  Read Denise's story about the day here . Vice President Cristina Munoz, Secretary Jin Lim, and President Denise Carrasco in the State Capitol Tuesday Evening:   Spelling Bee.  Evening students competed in a Spelling Bee. Wednesday:   Virginia Reel Cristina and Denise and other students dancing the Virginia Reel Thursday :  New!   Open House !   We had our first ever Open House so students could show off their school to their friends and family.  Students visited classrooms, toured the School Garden, had fun making art, and then went over to the SMART Center for snacks, a photo booth, and the Award Ceremony.  Student Council Leaders Cristina, Denise, Jin in front of the wonderful photo booth painted  by Evening ...

We started off by making a wonderful new banner for the fence on Poplar Ave. The Student Council paid for the materials - the canvas and the paint. Morning ESL classes were assigned 2 letters.  Each class painted the letters in their own style.   Painting "UL"  Teacher Lisa and Teacher David with students  Step by step...  Putting it all together... What does it spell?!

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 o...

Student Leaders Vice President Cristina Munoz, Secretary Jin Lim, President Denise Carrasco  On April 5th, San Mateo Adult School Student Leaders Denise Carrasco, Cristina Munoz, and Jin Lim went to Sacramento for CCAE Leg Day.  They were accompanied by Assistant Director Eric Saavedra and Teacher Cynthia Eagleton.  Denise, Cristina, Jin and Teacher Cynthia inside the Capitol The purpose of CCAE Leg Day is to talk to Legislators about Adult Education.  CCAE is the California Council for Adult Education.  Spring is the time when Legislators think about the budget for the next fiscal year.  This is the time to talk to them about funding for Adult Education. Denise Carrasco, Morning Student Council President, gives us this report about the day: I would like to thank all the students who gave us the opportunity to be their voice as stundent council members; it has been a great experience to us. Last Tuesday, we went to Sacramento to talk with assembly members about t...

The winner of the 2016 Adult Education Week Essay Contest in the Advanced Category for Day ESL students was Ayako Ueda.  With permission, here is her essay: My Journey as an Adult Education Student             A school is a place where children study to prepare for their future. Their outcomes are scored by grades, and their progress is assessed by the extent they improved during the school year. However, this conventional evaluation system is not applicable to adult education even though it is called adult “school”. Adult education plays an important role in community integration, which is especially important in a region with an influx of new immigrants, like California. It contributes to society by giving new comers a sense of community, confidence, and courage to take the first step towards their dreams.             First of all, without exaggeration, my journey ...

Many students participated in the 2016 Adult Education Week Contest.  The theme was "Steps on the Journey." Here, with the permission of the author, is one of the essays: My Adult Education Adventure and Steps on the Journey I had studied English in China for many years, but I did not use it in my life at all after graduating from college, so it was easy to forget almost everything about English. After I met my American husband, I started to study English seriously.   We wrote emails to each other in English as practice every day, but he rarely corrected me, and I could not speak it fluently.   As a result, I have never studied English systematically after I graduated a long time ago. Adult education was my first choice as a step for learning English and communicating in English more effectively since I moved to the United States.   It is helpful to adults who have families to take care of, have a job to do, and need a flexible schedule.   It is less pressure fo...