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Cristina Ulrich and Denise Carrasco are students at San Mateo Adult School .  They are currently in the GED and High School Diploma program, respectively, and formerly in the ESL program.  They both served as Student Leaders on the SMAS Student Council.  Cristina was Vice President of the Morning Student Council and Denise was President of the same.  They are advocates for Adult Education and Adult Schools and have attended and presented at numerous conferences, including regional and state CCAE conferences and the national AAACE conference.  Recently, they attended the Network for Public Education 2017 Conference in Oakland.  Here is their report: Cristina, Denise, Cynthia at NPE 2017 We are Cristina Ulrich and Denise Carrasco, former ESL students at San Mateo Adult School. For a long time we have been interested in adult education and student leadership, which are two of the reasons that have kept us helping and participating in the school´s activities. W...

From left to right: Bruce Neuberger, George & Kristen Pursley, Cynthia Eagleton At the 2015 Network for Public Education Conference in Chicago , Kristen Pursley, Bruce Neuberger, and I presented a panel entitled, "The Battle for Adult Education." The Conference was deep and powerful.  The keynote speeches and several workshops are available to view online  - and I highly recommend that you do so.  Cuts and reform in California Adult Education are part of a larger puzzle affecting every piece of Public Education in the US.  To understand what is happening in Adult Education in California - and to influence it in a positive direction - we need to understand what is happening elsewhere. Understandably, that can be overwhelming.  But taking the time to watch a few videos, read an article, or follow grassroots organization like K12 News Network  or bloggers like Edushyster or  The Jose Vilson  or Cloaking Inequality on s...

It's Spring - and that means conferences and conventions and legislative hearings and meetings and lots of talk about budget leading up to July 1st, 2015, the start of a new fiscal year and a new era for Adult Education in California. Each event has its own focus.  Every event is a chance to connect with and learn from others.  Here's what's happening in the world of Adult Ed Spring 2015 along with my notes about how the event connects with advocacy for Adult Ed. 1.  CCAE Bay Section Conference February 28 in Berkeley , Northern California.   State Senator Loni Hancock and Berkeley Mayor Tom Bates will speak.  There will be a variety of valuable workshops, including a SMAS  presentation on The Power of Student Leadership.  The Conference will be held at Berkeley Adult School which  recently faced the possibility of being uprooted or decentralized .  This brings home the truth we are still in the process of stabilizing A...