Redwoods Adult Education Consortium Eureka Area Regional Focus Workgroups 1 & 2 Meeting: Adult Basic Education, Adult Basic Skills, Education for Adults with Disabilities, ESL and Immigrant Education Thursday, September 4, 2014, 11:00 AM – 1:00 PM Eureka Main Campus Room SS 104 The Combined Workgroups Julia Peterson David Lonn Ed Wilkinson Emma Breacin Jim McQuillen John Lee Jon Sapper Marco Luna Rick Jordan Trish Blair Victor Zazueta Elsie McLaughlin-Feliz College of the Redwoods Northern Humboldt Unified School District Humboldt County Sheriff’s Department Humboldt Literacy Project Yurok Tribe Humboldt State University Humboldt County Office of Education Humboldt County Corrections Department Eureka City Schools CR Disabled Student Program Services Humboldt County Library Yurok Tribe Agenda 1. Lunch and Introductions 2. Review Workgroup Activity 3. Regional Comprehensive Plan Objectives a. Objective 3: Plans for consortium members and partners to integrate existing programs and create seamless transitions into postsecondary education or the workforce. b. Objective 5: Plans to employ approaches proven to accelerate a student’s progress toward his or her academic or career goals, such as contextualized basic skills and career technical education, and other joint programming strategies between adult education and career technical education. c. Objective 6: Plans to collaborate in the provision of ongoing professional development opportunities for faculty and other staff to help them achieve greater program integration and improve student outcomes. d. Objective 7: Plans to leverage existing regional structures, including, but not limited to, local workforce investment areas. 4. Data Collection: Second set of data due October 3 (next reporting deadline is October 31st) 5. Executive Advisory Committee Report