1. Grossmont Adult School
The Fabric of East County
since 1946
Good evening and thank you for opportunity to provide the Governing Board with an overview of Grossmont Adult School. We hope to share some data and numbers that we think will please you and may even surprise you. Most importantly we want to relate the heart of what we do, and how Grossmont Adult School is interwoven throughout the East County Community.
Joining me tonight is my administrative team, Tim Lindley, Jeff Meredith, Carol Otjens, Phyllis Ruth, Robyn Wiggins, and Brian Wilbur and my secretary Vicki Gagliardi.
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2. Adult School Offices Part of the community since 1946
Classes offered at 102 different sites throughout East County
5 Adult Education Offices
East County Career Center
El Cajon Adult Center
El Cajon Adult Center
Foothills Adult Center
Health Occupations Center
Steele Canyon Adult Center
GARY Grossmont Adult School started on Main St. in El Cajon, in We have been part of the Grossmont District and the fabric of East County for over 65 years. Currently we have five Adult School Centers, but we offer classes at over 100 sites, throughout the San Diego County.
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3. Student Population 241 teachers x 33,145 students x 1,907 classes
Over 2 million
student contact hours
GARY Now for some numbers. If one of us lived for 2 million hours, and I know that is a goal for some of you, we would be over 228 years old.
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Last school year our 241 teachers served over 33,000 students in more than 1,900 classes. Our teachers had over 2 million student contact hours.

4. Student Population
GARY Grossmont Adult School serves more students than all the other sites and programs in our district, (pause) combined.
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5. High School Diploma/GED Prep
Student Population
Home Arts
Parent Education
Exercise and Fitness
Computer
Students of varying demographic profiles attend the variety of programs offered through Grossmont Adult School.
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The ages of our students span over 80 years! As you will see
We serve HS students for credit recovery as well as senior citizens.
Our students include the homeless, the unemployed, as well as the employed, and we serve many District employees,
We serve Refugees, Active duty military and veterans, and we serve Correctional inmates throughout San Diego County
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Arts
High School Diploma/GED Prep
ESL

6. High School Diploma/GED
Every student has a story!
BRIAN This is Tammy Van De Walker. She came to us when she began having a hard time helping her daughter Ashley with her homework. Tammy had only passed nine classes in high school. While understanding getting a GED would be much quicker, she was determined to become a high school graduate. She worked diligently passing class after class and on Tuesday, June 19, 2012 (pause) after three years of hard work and sacrifice (pause) the day before her oldest daughter graduated from El Capitan High School, (pause) Tammy Van De Walker became an official high school graduate.
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Last year there were 112 graduates and every one of them had their own story of obstacles they’ve overcome. We are more than just “night school”. We are a second chance.
More than just
“night school”!

7. High School Diploma/GED
Graduation
112 adult graduates
Official GED testing center
896 passed the GED test
Recovery credits for HS seniors
910 Concurrently Enrolled High School students
560 classes completed
BRIAN An increasing number of people looking for jobs, or already holding jobs, are finding that having a high school diploma or GED is necessary to earn or maintain a position.
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We offer HS Diploma and GED classes 11 hours a day and GED tests 10 times weekly, helping more than 1000 members of our community to become positive contributing members of society.
We offer credit recovery programs on each of our high school campuses in an effort to help current students graduate with their class. In the school year, 560 classes were completed through Grossmont Adult School.
We’ve reached out to other agencies servicing the East County as well. The East County Transitional Living Center serves newly homeless families and singles recovering from issues. Their goal is to help these newly homes avoid becoming permanently homeless. Grossmont Adult recently started a GED program there with our first two students ready to test this month.

8. Career Technical Education
8,250 CTE students during school year
Real Estate License Preparation
Income Tax Preparer
Auto Body Repair
Block Masonry
Heating and Air Conditioning
Foodhandler Certificate
Apprenticeship programs
Firefighters
Iron Workers
Machinists
Upholstery
CAROL Last month you saw how our high school students are involved in Career Technical Education. We are here to let you know that CTE for adults is strong in our District as well. Just last year we had over 8,000 adult CTE students in numerous career-themed classes that received job-ready skills. Many of these students are now working in their industry due to the great instruction, equipment, and facilities available to them. Still others are in apprenticeship programs that will further their skills in the industry in which they currently work.
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Automotive Repair

9. Health Occupations Center
Pharmacy Technician
Dental Assistant
Phlebotomist
Nursing In
2,227 students enrolled in 25 different courses at HOC
Many students received state certifications in their medical field of expertise
Students received job ready skills, many are already employed
CAROL The Grossmont Health Occupations Center is a unique campus that is the epitome of Career Technical Education. With a specific focus on the health care industry, HOC offers adults a wide variety of courses specific to the medical field. Many of our programs offer students state certifications upon completion that give our students an advantage over other applicants. And, last year 77% of our student population continued their health care education or immediately got jobs in the medical field.
HOC has a great reputation in our community! In fact, Kaiser Hospital thinks so highly of our programs, that we will soon be entering into a collaborative agreement. In an effort to increase patient care, Kaiser Hospital would like to enroll 59 of their currently employed “Unit Assistants” into our Certified Nursing Assistant program. They had the option of calling many educational programs for this arrangement, but they only called one; us! They are confident in our programs due to the successes that our students have had at their many facilities.
At the Grossmont Health Occupations Center, many students are completing classes and becoming a vital part of the healthcare team.
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Medical Lab
Assistant
Emergency Medical Technician

10. East County Career Center
ECCC is the original One Stop Career Center
Serving customers for over 35 years
2,000 customers per month
Secured over $1 million in grants
25 partners from education, business, social services, community services, legislative representatives, and community members
PHYLLIS East County Career Center has been serving customers for over 35 years. Economic Times are tough and over 2,000 customers per month turn to us for workshops and classes to enhance employable skills. Each customer meets with an Employment Advisor to develop their best plan for gaining employment. ECCC has On-the-Job trainings and Internship for adults and youth. One example from our Youth program is Tara Gray who was placed as an intern to work with Jim Kelly's office. She was so appreciated that he hired her after high school graduation.  
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11. East County Career Center
Bell ringing
Success stories
PHYLLIS
Ring that bell! Each time a customer gets a job the office staff rings the bell!!!  Everyone knows this is good news!
One of our most recent successes is a customer who attended Foothills Adult School and received her GED at the age of 40. She came to ECCC because she lost her job. She attended the Career Change and Job Search Workshops and began working with an Employment Advisor.  Because she had her GED,  she was able to enter vocational training to begin her health-related career as a Certified Nurses Assistant. She was hired in her new job July 2012.
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Ring that bell!

12. English as a Second Language
3,637 students learning the English language
52 classes at 19 locations
Citizenship classes
Community Based English Tutoring program (CBET)
ROBYN El Cajon Adult Center helps more than 3,500 people new to our country, not only learn the English language, but to educate them about American culture and customs. 
Classes are available at 19 different sites ranging from Blossom Valley to Spring Valley to Santee.
Community Based English Tutoring, also known as CBET, is an invaluable program because it enables ESL students to interact with the community at large.  CBET classes are offered on local elementary school campuses, and our Adult ESL students take part in meetings with their children's teachers, discuss health issues with medical professionals, volunteer in classrooms to assist the teachers, and become an integral part of their surrounding community. 
An adult CBET student recently had to take her child to Children’s hospital and came back to class crying. (pause) She wasn’t crying because of her child, he was fine. She was crying because she was so grateful to have the English skills needed to communicate with her child's doctor. This is one of many success stories I could share with you.
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13. Correctional Education
7 detention facilities
5,500 inmate students
English literacy
GED preparation and testing
Vocational/Career Technical Education classes
Prepares inmates for re-entry into the job market
TIM Grossmont Adult School has been working with the San Diego County Sheriff’s Department providing inmate education services for over 15 years at all seven of their adult level detention facilities.
The program’s facilities stretch from Vista in the north to San Ysidro on the south end of the county.
The goal of our Correctional Ed program is to provide inmate students with the knowledge and skills to help them transition back into the general public and become productive citizens.
In a typical year, the program has approximately 300 students pass the GED test before they leave the detention facilities.
Our Career Technical Education classes provide each student with the knowledge, skills, and training in a variety of employment areas.
These classes not only teach employable skills, but also produce professional quality products. For example, the commercial sewing class students at the Las Colinas Detention Facility produce the clothing worn by every inmate in each of the seven facilities. Our Correctional Ed Printing class at East Mesa Detention Facility produces the retirement plaques presented at our own Golden Apple awards ceremony each year.
Our Correctional Ed program gives over 5,500 inmates a year a second chance in life and a great opportunity to become productive citizens.
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14. Technology Classes 2,090 students enrolled in technology classes
Introduction to Computers
Microsoft Office Suite
Computerized Accounting
Web Page Design
MacIntosh classes
Social Media
Facebook
LinkedIn
Google Documents
JEFF With over 2,000 students enrolled in our computer classes we have a class to fit most every need. We’ve recently converted one of our PC labs to a Mac lab so we can provide classes for both Mac and PC users. We offer classes for all ability levels. Beginners often have no previous computer experience, in fact, they may never have turned a computer on. Students looking for a new job or job promotion take Word, Excel, or Quickbooks classes.
Keeping up with the latest in Social Media is important. Many of our students have children and grandchildren on Facebook but do not know how to use it. So we put together a series of social media classes on Friday mornings to help them communicate with family and friends. In addition to Facebook we offer LinkedIn, Google Documents, and Twitter. If your children or grandchildren use social media to communicate, you are welcome to join one of our Friday classes!
Feedback from our students has been consistent and very positive. There are very few places in San Diego County that an adult can go for instruction on the basics of computer operation. Grossmont Adult School meets that need.
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15. Parent Education
Parenting skills for parents of children from newborn to kindergarten age
1,644 students
7 locations
Annual Family University
themed event relevant to parents of all age children
BRIAN When you are going to have a child, you know that your life is going to change. But you don’t really know what that means until your child arrives. Grossmont Adult School is vital to new parents. Our award winning Parent Education program assists hundreds of families learn the skills and techniques to be effective parents and prepare their children for the future.
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The Parent Ed teachers offer Family University which is an annual event held on a Saturday in May. Hundreds of families in the community come together to participate in guest speaker presentations, interact with El Cajon police and fire departments, attend a children’s book fair, create hands on craft activities and play age-appropriate games at the carnival-like event.

16. Something for Everyone!
Yoga
Cooking
Cake Decorating
Floral Design
Spinning
Stained Glass
Upholstery
Painting
Drawing
Photography
Singing
Piano
Dancing
Guitar
Golf
Tennis
Surviving the Home Remodel
Whodunit Book Club
Gary
The programs we highlighted tonight are some of our largest programs, but, we offer many other classes to the community.
Exercise classes range from aerobics to Zumba.
We have a wide variety of visual and performing arts classes.
As you know, needle arts, especially our quilting classes, are very popular now. Grossmont Adult School even offers a class where,
in one day, the students spin, sheep’s wool, into yarn,
and then use that yarn to knit a sweater.
So it’s from sheep to sweater in one day.
Students take our classes for personal reasons as well as learning skills necessary to get a job.  But they also give back to the community.  One brief example is,
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through Project Linus our quilting class, donates quilts, to children in need!

17. Grossmont Adult School
Thank you for your support!
I think you’ll agree. We have something for everyone! We are happy and proud to be a part of the Grossmont District for more than 65 years, and to serve our community members, as they improve themselves, and improve the community as a whole.
We hope you enjoy the samples we have provided you, and in appreciation of your support, we have given each of you a gift certificate to attend an Adult Ed class of your choice.
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Again, Thank you for your support, we really appreciate it!