Education

July 6, 2022 0

Working Partnership: Workforce development and adult schools team up to promote job readiness

by Gail Allyn Short Today, many job sectors are experiencing worker shortages. But filling those open positions means workers must have the education needed to qualify for those jobs. In fact, [Read more]

May 31, 2022 0

How to Help Your Kids Help Themselves: Advice for parents who are trying to stop bullying

This is an excerpt from our most recent publication "How do You Stop a Bully?" for Nevada Governor's Council on Developmental Disabilities. You can find this and more publications like it by visiting [Read more]

April 1, 2022 0

No Barriers

Great teachers, it is said, open pathways to success for their students. But Hermelinda Aguirre has a different narrative. She maintains the gateway to her dreams was opened by a brilliant transition [Read more]

January 5, 2022 0

Finding the right notes for success

Amy Barthel understands the delicate transition students face in leaving elementary school and transitioning to middle school. As the fine arts coordinator for the Washoe County School District [Read more]

January 4, 2022 0

A welcoming community, great teachers and plenty of opportunity to grow

Westlake Charter School’s approach to education invests not only in students’ academic readiness, but in their social-emotional readiness as well. Students share what they enjoy most about [Read more]

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October 26, 2021 0

Where Learning Never Stops

For Lourdes Melchor Suastegui, education is a journey. Once she decided to get her high school diploma, she wasn’t going to stop. “I am a mother of three boys, two of them are twins,” explained [Read more]

September 30, 2021 0

Social-Emotional Learning in Adult Education

“When I started this job, I told myself I wanted to teach in the way I would want to be a student in my own class,” says Timothy Amaral, a GED instructor for the Salinas Adult School and [Read more]

July 2, 2021 0

Creating Pathways Out of Poverty

For more than a century, adult education has helped residents of Tulare and Kings counties learn the skills they need for better lives. As the region prepares for future growth and pivots after the [Read more]

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