Individual Development Plan (IDP)

We are a vibrant community of learners and leaders! 
 Our ongoing professional development is a priority because it has a positive impact on student learning.  We use our individual development plans (IDPs) as tools to reflect on our practices, develop our skills, achieve our goals, and further our school mission.
At our planning meeting in September, our Site Council [...]

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Our ESL Student Transfer Policy and Procedure

We want to remind all ESL teachers, administrators, and office assistants at Newport-Mesa Adult School that our student transfer policy and procedure are as follows…

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New Office Assistant Certificate Program!

  New Certificate Program at Newport-Mesa USD Adult School!
Our new Office Assistant Certificate Program is designed to assist students to prepare for successful employment in an office setting.  The program consists of:

textbook exercises
computer applications
apprenticeship projects

To learn more about this new project-based apprenticeship program, please check out these resources:
Brochure
Program Overview
Informational Postcard
 

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Writing Lesson Plans

Have you checked out The Lesson Plan Builder?  Here’s what OTAN says about its web-based lesson builder:

The Lesson Plan Builder makes it easier for you to develop quality lesson plans that address adult education content standards in the context of CASAS and SCANS competencies.
The Lesson Plan Builder….

provides a customer friendly template to develop lessons for [...]

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Preparing for Paired Scores

One fellow adult ed administrator/blogger emailed me this question today:
How does your site obtain paired scores for your students?
I emailed him with the steps we take at NMUSD Adult School to get as many CASAS paired scores as possible…plus 5 resources to help with the process.  We hope these ideas are helpful.  Good luck, all!

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Get Your House in Order – CASAS is Coming!

The CASAS pre-test is coming to NMUSD Adult School next week ~ September 16 & 18.  Check the Testing Calendar for your site’s testing date.  Also, please review your CASAS’ Sweet Home to prepare for next week’s pre-test.  In particular, look at the following resources before administering the CASAS pre-test to your class next Tuesday or Thursday.  Good luck [...]

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CASAS’ Sweet eHome

 Newport-Mesa Adult School just created CASAS’ Sweet eHome: a happy home for all your CASAS materials.  The purpose of the CASAS’ Sweet eHome is to organize and easily share documents we have created to make CASAS testing process more efficient and effective at our adult school.
Click on Continue Reading » to view, download, and/or edit our [...]

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Substitute Lesson Plans ~ Ready to Go!

We want our substitute teachers to have a productive and pleasant experience with our wonderful students at Newport-Mesa Adult School.  To help with this goal, we created the first STEP:  Substitute Teacher Essentials Packet (click back to return to this site).
The  STEP is an editable document that includes the following:

Table of Contents
Substitute Teacher Instructions
Our Mission and Beliefs
Today’s Lesson [...]

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Our Site-based PD Proposal for 2008-09

Our NMUSD Adult School professional growth team meets today to 1) evaluate our progress towards our 2007-2008 professional development goals, 2) discuss our first draft of our 2008-2009 professional development plan, and 3) review a proposed budget to support our 2008-2009 PD plan.
High-priority action item: discuss new TIMAC component of 2008-09 PD plan – TIMAC application due date is [...]

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WASC Community Council Meeting

Our first Community Council meeting was April 1, 2008.  Fourteen adult school and community members attended.   For more information about our community council, feel free to view the following documents:

To view the list of attending c.c. members, click here.
To view our meeting PowerPoint, click here. 
To review the feedback from c.c. members, click here.

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Site Council Meeting

Our Site Council met on April 3, 2008 to discuss the following agenda items: graduation, summer school, attendance trends and comparisons, one-time site monies, WASC visit preparation, and site updates.
To view our meeting minutes and see our action items, please click here: site-council-minutes-4-3-08.

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BESST-Evening Staff Holds First Team Huddle

Our BESST-evening staff met last night for their first Team Huddle.  The purpose of this 10-minute Team Huddle is to 1) improve communication, 2) share and celebrate successes, and 3) identify and address any areas of improvement.
In last night’s 10-minute Team Huddle, we 1) briefly reviewed upcoming events in March/April,  2) spotlighted 5 best-practices from previous week and 3) [...]

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More e-Surveys for Program Improvement

We have added 7 electronic surveys to our blog.  You can access these surveys on the Downloads page.  Read on to learn how NMUSD Adult School is using these surveys to monitor, evaluate and improve our various adult programs. 

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Free Online Surveys for Ongoing Program Improvement

Are you looking for ways to get teacher and student feedback for ongoing program improvement?  Here’s one great idea…and it won’t cost you a dime!  Read on to discover how NMUSD Adult School uses the free basic account of SurveyMonkey to create online surveys that evaluate our programs and correlate school improvement, professional development and student progress of the [...]

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Reflecting on our IDP Progress on the Blog

As adult educators, we know the importance of lifelong learning and continuous improvement.  Read on to learn how we use technology to help reflect on and revise our daily teaching practices, our 2007-2008 Individual Development Plan goals and our 2007-2008 Professional Growth Plan.  Read on. Soar on!

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Technology + ESLRs = Results!

How can you get several dozen teachers and a few thousand students — all separated by space, time,  content — to participate together in creating, evaluating, revising and approving your Expected Schoolwide Learning Results?  At NMUSD Adult School, we use technology (email, the blog, a PowerPoint, and SmartBoards) to do just that.  Here’s how…  Read [...]

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