CAEP
Annual Plan

Produced: Aug 15, 2025, 05:28 PM UTC - By Carrie Casto

51 South Bay Consortium for Adult Education
CONSORTIUM APPROVED

2025-26

Plans & Goals

Executive Summary

The South Bay Consortium for Adult Education (SBCAE)'s annual plan for 2025-26 focuses on the implementation of initial objectives of the Activities outlined in the SBCAE 2025-28 three-year Regional Plan for Adult Education. SBCAE's previous Three-year Regional plan was ambitious, laying the ground work for a wide variety of specific initiatives designed to increase career training options, improve support structures and solidify consortia-wide functions. SBCAE's enrollment surged over the life of the 2022-25 plan, with final year enrollment having increased by approximately 30% over the 2022 planning baseline. Most outcomes have likewise improved. 

In the prior annual plan year, SBCAE's focus was on analyzing the effectiveness of these initiatives, integrating improvements into steady-state operations, and narrowing the focus of the impending regional plan in response to the regional assessment and operational contexts of 2025. SBCAE's vision for 2025-28 is to incorporate four main interconnected activities, all focused on enabling students to reach their goals efficiently and to increase access to gainful employment and economic mobility. To that end, each of the three-year plan activities has objectives for their first year and the concern of this first Annual Plan is in accomplishing these objectives.

Address Educational Needs: 

The primary strategy is to "Increase Access to Career Pathway Programs that more effectively lead to employment and economic mobility". Year 1 for this Activity is to establishing a Career Pathway Committee which will include members of Adult Ed, Community College, and eventually, industry advocates for Healthcare and Advanced Manufacturing. This committee will meet regularly with the goal of establishing and executing a plan to increase the number of currently existing CTE pathways which have industry partnerships, as well as to explore the creation of short term career skill programs for industry partners in identified priority sectors.

Improve Integration of Services & Transitions:

SBCAE will focus on two Activities which will directly support students;  1) Implementing Individual Academic Plans (IAP) for Students, and 2) Establishing a Shared, Intentional, Adult Dual Enrollment System. Goals for 2025-26 for the former are to agree on an IAP template, transition points and identify key levers for implementation. Goals for the later for 2025-26 are to assess current status of dual enrollment processes and identify system gaps and student challenges 

Improve Effectiveness of Services:

Effective services are disseminated by effective agencies, effective agencies are so because they have effective employees and professional development is critical for supporting our faculty and staff. SBCAE's primary activity to meet this objective is to "Expand Professional Development Opportunities," integrating Faculty Networking Groups and shared initiatives like CASAS Teacher Portal, IAP support, and the use of career pathway navigation infrastructure. The goals for this current Annual Plan are to form a committee for Professional Development which will be tasked with establishing the plan to create PD supporting the consortium's initiatives and the methods by which its effectiveness will be measured.



Plans & Goals

How (if at all) do the consortium’s previous program year goals differ from the current year’s goals?

Goals have changed or new goals have emerged for the upcoming year

Why have the consortium’s goals changed for the upcoming year?

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How much progress did the consortium make towards its previous program year goals?

Some progress - around half of the goals were met

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What barriers did the consortium face in making progress towards its previous program year goals?

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What are the goals for the consortium for the current program year?

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How will the consortium measure progress towards the goals set for the current program year?

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Assessment

Regional Needs Assessment

Please identify the categories of needs in your region.

Please identify resources used to identify these gaps.

Effectiveness will be measured in two domains. First, through our regular examination of our local student data and tracking our progress toward our Three-year plan targets, and second by the number of stated strategic plan goals we are able to achieve. 

Various publicly available data sources clearly demonstrate that students who live in the Santa Clara County (specifically the San Jose metropolitan area) region experience one of the more extreme costs-of-living in the entirety of the United States. The gamut of needs that any particular student may have can be widely varied, as is demonstrated by the shear number of need areas identified above. This complexity encouraged SBCAE to narrow its focus on the priority of improving the viability of our Career Pathway offerings and building the necessary infrastructure to ensure these pathways are efficiently navigable and cohesive across our nine member schools.

Activities & Outcomes

Objective #1: Address Educational Needs

Enhance & Expand Career Pathway Offerings

THREE-YEAR PLAN 2025-28

The following components of the activity are primary focus areas for this activities success.

  • Mapping Career Pathways from AE and Noncredit to Credit Degrees/Certificates including Industry Partnerships
  • Leverage Credit for Prior Learning to Credit Courses
  • Work with industry partners and establish MOU’s to increase internships, apprenticeships and direct hire opportunities
  • Pathway maps will be created to help guide shared understanding of opportunities for students and key transition points for schools

All members with Active CE will contribute to this Activity by supporting pathway mapping via data sharing.

A committee to focus on managing the above components which will consist of SBCAE leadership and representatives from Adult Ed and College Administration, CE faculty, and leverage industry partner consultation. This committee will share the responsibility of executing this activity.

Enhancing our existing career pathways and being intentional about building new pathways will support more students engaging in CE while increasing their employment opportunities upon completion. If successful, this will support adults with achieving their goals and addressing the need for gainful employment and economic mobility.

Adult Education Metrics and Student Barriers

  • All: Participants (202AE)
  • Student Barriers: English Language Learner (149AE)
  • Success: Diploma, GED or High School Equivalency (633AE)
  • Success: Postsecondary Credential (624AE)
  • Transition: Transitioned to CTE (636AE)
  • Transition: Transitioned to Non-Developmental Credit College Course (637AE)

Responsible Positions, Responsible Consortium Members, and Proposed Completion Date

Responsible PositionResponsible MemberProposed Completion Date
SBCAE DirectorCampbell Union High06/30/2028
SBCAE Community College Co-chairSan Jose-Evergreen CCD06/30/2028
SBCAE Adult Education Co-chairEast Side Union High06/30/2028
Director of Educational PartnershipsWest Valley-Mission CCD06/30/2028

Objective #2: Improve Integration of Services & Transitions

Implement Individual Academic Plans

THREE-YEAR PLAN 2025-28

SBCAE will implement an Individual Academic Plan for all students via the following project components

  • Build a project model and incorporate lessons learned from CAERC’s Academic and Career Plans 
  • Establish infrastructure for IAPs, including points of contact, and responsible stakeholders
  • Establish template which accommodates student enrollment and exit processes and overlays onto college ed plans
  • Identify pilot agencies and/or cohort and CIP processes
  • Implement and iterate during pilot
  • Expand footprint to whole network, incorporate CIP methodology

All members will participate in this activity at various stages


Adult Education Metrics and Student Barriers

  • All: Participants (202AE)
  • All: Reportable Individuals (200AE)
  • Progress: Completed Educational Functioning Level Gain (400AE)
  • Progress: Immigration Integration Milestone (411AE)
  • Student Barriers: English Language Learner (149AE)
  • Success: Diploma, GED or High School Equivalency (633AE)
  • Success: Postsecondary Credential (624AE)
  • Transition: Transitioned to ASE (500AE)
  • Transition: Transitioned to CTE (636AE)
  • Transition: Transitioned to Non-Developmental Credit College Course (637AE)

Responsible Positions, Responsible Consortium Members, and Proposed Completion Date

Responsible PositionResponsible MemberProposed Completion Date
SBCAE DirectorCampbell Union High06/30/2028
SBCAE Community College Co-chairSan Jose-Evergreen CCD06/30/2028
SBCAE Adult Education Co-chairEast Side Union High06/30/2028

Establish a shared adult dual enrollment system

THREE-YEAR PLAN 2025-28

The following components of the activity are primary focus areas for this activities success.

  • Collect and engage key personnel at AE’s and CC’s 
  • Inventory current assets and processes under which students are currently engaged in Adult Dual Enrollment
  • Establish consensus on processes and document member specific needs
  • Establish ASE and CE pathways based on student goals for ADE
  • Identify and engage support services to ensure student success

Each member will be responsible to assign individuals to this project based on their current enrollment, transition, and administration support staff who are focused on the ASE program area. Colleges will provide support with enrollment and course selection via the IAP/EdPlan. This process will also highlight priority CE pathways for ADE students for high-touch support services.

Adult Education Metrics and Student Barriers

  • All: Participants (202AE)
  • All: Reportable Individuals (200AE)
  • Student Barriers: English Language Learner (149AE)
  • Success: Diploma, GED or High School Equivalency (633AE)
  • Transition: Transitioned to CTE (636AE)
  • Transition: Transitioned to Non-Developmental Credit College Course (637AE)

Responsible Positions, Responsible Consortium Members, and Proposed Completion Date

Responsible PositionResponsible MemberProposed Completion Date
SBCAE DirectorCampbell Union High06/30/2028
Director of Educational PartnershipsWest Valley-Mission CCD06/30/2028
SBCAE Community College Co-chairSan Jose-Evergreen CCD06/30/2028
SBCAE Adult Education Co-chairEast Side Union High06/30/2028

Objective #3: Improve Effectiveness of Services

Expand Professional Development Opportunities

THREE-YEAR PLAN 2025-28

The following components of the activity are primary focus areas for this activities success.

  • Integrate Faculty Networking Groups as Peer Learning Communities
  • Expand and improve AWD Support offerings
  • Incorporate shared initiatives
    • CASAS Teacher Portal
    • Adult Dual Enrollment
    • Career Exploration Tools
    • Individual Academic Plan Support

Acting as a support to all other activities in this three-year plan, the expansion of SBCAE's capacity to deliver professional development is a critical lever for success. Aside from providing stakeholder feedback to consortium efforts, there is much to be gained from a broader shared understanding of these shared initiatives, and ensuring staff have the opportunity to develop and connect is a necessary aspect of operation. 

Adult Education Metrics and Student Barriers

  • All: Participants (202AE)
  • All: Reportable Individuals (200AE)
  • Progress: Completed Educational Functioning Level Gain (400AE)
  • Progress: Immigration Integration Milestone (411AE)
  • Student Barriers: English Language Learner (149AE)
  • Success: Diploma, GED or High School Equivalency (633AE)
  • Success: Postsecondary Credential (624AE)
  • Transition: Transitioned to ASE (500AE)
  • Transition: Transitioned to CTE (636AE)

Responsible Positions, Responsible Consortium Members, and Proposed Completion Date

Responsible PositionResponsible MemberProposed Completion Date
SBCAE DirectorCampbell Union High06/30/2028
SBCAE Community College Co-chairSan Jose-Evergreen CCD06/30/2028
SBCAE Adult Education Co-chairEast Side Union High06/30/2028

Fiscal Management

Alignment & Carryover

All of SBCAE members expend their CAEP allocation to support the seven CAEP program areas in accordance with the CAEP fiscal management guidelines. The three year plan strategies and activities are all designed to improve these programs and students' success in navigating through their journeys. The 2025-26 Annual Plan activities are focused on the necessary steps to accomplish these three-year plan activities and are aligned by design.

SBCAE has implemented a Innovation Fund program which enables members who do not have the necessary funds to propose projects that expand their capacity to serve their communities. The SBCAE Member Effectiveness Committee assesses these proposals and their alignment to current regional strategic plans and makes a recommendation to the steering committee regarding the approval of these Innovation Fund proposals during a regular public meeting. Members whose carryover exceeds 20% for two years in row may have that overage allocated to these projects, providing a direct route for these funds to support SBCAE students and planned activities.

Usage

How does the consortium plan to use allocated funds in the upcoming year?

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Consortium Objectives & Activities Overview

Objectives & Activities

= consortium has included this activity in an Annual Plan from the 2025-28 Three-Year Plan
= consortium has NOT selected this activity in an Annual Plan from the 2025-28 Three-Year Plan
ActivityOriginIncluded in Annual Plan
Objective #1: Address Educational Needs
Enhance & Expand Career Pathway Offerings
THREE-YEAR PLAN 2025-28
Objective #2: Improve Integration of Services & Transitions
Establish a shared adult dual enrollment system
THREE-YEAR PLAN 2025-28
Implement Individual Academic Plans
THREE-YEAR PLAN 2025-28
Objective #3: Improve Effectiveness of Services
Expand Professional Development Opportunities
THREE-YEAR PLAN 2025-28

Certification

Campbell Union High - Member Representative

Approved by Harkirat (Kira) Mann

08/14/2025 04:21 PM PDT

East Side Union High - Member Representative

Approved by Traci Williams

08/04/2025 01:21 PM PDT

Metropolitan Education District - Member Representative

Approved by Sheena Fuentes

08/13/2025 11:27 AM PDT

Milpitas Unified - Member Representative

Approved by 51 Giuliana Brahim

08/14/2025 04:11 PM PDT

San Jose-Evergreen CCD - Member Representative

Approved by Edwin Chandrasekar

08/04/2025 12:43 PM PDT

Santa Clara Unified - Member Representative

Approved by Carrie Casto

08/15/2025 10:28 AM PDT

West Valley-Mission CCD - Member Representative

Approved by Erika Vargas

08/13/2025 11:28 AM PDT