Produced: Aug 15, 2025, 05:28 PM UTC - By Carrie Casto
2025-26
Plans & Goals
Assessment
Activities & Outcomes
Objective #1: Address Educational Needs
Enhance & Expand Career Pathway Offerings
Objective #2: Improve Integration of Services & Transitions
Implement Individual Academic Plans
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 Position | Responsible Member | Proposed Completion Date |
|---|---|---|
| SBCAE Director | Campbell Union High | 06/30/2028 |
| SBCAE Community College Co-chair | San Jose-Evergreen CCD | 06/30/2028 |
| SBCAE Adult Education Co-chair | East Side Union High | 06/30/2028 |
Establish a shared adult dual enrollment system
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 Position | Responsible Member | Proposed Completion Date |
|---|---|---|
| SBCAE Director | Campbell Union High | 06/30/2028 |
| Director of Educational Partnerships | West Valley-Mission CCD | 06/30/2028 |
| SBCAE Community College Co-chair | San Jose-Evergreen CCD | 06/30/2028 |
| SBCAE Adult Education Co-chair | East Side Union High | 06/30/2028 |
Objective #3: Improve Effectiveness of Services
Expand Professional Development Opportunities
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 Position | Responsible Member | Proposed Completion Date |
|---|---|---|
| SBCAE Director | Campbell Union High | 06/30/2028 |
| SBCAE Community College Co-chair | San Jose-Evergreen CCD | 06/30/2028 |
| SBCAE Adult Education Co-chair | East Side Union High | 06/30/2028 |
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
Consortium Objectives & Activities Overview
Objectives & Activities
| Activity | Origin | Included 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
Harkirat (Kira) Mann - Director
- kmann@cuhsd.org
- (408) 626-3402 ext: 2601
East Side Union High - Member Representative
Traci Williams - Director
- williamst@esuhsd.org
- (408) 928-9310
Metropolitan Education District - Member Representative
Maliheh Vafai - Director of Adult Education
- mvafai@metroed.net
- (408) 723-4259 ext: 1259
Sheena Fuentes - Senior Accountant
- sfuentes@metroed.net
- (408) 723-6428
Lars Guntvedt - Assistant Principal
- lguntvedt@metroed.net
- (408) 723-4230
Wendy Zhang - CBO
- wzhang@metroed.net
- (408) 723-6419
Milpitas Unified - Member Representative
Giuliana Brahim - Principal
- gbrahim@musd.org
- (408) 635-2692 ext: 4556
Priti Johari - Executive Director
- pjohari@musd.org
San Jose-Evergreen CCD - Member Representative
Tu Nguyen - Staff Accountant
- tu.nguyen@sjeccd.edu
- (408) 298-2181 ext: 3271
Maniphone Dickerson - Vice President Strategic Partnerships and Workforce Innovation
- Maniphone.dickerson@sjcc.edu
- (408) 288-3180
Edwin Chandrasekar - VIce Chancellor, Admin Services
- edwin.chandrasekar@sjeccd.edu
- (408) 270-6428
Santa Clara Unified - Member Representative
Carrie Casto - Principal, Adult Ed.
- ccasto@scusd.net
- (408) 423-3501
Christine Berdiansky - Program Administrator
- cberdiansky@scusd.net
- (408) 423-3503
West Valley-Mission CCD - Member Representative
Julian Branch - Director of Educational Partnerships
- julian.branch@missioncollege.edu
Erika Vargas - Dean Health & Human Development
- erika.vargas@westvalley.edu
- (408) 741-2523 ext: 2523
Mark Manrose - Director of Continuing Education
- mark.manrose@westvalley.edu
- (408) 741-2469
Eric Grabiel - Director, School of Continuing Education
- Eric.Grabiel@westvalley.edu
- (408) 741-2137