Produced: Aug 7, 2025, 11:52 PM UTC - By Bryan Wilson
2025-26
Plans & Goals
Assessment
Activities & Outcomes
Objective #1: Address Educational Needs
Improve Attendance
Objective #2: Improve Integration of Services & Transitions
Dual Enrollment
Dual enrollment for students 18 years and older may enhance community members' ability to complete their goals, whether it be at the adult school or community college level. Both the college and the adult school will work in tandem to strategize and develop or streamline processes to track students, data, and efficacy of dual enrollment programs. Furthermore, this area will include marketing and networking to highlight the program's availability to those who qualify. Transitions and EFL levels are two of the CAEP objectives this proposal will meet, though others may come to light as the program begins.College of the Canyons and Golden Oak Adult School collaborate to develop processes for an adult dual enrollment program. Working together, students will have the resources and support from both the college and the adult school to successfully complete their HS diploma, GED, or HiSet program while taking college credit courses. This will require points of contact at both institutions to ensure a smooth and seamless process for students while also identifying any pinch points that may dissuade students from continuing in the program. This year’s annual plan will include implementing processes, identifying potential students and partnership opportunities in order to develop strategies and close identified gaps.
Adult Education Metrics and Student Barriers
- All: Participants (202AE)
Responsible Positions, Responsible Consortium Members, and Proposed Completion Date
Responsible Position | Responsible Member | Proposed Completion Date |
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Administration | William S. Hart Union High | 06/30/2028 |
Administration | Santa Clarita CCD | 06/30/2028 |
Objective #3: Improve Effectiveness of Services
Professional Development Tracking
Though marketing has been addressed in the past, the differing needs, resources, and geographical barriers to students may be alleviated with stronger marketing of overall programs rather than just the adult school or college individually, so both agencies will carry this out. The tenor of the plan is to address all CAEP areas, and should contribute to all of the goals below while simultaneously closing gaps and barriers.
For this annual plan, we will examine past marketing efforts to identify gaps and efficacy. Then we will strategize on how to move forward based on our research outcomes.
Professional Development is integral to any organization so it is important for the consortium to look at both organization’s Professional Development offerings and see where there may be overlap to combine Professional Development opportunities further ensuring students are receiving the best educational opportunities available while also building a stronger connection between the college and the adult school faculty and staff. To ensure we are meeting goals of professional development, we will be looking at ways to effectively track, credit, and report professional development between/among members. By streamlining tracking, administrators, staff , and faculty can share their expertise in a meaningful way, which in turn is a benefit to students and the community, which in turn can meet any CAEPobjective.
For this annual plan, we will investigate and research possible tracking mechanisms.
Adult Education Metrics and Student Barriers
- All: Reportable Individuals (200AE)
Responsible Positions, Responsible Consortium Members, and Proposed Completion Date
Responsible Position | Responsible Member | Proposed Completion Date |
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Coordinator | Santa Clarita CCD | 06/30/2028 |
Administration | Santa Clarita CCD | 06/30/2028 |
Administration | William S. Hart Union High | 06/30/2028 |
Fiscal Management
Alignment & Carryover
The breakdown of deliverables in years one through three have been disaggregated into our Annual Plan. The allocation requests are consistent with consortium bylaws to support the needs of communities served by both GatewaySCV members as well as institutional need to deploy, maintain, and track programs offered. For the current year, the Board has approved the additional COLA at a 50/50 rate allocation in addition to the formerly set base allocations (approximately 70/30 Adult School/Community college )which have not changed. At this time, our consortia is working with CAEP and State finance personnel to ascertain why the amounts in NOVA are not reflective of our agreed percentages, why they do not match what is in NOVA, and importantly, did we physically receive the correct amount, regardless of what is in NOVA. Currently, we have been informed by the State that corrections, due to the time passed for the initial error (2020/2021), will need to be done at the programming level, but we are still waiting for information on the rest of our concerns as they directly relate to our ability to fulfill our goals for students, and our ability to provide efficacy in our WEP to reduce carryover. Finally, given the uncertainty about federal and state funding, new courses or programs requiring financial resources may be placed on hold for the next two to three years.
Presently, the CAEPTap Team has reached out to the State on our behalf regarding a discrepancy in the NOVA allocation and actual allocation. This issue has halted progress in many areas as we must know our true numbers to budget appropriately and resolve any carryover. As the carryover for the adult school was due to district personnel changes, with the added guidance from a district director and a CAEP handbook being created, at the present time, we are on track to solve the issue but are waiting for true budget numbers from the State. The CAEP coordinator will also make sure to alert all members, including District officials and finance personnel, of any training that may impact them, which is also included as part of our handbook. It was determined by the consortium that GOAS had a carryover of 37.5% in late August of 2024. In discussions with GOAS, the consortium learned that the site was waiting on further guidelines from the district regarding the use of CAEP funds available in the 2023-2024 school year for GOAS to purchase new furniture for adult education classrooms. GOAS has expressed to the district a desire to increase adult education class opportunities in ESL to address the needs of the SCV adult community. Currently, there are two classrooms that are occupied by a Special Education Transition program. GOAS is working with the district to identify a new location for these courses which will enable GOAS to expand courses. In the late spring of 2024, the district superintendent announced he would be leaving the district and moving up north. This change in leadership, coupled with labor negotiations from both bargaining units, slowed down the district's decision to move the SPED Program. This resulted in GOAS not purchasing the furniture because they were not aware of the final decisions regarding moving the SPED classes. Once the consortium provides final approval for GOAS to retain and spend the 20% threshold, and with Golden Oak Adult School just learning in October of 2024, the interim superintendent has decided the earliest the SPED program would be moved is the 2025/2026 school year. With this final update, GOAS plans to use the carryover funds to purchase SMARTBOARDS and new computers for each of the existing GOAS classrooms. The consortium coordinator has met with all of the new parties, has provided training, discussed planning and NOVA as well as consortium processes; however, that process was not complete at the time of the Q4 deadline. Members are working to fulfill the adult school's plans going forward in order to reduce carryover. Additionally, a handbook for new members has been created to address any turnover issues in an expedient manner.
Usage
All carryover from the previous fiscal year will be spent by December of 2024 and is on target to spend all the current 2024/2025 CAEP funds by the end of the 2025 FY. This will be completed by adding a bilingual counselor to the GOAS staff to support adult students. Additional plans for spending include increasing collaboration meetings with adult teachers to support the learning needs of students and purchasing updated instructional materials to support the needs of adult learners. Further, activities specified in our Written Expenditure Plan will be carried out, as long as the NOVA reporting and internal reporting and State communication issue is resolved.
Consortium Objectives & Activities Overview
Objectives & Activities
Activity | Origin | Included in Annual Plan |
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Objective #1: Address Educational Needs | ||
Improve Attendance | THREE-YEAR PLAN 2025-28 | |
Objective #2: Improve Integration of Services & Transitions | ||
Dual Enrollment | THREE-YEAR PLAN 2025-28 | |
Marketing | THREE-YEAR PLAN 2025-28 | |
Objective #3: Improve Effectiveness of Services | ||
Professional Development Tracking | THREE-YEAR PLAN 2025-28 |
Certification
Santa Clarita CCD - Member Representative
Kim Haglund - GatewaySCV Coordinator
- Kimberly.Haglund@canyons.edu
- (661) 904-3054
Carolyn Shaw - Director, Grants and Categotrical Accounting
- carolyn.shaw@canyons.edu
- (661) 362-3482
Dianne Avery - Dean, Academic Innovation and Continuing Education
- dianne.avery@canyons.edu
- (661) 362-3376
Jason Hinkle - jason.hinkle@canyons.edu
William S. Hart Union High - Member Representative
Bryan Wilson - Principal
- bwilson@hartdistrict.org
- (661) 253-0583 ext: 105
Carolyn McMahon - Account Technician II
- cmcmahon@hartdistrict.org
- (661) 259-0033 ext: 265