ABC Adult School Student Handbook

ABC Adult School 12254 Cuesta Dr., Cerritos, CA 90703 (526) 926-6734 www.abcadultschool.com

Fitness  Academics  Citizenship  Computer Training  English (ESL) Fine Arts/Crafts  GED  High School Diploma  Home Decorative Arts Parent Education

This handbook belongs to:

Computer Training

Consumer Awareness

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Apple, Basic Computer Repair, Office 2007, Digital Camera, Photoshop, QuickBooks, AutoCAD, MOS Certification

Vocational Diploma and Certificate of Proficiency

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Parent Education Parent Leadership Academy

Health and Fitness Program for Older Adults Adults with Disabilities

Senior Aerobics, Walking to Fitness, Chair Total Fitness Workouts, Living Skills

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Parent Education Program

Fine Arts Home Economics

Music, Fine Arts, Cooking, Upholstery, Needle Arts, Oil Painting, Public Speaking

Academics/ GED High School Diploma See page 5

High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE), GED, English Writing and Literature, High School Diploma

ESL

Beginning, Intermediate, Advanced, Multi-Level See page 6

Speaking and Pronunciation, Grammar, Idioms and Conversation, Movie Idioms, Citizenship, CBET

Career Technical Education Rules 1. Parking: Obey all traffic laws, signs and directions.

Use the correct entrances and exits. Park in the correct lots. Do not park in Staff Parking, or in restricted spaces. Obey the speed limit and drive in the correct direction. Park head first.

2. Campus: Keep the campus clean and safe. This is a no smoking site. Don’t litter. Throw away the trash.

Don’t throw gum on the ground.

3. Offices: Do not ask to use office phones. Stay in the classrooms until the end of classes. Tell your transportation when you will be out of the classes.

4. Classrooms: Please follow teacher directions.

No eating or drinking in the classrooms. Don’t chew gum. Keep your cell phones on silent and answer calls outside.

The Career Technical Education Center (CTEC) specializes in Computer related training for the workplace and home.

The CTEC has classes ranging from Medical Terminology and Medical Billing and Coding to Basic Computer Upgrade, Typing, Microsoft Office 2007, Digital Camera, Bookkeeping/Accounting, Japanese, Chinese, and Korean classes, QuickBooks, Windows and many other courses. Our classes are designed to meet the needs of students who have never used a computer, have basic computer skills, or those students who are in advanced skills modes.

5. Restrooms: Do not write graffiti on the walls.

ABC Adult School Mission Statement The mission of the ABC Adult School is to provide meaningful educational opportunities that encourage lifelong learning and improve the quality of life.

Expected Schoolwide Learning Results (ESLRs) ABC Adult School students will be: Self-directed lifelong learners who ➜ acquire knowledge and skills appropriate to their stage

of life ➜ set and achieve personal, educational, and/or vocational goals ➜ seek continuing educational, and/or vocational training opportunities

Classes are held Monday through Thursday 8 am to 9:30 pm, Friday 8 am to 4 pm. The CTEC Office is open Monday through Thursday 7:30 am to 8 pm, Friday 7:30 am to 4 pm.

Registration is available for classes in person at the CTEC office, room G4 or online via our www.abcadultschool.com web site. Most classes are $15 and some classes will require a purchased textbook. Other classes will cost from $25 to $140 dependent on the curriculum.

The CTEC is also an Authorized Testing Center for Microsoft Office Specialist program offered by Microsoft Corporation. Tests are available by appointment at a cost of $85 per exam.

Career Technical Education Center (CTEC) 12254 Cuesta Dr. Cerritos, CA 90703 (562) 926-6734, ext 25101 and ext 25109

Effective communicators who ➜ demonstrate appropriate listening, speaking, reading,

writing, creative, and/or computational skills ➜ apply communication skills to real-life situations at

home, in the community, and at work ➜ enhance and improve their ability to understand others

and to be understood by others

Critical thinkers and problem-solvers who ➜ exercise their powers of judgment, conception, and

inference to solve problems and create projects ➜ seek to understand and solve problems at school, work,

home, and in the community ➜ apply acquired knowledge to real-life settings

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Consumer Awareness Health and Safety We offer a wide variety of health and fitness classes for all adults. For the senior citizens, there are specific classes, including Aqua Cardio Fitness, Chair Aerobics, Individual Workouts and all levels of Aerobics.

For all adults, we offer various aerobic workouts, Aqua Cardio Fitness, Power Walking, Kickboxing, Yoga, and Tai Chi Chuan.

There are dance fitness classes, including Dancersize, Hula, and Line Dancing.

Home Economics Fine Arts

A wide variety of home and fine arts are offered. We have many different traditional painting and drawing classes.

Needle Arts

We offer Brazilian embroidery, silk ribbon embroidery, and Bobbin Lace.

Stained glass, ceramics, beading, and crafts are

Focus on Health workshops are offered periodically.

popular classes.

A student can take a basic sewing class, pattern drafting or quilting. For the new computerized embroidery/sewing

Older Adults Older Adults classes at ABC Adult School are designed specifically for the senior population we serve in our communities.

Courses are designed to offer adults lifelong education that will provide opportunities for personal growth and development, community involvement, and skills needed for self-maintenance. These classes provide intellectual, physical, and social stimulation regardless of ability or circumstance, such as joy of singing, piano, percussion, life stories, computer enrichment, and physical fitness.

machines, we have classes to train the student to fully utilize the capabilities of the machine and to use the internet to find patterns.

Music

With six music teachers, we have a full range of classes, including singing, piano, guitar, ukulele, and recorder.

Culinary Arts

Our cooking classes cover everything from basic nutrition and food preparation to cake decorating, pastry and sugar arts.

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The upholstery program is world-class with the tools and space required. Basic woodworking is also offered.

Other classes include public speaking, cultural studies, a class to help seniors (over 55) write their life stories, Feng Shui, and computer enrichment for seniors.

With many of our teachers bilingual, they can teach in Korean, Chinese, and Spanish in addition to English.

Parent Education Program The parent education program provides Parent Participation Classes at five parent education centers at various locations throughout the school district. Serving parents with children ages six-months to five years of age.

Parents, guardians or caregivers attend class with the child.

Classes are designed to enable parents to observe and participate with their child in a learning environment that stimulates the physical, intellectual, social and emotional growth of the child.

Gahr (Cecilia Damron) Parent Education Center 11111 Artesia Blvd., Cerritos, CA 90703 (562) 926-6734 ext 21415

Academic Program Basic Education  Reading Improvement  Basic Language Arts  General Math Review

GED Preparation  Reading Comprehension

Burbank Parent Education Center

 Essay Writing

17701 Roseton Ave., Artesia, CA 90701 (562) 229-7939

 Mathematics

Stowers Parent Education Center 13350 Beach St., Cerritos, CA 90703 (562) 926-7411

Passage of the GED exam is considered the equivalent of a high school diploma to most colleges and employers.

Gonsalves Parent Education Center 13650 Park St., Cerritos, CA 90703 (562) 926-5777

Cabrillo Lane Parent Education Center 20122 Cabrillo Ln., Cerritos, CA 90703 (562) 926-6734 ext 25161

High School Diploma Subjects  Algebra

 Health

 Art Appreciation

 Life Science

 Economics

 Mathematics

 Electives

 Physical & Earth Science

 English

 United States History

 Government

 World Cultures and History

A total of 180 semester credits and passage of the California High School Exit Exam (CAHSEE) is required for a high school diploma.

Academic students must meet with a counselor to enroll.

Coursework may be completed in a lab setting, as a homework program, or in structured classrooms.

Morning, afternoon, and evening programs are available.

Parent Leadership Academy Parents are welcome to attend monthly Parent Education Workshops on topics of interest to parents of children from kindergarten through high school.  Tackling the Homework Dilemma  What You Should Know About Nutrition & Children  O verview of 6th Grade Family Life and Sex Education Program  Accessing Student Information Using the Internet  Can You Hear Me Now?  Standardized Tests and Test Taking Tips  How to Maximize Success in My Gate Student  Surviving the Adolescent Years  Internet Safety

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English as a Second Language (ESL) The mission of the ABC Adult School is to provide meaningful educational opportunities that encourage lifelong learning and improve the quality of life.

What does this mean to the students?

The mission is the important work we do.

Provide meaningful educational opportunities means we give students lessons that are important to them.

Encourage lifelong learning means Adult School students can continue learning every day of their lives.

Improve the quality of life means students’ lives can be better, happier, and richer.

ESL Offices Cuesta Campus: 12254 Cuesta Drive, Cerritos, (562) 926-6734 ext 25015 Fedde Campus: 11949 East 215th St. Hawaiian Gardens, (562)926-6734 ext 24681

The ABC Adult School ESL classes are a Program.

What does this mean to the students?

A Program means that the Skills classes and Level classes are all together, from the Beginning to the Intermediate and to the Advanced. Students start in a class and advance to the next class. All the classes have the same types of lessons, for health, shopping, working and home. The teachers teach with the same types of practice using partners, table groups, and the whole class.

The teachers have the same ideas about the ESL Program. We are all proud of our ESL Program.

In the morning, at 8 and 9 am, students take Skills classes with different teachers, Listening, Speaking, Reading, Writing, and Grammar. Then, after the break, students take Level classes to learn how to use English in their lives everyday.

In the afternoon and evening classes students learn and practice the same skills as the morning classes with their classmates and teachers.

ESL Level Classes  Beginning Literacy  Beginning  Intermediate  Advanced

Specialized Skill Classes  Speaking  Conversation  Pronunciation  Idioms  Movie Idioms  Writing  Grammar

Citizenship Classes The Language Media Center is for students to practice the same Skills individually, using many books, videos, audio lessons, and computers. They can also have conversations with volunteers from the community. This classroom is open from 8 in the morning until 7 in the evening.

CBET (Community Based

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Language Media Center

English Tutoring)

Distance Learning (Learn English at Home) Cultural Field Trips

ABC Adult School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (562) 926-6734

Community Resources Bus Passes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (562) 916-1202 Child Abuse and Neglect Hotline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (800) 540-4000 Child Care Information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (800) 424-2246 Community Services and Resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211 Elder Abuse Hotline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (877) 477-3646 Food Stamps . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (562) 807-7869 Health Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (888) 747-1222 Housing Advice and Counseling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (800) 569-4287 Human Services 24-hour info line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (800) 339-6993 Immigration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (800) 755-0777 Legal Aid Foundation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (562) 435-3501 Meals on Wheels . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (562) 806-5400 Medi-Cal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (877) 597-4777 National Domestic Violence Hotline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (800) 799-7233 (562) 402-4800 Senior Citizen Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (800) 677-1116 Suicide Prevention Hotline . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (877) 727-4747 WIC Nutrition Program . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (888) 942-9675 Youth and Family Counseling . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . (562) 924-5526

Health & Safety 911 - for life/safety emergency only!

Local Police/Sheriff: _______________________ (non-emergency) Local Fire Department: ____________________ (non-emergency)

General Information Custodians We expect that students will cooperate and help to keep the school clean. What does this mean to students? Students clean up their tables in the classrooms. Students throw away trash after they eat, and keep all areas of the school clean.

Security We expect that students will respect other students in classrooms, in public places and in the parking lots.

Our Security Intervention Agents watch our school carefully to keep this school safe. What does this mean to students? Students do not make or have trouble. They obey the rules.

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1. ABCUSD Central Offices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16700 Norwalk Blvd., Cerritos 2. AEC Cuesta . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12254 Cuesta Dr., Cerritos 3. Artesia Christian Home . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11614 183rd St., Artesia 4. Artesia Community Center . . . . . . . . . . . .18750 Clarkdale Ave., Artesia 5. Artesia High School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12108 Del Amo, Lakewood 6. Burbank Elementary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17701 Roseton Ave., Artesia 7. Cabrillo Lane Education Center . . . 20122 Cabrillo Lane, Cerritos 8. Carver Elementary School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19200 Ely St., Cerritos 9. Carmenita Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13435 166th St., Cerritos 10. Cerritos Senior Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12340 South St., Cerritos 11. Cerritos Park East . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13234 166th St., Cerritos 12. Clontarf Manor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18432 Gridley Rd., Cerritos 13. Damron Parent Education Center

(Damron PEC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11111 Artesia Blvd., Cerritos 14. Elliott Elementary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18415 Cortner Ave., Artesia 15. Faye Ross Middle School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17707 Elaine Ave., Artesia 16. Fedde Adult Education Center

(Fedde AEC) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11949 215th St., Hawaiian Gardens

17. Furgeson Elementary . . . . . . . . . 22215 Elaine Ave., Hawaiian Gardens 18. Gonsalves Elementary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13650 Park St., Cerritos 19. Hawaiian Elementary . . . . . . . . . . 12350 E. 226th St., Hawaiian Gardens 20. Helen Rosas Center . . . . . . . . . . 22150 Wardham St., Hawaiian Gardens 21. Juarez Elementary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11939 Aclare St., Cerritos 22. Kennedy Elementary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17500 Belshire Ave., Cerritos 23. Melbourne Elementary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21314 Claretta St., Lakewood 24. Niemes Elementary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16715 S. Jersey Ave., Artesia 25. North Artesia Community Center . . . . . . . . . 11870 E. 169th St., Artesia 26. Pat Nixon Park . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12340 South St., Cerritos 27. Robert Lee

Community Center . . . . . . . . . 21815 Pioneer Blvd., Hawaiian Gardens 28. Stowers Elementary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13350 Beach St., Cerritos 29. Tracy High School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12222 Cuesta Dr., Cerritos 30. Twin Palms Care Center . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11900 Artesia Blvd., Artesia 31. Willow Elementary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11733 E. 205th St., Lakewood 32. Wittman Elementary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16801 Yvette St., Cerritos 33. St. John Lutheran Church . . . . . . . . 18422 S. Bloomfield Ave., Cerritos