Our Team
Meet the group of dedicated individuals powering GOAL
Our Board Members
Our working group brings together representatives from Cabrillo College, the Workforce Development Board, and our school districts. Each representative provides an area of expertise to help align our partners around specific goals, such as building career pathways for our community. Our working groups help the GOAL consortium continue to create and meet goals that realistically serve the needs of adult learners in our community.
Dr. Faris Sabbah
Superintendent
Santa Cruz County Office of Education
Kris Munro
Superintendent
Santa Cruz City Schools
Dr. Heather Contreras
Superintendent
Pajaro Valley Unified School District
Dr. Matthew Wetstein
President
Cabrillo College
Andy Stone
Workforce Development Board Director
GOAL Staff
Carena Dewis
Linda Bernabe
GOAL Director,
Cabrillo College GOAL
Our Steering Committee represents the educational and community organizations that help support and guide the efforts of GOAL in coordinating, expanding, and improving adult education in Santa Cruz County.
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Improving adult education in Santa Cruz County takes time, dedication and a heart for the adult learner. We’re so thankful to have these essential groups of educational advocates leading GOAL. Together we learn, collaborate, make decisions and do the work to improve adult education in Santa Cruz County.
1. ESL: Aligning course curriculum with Adult Education to Cabrillo’s non-credit courses or credit English as a Second Language courses.
2. Data Research Outcomes: Designing and implementing a tracking system to record the progress of students
3. Marketing: Building a brand for the consortia, as well as ways at looking to build regional marketing
4. CTE/ Apprenticeship: Developing pathways from Adult Education CTE classes to Cabrillo College and/or to employment
5. ABE/ASE: Looking at ways to develop and increase availability to take the GED. Identifying ways to build programs back into sections of the county that haven’t had support
6. Parents: Setting up parameters given to the group for current parent programs