News & Announcements
Graduating Class of 2022 Commencement Ceremony
June 29, 2022
It's been a year of hardships, pain, and perhaps sacrifice for you and yours. But nothing stopped you, you kept on looking ahead and rose out of the darkness to this day, your graduation day. Graduation day is not the end of the road, but the beginning of a new adventure. What will the future bring? We don’t know. It may be unknown at this very moment, but it gets clearer at the end of the tunnel. You will find your light and it will bring more days of joy. Never forget what you went through and everything it took you not to quit. Life is not easy. It takes strength and determination to keep moving forward. Find your light, and keep fighting for what you want. Whatever the future brings, take it head first. Never look back.
Congratulations Class of 2022!
Adult Education Teacher Retires After 31 Years of Service
Teaching is a calling so very few respond. A teacher that retires never retires. You might just be turning in your markers, whiteboard, and school badge; but helping students achieve their educational goals will be a part of you forever.
Retirement is not the end of the road, but the beginning of a new beautiful adventure.
Thank you for inspiring a new generation of teachers with your tenacity and willingness to keep learning new tools and techniques to improve our students' quality of education.
Happy Retirement Bernie! Thank you for opening minds, influencing, and making an impact on students for 31 years.
Congratulations Bernie! You deserve it!
Graduating Class of 2021 Commencement Ceremony
July 28, 2021
Congratulations Class of 2021!
The time has come to part ways. You have accomplished a goal so many dreams of. You have obtained your High School Diploma. It did not come easy. It came with hard work, sweat, and the occasional tear.
Your journey is far from over, it is just the beginning of great things to come. Many obstacles will come your way, make sure you persist, move forward, and never look back. Endurance and perseverance will be your forever companions. All that is left to do is move forward wherever life takes you.
“There is no end to education. It is not that you read a book, pass an examination, and finish with education. The whole of life, from the moment you are born to the moment you die, is a process of learning.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Congratulations!
From Jose & Mary
Jose Adorno recognized as the 2021 CAACE Support Staff of the Year
Congratulations Jose A Adorno!
We are proud of you, of your accomplishments, and of the contributions that your years of service represent not only to New Britain Adult Education, but Adult Education throughout the state.
"The best way to inspire people to superior performance is to convince them by everything you do and by your everyday attitude that you are wholeheartedly supporting them." --- Harold S. Geneen.
Below is the nomination that Mr. Fernandes submitted for Mr. Adorno.
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I want to bring to your attention a herculean effort that was exerted by a member of the Adult Education staff. With the realization last spring that we would have to be remote either fully or partially in all classes this fall, a decision was made to develop a Google Suite for Adult Education.
Adult Education is not part of the New Britain K-12 registration program, and our students do not receive email addresses from the District. We needed to develop a way to get our students' email addresses. To get email addresses for our students to participate in our Google Suite, we would have to create them.
As Adult Education transitioned from in-person to remote learning, teachers who were not comfortable with technology had to be guided to accomplishing teaching in a completely different forum. This resulted in many long hours late into the night by Jose Adorno and Mary Segarra, guiding teachers to operate in the Zoom forum effectively.
Jose Adorno, the clerk for Adult Education, did all of this work. Jose spent time watching YouTube videos on how to start a Google Suite for our staff. He applied to Google Suite to get permission to open it and was denied. After multiple phone calls and the Director getting involved with the Google workers over the phone, they finally recognized us as a school. Jose spent the summer organizing our Google Suite. This included developing the classes in Google Classroom, developing email addresses for both staff and students, and being available for students and teachers to access the Google classes for assignments and the Zoom meetings.
Jose has done all this while helping the State Department of Education adopt a new student information management system. It is called LACES, and Jose served on the committee that selected the new system.
While getting all of our Adult Education programs started, Jose has been getting information cleaned up and entered into the new program. The primary issue we faced was that there is no program in place at this time to enter ongoing data for this year since July first. Jose created Google Docs that have allowed teachers to track attendance so when it is time to enter the new data into the new system, we will have the data all organized and accurate.
