The Rockland Regional Adult Learning Center is a basic adult education grant program sponsored by the Rockland Public Schools and funded by the Adult and Community Learning Services division of the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education and the South Coastal Workforce Investment Board.
Adult students and teachers will hold high standards and expectations for lifelong learning;
Adult students, teachers, administrators, and staff will understand and use a variety of strategies to enhance learning in the classroom;
Students and teachers will use assessment as a process and a tool to guide instruction, provide evidence of student progress, and aid students to become self directed;
Curriculum, instruction, and assessment will be based on inquiry which involves investigation, critical thinking, problem solving, reflection and the application of this process to the students' life situations;
Curriculum, instruction, and assessment will point to connections within and across disciplines - they link education to family, community, and work;
Classroom approaches will draw from and are applied to students' life experiences;
Collaboration, cooperation, and partnerships among and between students, their families, learning providers, the workplace and the community will be made essential components of adult education;
The adult learning community will support diversity by recognizing that all students in a single learning environment do not have the same backgrounds, needs, and goals.
Administration
Valerie Mulready - Director
Kelly Mitchel - Assistant Director
Kathy Hoffman - Data Specialist
Carla Dunn - Administrative Assistant
Kirsten Bartoloni - Portfolio
Mary Scopelleti-Howe - Math
Mal Lannin-Cotton - English / Literature
Meghan Casagrande - Reading / Civics
Nick DiRenzo - Biology / Topics in Science
Ryan Austin - Civics
Julia Driscoll - ESOL
Digna Nunez - ESOL
Christiane Martinho - ESOL