{"id":2838,"date":"2014-05-08T11:10:10","date_gmt":"2014-05-08T18:10:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/?p=2838"},"modified":"2014-05-08T11:10:10","modified_gmt":"2014-05-08T18:10:10","slug":"jefferson-adult-school-esl-students-visit-skyline-college","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/jefferson-adult-school-esl-students-visit-skyline-college\/","title":{"rendered":"Jefferson Adult School ESL Students Visit Skyline College"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/image.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-2842\" alt=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/image-800x597.jpeg\" width=\"625\" height=\"466\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nOn Thursday, May 8, ESL students from Jefferson Adult School visited the ELI for a campus field trip.\u00a0 For many, this was the first time that any of these students had been on a college campus.\u00a0 Although they may be months or more from their decision to attend, their ESL teacher Francisca Wentworth was committed to instilling a vision of a college pathway to careers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our students need to be able to see what is possible for them, and visiting the college is the best way to do that,&#8221; said Wentworth.<\/p>\n<p><a style=\"color: #0f3647;line-height: 24px\" href=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/image2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-2843 alignright\" alt=\"image2\" src=\"http:\/\/skylinecollege.edu\/skylineshines\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2014\/05\/image2-800x597.jpeg\" width=\"263\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This field trip was the culmination of several activities planned through a Silicon Valley Foundation grant written specifically to create more pathways between Jefferson Adult ESL and Skyline College ESOL.\u00a0 Events preceding this field trip have included a faculty textbook retreat and discussion, faculty class visits, and a series of workshops conducted by counselor Lavinia Zanassi and ESOL faculty Leigh Anne Shaw.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Rico met the students and brought them to the Career Services Center, where Lavinia Zanassi presented information on careers.\u00a0 Florentino Ubungen met the students there and took them on a comprehensive tour of Skyline, featuring many of the CTE programs.\u00a0 The students finished at the ELI for a Q &amp; A session before departing the campus.<\/p>\n<p>The students were excited at the idea of someday joining their former classmates who have moved from Adult School into Skyline ESOL classes.\u00a0 It was an incredibly inspiring day for students who previously had never considered a college education as part of their immediate future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">Article by Leigh Anne Shaw<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Thursday, May 8, ESL students from Jefferson Adult School visited the ELI for a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}