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COABE has partnered with Google to offer skills-building opportunities for COABE teachers, administrators, and adult learners.
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Certificate Programs

COABE’s multi-year partnership with Google continues to help learners access high demand jobs with a medium earning wage of $76,000! Through this partnership we are able to offer the following badges and credentials completely free to our members:

Digital Marketing

IT Support

IT Automation with Python

Cyber
Security

Project Management

Data
Analytics

Advanced Data Analytics

UX Design

AI Training

Business Intelligence

Applied Digital Skills: Practical Technology Skills for New Online Learners

Get started with Applied Digital Skills

Learn job-ready skills from anywhere with free, video-based lessons on how to set up a Gmail account, build a resume, use the Google work applications, and much more.

Career Readiness for Reentry
Economic opportunity should be available to everyone. For the more than 600,000 people who leave prison every year in the U.S., finding a job is a top priority — and a challenge, especially when a lack of digital skills makes it difficult to compete. With our Curriculum Guide, previously incarcerated individuals can gain practical digital skills and focus on career readiness for today’s job market. 

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Heather Engelhart  |  Google Scholar Mentor & Instructor

Heather Engelhart is currently an Adult Education Adjunct Instructor at Waubonsee Community College in Aurora, Illinois. She has 24+ years of experience in education. This includes areas of instruction, training, curriculum development, implementation of new programs, as well as mentoring. Heather began teaching at the primary level of public education where she received her master’s degree in Teaching and Curriculum. For the past 8 years, Heather has been an instructor in the Adult Ed program where she has taught a variety of classes including ELA, Microsoft Office ICAPs, ABE and ASE for math and language arts instruction. Heather has collaborated with colleagues in curriculum writing, she co-created a Technology Bootcamp to inboard new students, presented professional development opportunities for new technology and trained new teachers.

The past three years, Heather has been teaching in a Flex Classroom. This gives her the opportunity to learn and understand how this modality can benefit the students’ varying learning styles and increase retention.

 

In addition to her work in the classroom, Heather has also earned a certification for ABE/ASE Language Arts Specialist and a Certificate in Effective College Instruction through ACUE. She has also had the honor of receiving Outstanding Adjunct Faculty Member from Waubonsee Community College in 2022.

Contact her at Google@coabe.org

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Success Stories

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Hassan Maleki

Hassan found a passion for lifelong learning, and became inspired to dream of opening a company that helps others achieve success in the business world.

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Yeli Romero

Yeli has the tools to launch the marketing business she and her husband have always dreamed of now that she has received a certificate in Project Management and Digital Social Media. 

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Hannah Ingram

As an adult education coordinator, Hannah is using her new Data Analytics certification to encourage adult education students everywhere that a promising career with sufficient pay is only six months away! 

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Shantee Hayden

Shantee’s completion of her Project Management certificate has inspired her to enroll in an undergraduate program, and she hopes to complete her master’s degree in business to create a corporation that helps homeless individuals to continue their education.

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Ron Dake

At 50 years old, Ron’s completion of his certificate has shown him that he is capable of much more than he knew, and he is now driven to start his own technology business.

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Michelle de Castro Carneiro

Michelle’s Data Analytics certificate has paved the way to her becoming a senior data analyst at a well-established global data analysis company.

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Hillary Stackpole

Receiving a certificate in Project Management showed Hillary that enrolling in a four-year undergraduate program was not only a dream, it could be her reality. 

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Nadezhda Sherova

A mother of three, Nadezhda felt she was given a second chance to launch a brand new career path with an exciting skill set in Project Management.

"I currently have a degree in social work but this has helped me with the technical knowledge and understanding I feel was needed to assess and implement the correct programs for our community."

"In my current career, adult Ed., we are working on adding a digital literacy program that I will be teaching. The experience with Google with help my understanding of the NorthStar program I will be using, and possibilities of what students can do beyond our introductory classes."

"I have been a stay home mom for more than a decade.  This course has given me the confidence to pursue more challenging opportunities in the future. 

Thank you for the opportunity to learn the skills needed for a job in today’s economy."

"With this training I am able to equip other educators in my network about AI and help directors make decisions about best uses for it across our US based Adult Education programming."

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