Meet the Staff
Susan Brennan
Program Director
This is Sue’s 5th year as our adult education director. With a 100% part-time staff, each staff member wears multiple hats to provide programming. We offer live, 100% online, and/or live online options for classes. The past 4 years have been spent getting all the programs we offer up and running.
These programs include:
College – Go to college, prepare for college, succeed in college, and find tutoring for college classes.
Career – Explore careers to find the right one for you and look for training and the way to pay for them.
Computer – We offer the Northstar Digital Literacy Certifications as well as free digital literacy classes from devices to social media to programs used today. These are taught by competent staff from the National Digital Equity Center. Your dollars
at work supporting this non-profit organization.
Community – The lingo in the AE world would call these “Enrichment” classes. This is an area that needs growth and we ask the community to help with ideas leads for folks to teach a class or teach one yourself.
Diploma-What Adult Ed is best known for, we assist students in earning their HiSET (formerly GED) diploma.
Multilingual Learning – ELL, ESOL, ESL…the new and hopefully final term is ML for our New Mainers. Adult Education is the primary provider for acquiring the English language. This is a growing area for us as we work with K-12 to provide services to all speakers of other languages who live and work in RSU 3.
Workforce Training – is the middleman for many online certificate programs taught by other educators like The Academy of Medical Professions. This is another area with growth potential. Right now we offer CPR twice a year for personal and work requirements.
I live in Monmouth and have 10 grandchildren, 8 of whom live close.
I love being outdoors, scouting out thrift shops, and working – not in that order 🙂
Angel L. Frost
Program Assistant/Secretary
I just started working with RSU 3 Adult and Community Education. I live in Liberty, with my husband, our daughter, and our 4-legged fur baby. Family time is the best time, as you never know what can happen the next day. I just found my new favorite hobby making bread (keep in on our website there might be a class!). In the summertime, I enjoy camping and paddle boarding. During the Fall in November, you can normally find me in the woods hunting, and during the winter I am bound unless I need to go out, as the cold weather is not my friend. I am going to EMCC for my Medical Assistant Associate in Applied Science. I have a two-year degree in Medical Administrative Assistant. I plan on finishing college and staying around here to be able to provide local medical classes if possible.
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Never Stop Learning no matter what generation you are!
Deb Avalone-King
Instructor/Advisor
Greetings from Deb Avalone-King serving the RSU 3 Adult Ed Program as an Instructor/Advisor. My new hobby is droning, it provides an entirely new perspective of the world around us. It’s a new challenge to learn this new skill and keeps life interesting. My time here in the District began in 2012 when I retired from 30 years working in public service for the Maine DEP doing Education Outreach. I love science which drew me to adult education. My education culminated in 1991 by earning a Masters Degree in Science Education from UMaine, Orono. I’ve been pleased to contribute to our Program here, teaching a variety of other classes as well as science. It can be rewarding to get to know and support students who are pursuing the HiSet option for earning a high school diploma certificate. As an Advisor here, it is also a pleasure to support our students as they identify career and college goals for their future. Please check out our growing types of Community class offerings and keep life interesting!