Scarborough Adult Education
Maine Adult Education Program
Try Something New This Year
Make this the year you get your high school equivalency (HiSET) credential. Or, get inspired by learning a new skill or hobby. We offer cooking, crafts, and practical courses and seminars so that you can live your best life.
Whatever new skill or life change you’re dreaming of, there’s a good chance your local Maine adult education program can help you get there! Check out a few upcoming classes below:
Apr
30
Beaded Bouquet and Candle-Making Workshop
Join Jenn from Candlewood to make a beautiful fresh spring-scented 12-ounce candle and one gorgeous beaded mini bouquet. You will enjoy a night of fun personalizing your candle, choosing your scents, and crafting a unique bouquet no one will believe was crafted by you! Artificial flowers are handmade using acrylic beads and metal wire. They […]
May
5
Personal Support Specialist (PSS)
This 50 hour course prepares participants to work in home health care or residential settings. Personal care, communication skills, observing, reporting and documentation will be taught. How to provide care safely and deal with emergencies, consumer rights, aging and illness are additional topics that should be covered in the class. CASAS Reading scores of 220 […]
May
6
Sea Glass Windows
Make a sea glass window! You will have sea glass, shells, stones, sand, and driftwood to make a wood-framed 8×10 art piece. Create your own design or use one of the provided templates. You will complete your seaside design in the workshop and will be given a kit and directions to ‘cure’ your piece at […]
May
10
A Walk Through Black Point Cemetery
Black Point Cemetery has roots back to Scarborough’s earliest days, and the grave-markers that have survived there span a 250 year period. Black Point contains the best local collection of rare and unusual hand-carved grave-markers by the Sikes family from the late 1700s. Boston-imported gravestones join locally-made slate markers from the early 1800s. Some mid-century […]
May
10
A Walk Through Dunstan Cemetery
Dunstan Cemetery was established in the 1870s but has a surprising earlier history as a common burial ground. Many families moved graves from their farm-based private cemeteries into Dunstan, often bringing the original early gravestones with them. Dunstan holds a fine collection of early 1800s slate markers from our region’s first stonecutter, Bartlett Adams. Marble […]