Learn how to get your YouTube video on the first page of Google Search. Just like Facebook, YouTube is a social network that needs to be set-up, optimized, and used regularly to be effective. Your patters of behavior on YouTube may be working against you. Learn how YouTube can compliment your current marketing and social media strategy and how to maximize your YouTube Channel to get the greatest return.

Are you ready to find more customers and grow your business? In this hands-on workshop, you’ll learn how to quickly generate, test, and implement innovative ideas that address your unique business challenges. Ensuring you stay ahead in today's competitive market, you’ll learn proven strategies that help successful businesses thrive and avoid the pitfalls that cause 42% of small businesses to fail because they solve the wrong problem for their customers. 

Session 1 kicks off with a case study where you’ll solve a real-world challenge for a small business. Through an interactive and participatory, step-by-step process you’ll learn how to apply it to your own business.

In Session 2 the focus is on your business, guiding you to uncover new ways to attract customers, increase loyalty, and stand out from the competition. Whether you're just starting out or looking to expand, you’ll leave with practical, no-nonsense strategies you can start using right away to grow your business and avoid common mistakes. 

Instructor: Justine Bassett, MS

Justine Bassett is an experienced leader who helps businesses and organizations advance their goals with a mix of strategy, creativity, and design. She has led innovative transformations in multiple organizations such as the University of New England (UNE) and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History. Her business experience includes international work for large companies including MCI, Motorola and Bath Iron Works and has been a business leader at multiple small businesses and start-ups. Her business, Dynamic Foresight, provides business and strategy consulting and training to business leaders and organizations. Her work has been profiled in the Boston Globe, Downeast Magazine and Maine Magazine. In 2022, she was honored as one of Maine Magazine's “Mainers of the Year.”

Learn to be a successful substitute! Discover the basic responsibilities, such as process, duties, school and classroom orientation, interpreting and implementing plans, health and safety information, professionalism, and legal and ethical considerations. Explore working in the educational community, including behavioral and classroom management tips, and age-appropriate teaching strategies. Successful completion of this class will enable participants to be reimbursed by the school district for fingerprinting and CHRC certifications (total of $70) after you have subbed for three days.

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During this session, you will learn how to navigate multiple worksheets, save your workbook, create formulas, use functions, change the layout of your worksheet, and how to create practical worksheets. 1040 Income Tax – Maintain tax information that is very useful when preparing your annual tax return. 

 Some examples of using Microsoft Excel as a Practical Tool:

Grocery Shopping List – Quickly create a weekly grocery shopping list. What a time saver! 

Contractor Estimate Calculator - Great tool for any contractor who has to provide estimates for customers. 

Household Budget – Create a monthly budget of your household expenditures. 

This is a live online class using ZOOM.

Microsoft Excel Intermediate  During this session, you will learn how to navigate multiple worksheets, save your workbook, create formulas, use functions, change the layout of your worksheet, and how to create practical worksheets. 1040 Income Tax – Maintain tax information that is very useful when preparing your annual tax return. The design of this course includes 2-3 hours of work with the software between sessions to gain maximum benefit from the sessions.

Some examples of using Microsoft Excel as a Practical Tool:

Grocery Shopping List – Quickly create a weekly grocery shopping list. What a time saver! 

Contractor Estimate Calculator - Great tool for any contractor who has to provide estimates for customers. 

Household Budget – Create a monthly budget of your household expenditures. 

This is a live online class using ZOOM. 

Please take a few minutes to complete the survey included in your automated receipt so the instructor can tailor the course to meet your needs. 

You will want to have Microsoft Excel on your computer for this workshop and many people find it helpful to have two monitors though it is certainly not necessary to benefit from the sessions.  There are two ways to accomplish this: 1) attach an external screen to your computer (contact our program if you need technical assistance with that); 2) use two computers (one for Excel and the other for the ZOOM meeting. 

Val is a lifelong business educator and academic advisor focused on helping enrich and enhance students' educational and life purposes. He is experienced in college management and, as an adult educator, having taught at the Mid-State College and Kennebec Valley Community College. His teaching experience covers over 45 years in the areas of computer applications, accounting, and Quickbooks training workshops.

In this one-hour Zoom session, women* and underrepresented workers can explore high-wage careers in the construction trades as well as low-cost or no-cost training programs and job opportunities!

*people who identify as women or as gender-expansive, gender-nonconforming, or non-binary

Take advantage of this one-hour Zoom session designed for women* and underrepresented workers interested in exploring careers within the forestry trades! *people who identify as women or as gender-expansive, gender-nonconforming, or non-binary

This is an online course.  This class can be taken anytime anywhere.    All classes are pre-recorded for you to take at your own pace.

Registration for this class is free, meaning there is no fee to sign up for the course.  However, once registered, there is a cost of $3,950 or $5,150 to enroll in the class.  Your registration doesn't secure your spot in the class.  Your registration details are necessary for SCAE to forward to American Medical Professions. Payments go directly to American Medical Professions.  They offer multiple payment methods.  

All Medical Coding Programs Offered

     $3,950 Medical Coding (CPC-A Certification) (20 - Weeks)

     $5,150 Medical Coding w/Practicode (CPC Certification) (20 - Weeks)

After signing up for the class, you'll receive a packet to fill out and send directly to American Medical Professions.  Once you have filled out the paperwork and the requested information, Academy of Medical Professions will contact you to complete your registration process.

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This 20-week, in-depth medical coding for CPC certification through AAPC.  This program is designed to teach all aspects of medical coding, providing you with the skills needed to become nationally certified and to get into the job market as a Certified Professional Coder.  This certificate program includes Medical Terminology, Anatomy and Physiology, 2 CPC-A exam attempts, AAPC membership, 3 practice CPC tests, and all books. Basic computer skills are required. $3,950; Adding Practicode (6 - 10 - week online program) will remove the apprenticeship designation from the CPC Credential; $5,150.  Payment plans available.

Class of March 13, goes through July 15, 2025

If you have any other questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact SCAE at AdultEd@Sanford.org