Gray-New Gloucester Adult & Community Education offers a wide range of highly interactive courses that you can take entirely over the Internet. All of our courses include expert instructors, many of whom are nationally known authors. Our online courses are affordable, fun, fast, convenient, and geared just for you.

Explore our catalog at https://www.ed2go.com/gngadulted/

Note: courses are not free

Gray-New Gloucester Adult Education also offers students the opportunity to work at home, at your own pace with HiSET Academy. Students can work on reading, writing, science, social studies and math to improve their skills. Using a combination of Zoom for direct instruction and HiSET Academy, students can prepare for all 5 subjects in the comfort of their own home. This option is available to students working toward a high school credential and/or preparing for college.

Students must complete the enrollment process to be eligible for these courses.

To find out more call 657-9612.

Our HiSET preparation learning labs are designed to help students preparing to take the HiSET in math, reading, writing, science or social studies.

Winter/Spring 2025 Schedule:

Mondays - 4pm to 7pm

Tuesdays - 1pm to 4pm

Wednesdays - 4pm to 7pm

Thursdays - 10am to 1pm

Students enrolled in this course will develop basic, everyday reading and writing skills in a relaxed, comfortable environment. This is a great course, designed to help brush up on communication skills, formatting for letters, reading texts for information and prepare for the HiSET. Students will learn about different types of text, author meaning, grammar, punctuation, and sentence structure. Join this class now to prepare for your future.

Mondays: 4pm to 7pm

Thursdays: 10am to 1pm

In this reading and writing course, students will strengthen their understanding of the interconnected relationship between reading and writing for academic purposes. Students will apply their comprehension of paragraph and essay structure to analyze and produce narrative, compare and contrast, cause and effect, and persuasive writing. Students will gain digital literacy skills through working with online learning technology. At the completion of this course, students’ work will be analyzed to determine readiness for ENGL 080 or ENGL 100.

English 040

Instructor: Alexandra Requena

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1/21 - 5/10

Time: 5:00 - 7:00 pm

English 080

Instructor: Anna Patkus

Tuesdays & Thursdays, 1/21 - 5/10

Time: 2:00 - 4:00 pm

Location: SMCC / Online via Brightspace and Zoom

Fee: Free, but must pre-register

Ready for a new job or a career change? Join us for one, two, or all three workshops. March 5: Job Search Strategies; March 12: Resume Strategies; March 19: Interview Strategies. 

Instructor: Lisa Sweet, New Ventures Maine

This course will focus on the essential skills of a successful college student which will include study skills, time management, decision-making strategies, financial literacy, career pathways exploration, and building the writing skills necessary for academic readiness.

This free course is offered through Cumberland County Adult Education.

This class fulfills a required college graduation credit at both Central and Southern Maine Community Colleges. 

Mandatory in-person classes on 3/10 and 4/28, 5pm to 8pm

The Financial Aid Workshop hosted by the TRIO Maine Educational Opportunity Center (MEOC) will provide an overview of the financial aid process and the completion of the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid). (Please note: to file the FAFSA, participants must have created an FSA ID no later than one week prior to the workshop.  FSA IDs may be created online at https://studentaid.gov/fsa-id/create-account/launch.).

Please bring a copy of your 2023 federal tax return (if applicable) to aid with the filing of your FAFSA if you hope to start college in the fall of 2025. 

Due to grant constraints, participants must be adults hoping to enter post-secondary education.

The class is FREE but pre-registration is REQUIRED.