Deer Isle Adult and Community Education

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43 School St
Suite 1E
Stonington, ME 04681

Mailing Address
PO Box 327
Stonington, ME 04681

207-656-6262

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We offer learning that fits your life to the Deer Isle, Stonington, and greater Blue Hill Peninsula community.

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Fridays 10/24-12/19 Early Childhood Music and Movement

  • FREE Sessions in Stonington (ICC 9-9:45am) and Brooklin (Friend Memorial Library 10:30-11:15am)
  • Just show up! No advance registration required
  • Now running through Friday, December 19th

Tuesdays & Thursdays 1/6-1/22 Intro to Welding 1: Stick Welding 

Friday 1/9 Needle-felting Workshop with Jadyn LaDeau

Monday 1/19 Graphic Novel Reading Group: The Essential Calvin and Hobbes

  • Meeting Third Mondays. Read and discuss a new graphic novel every month!

Thursdays 1/22-3/26 La Mesa Turquesa Spanish Conversation Club

(Waitlist) Mon-Thurs 1/26-4/2 Free: Basics of Residential Construction

  • This class is now full, but we are taking waitlist reservations.

Tues 2/3 Sea Shanty Workshop

  • With Bagaduce Music’s Bennett Konesni

Ongoing:

Open Session Shop Pass

Single Shop Session: By Donation

FAME Personal Finance Webinars

  • Check back soon for 2026 schedule

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Check out our Adult Education classes, including High School Completion (prep for HiSET, formerly the GED, or diploma credentials), College/Career Counseling, and workforce training (business and technical skills).

Or participate in Community Programming, a life-enriching suite of classes encompassing multimedia crafts, industrial arts (shop skills), English and Language Arts, outdoor recreation, health & wellness,  technology, personal finance, and more.

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Learning Vital Kayak Skills for Our Working Waters

WOW! We can’t believe what a great class we had last Sunday for Sea Kayak Skills: Navigating the Working Waterfront. Six students joined us on t…
WOW! We can’t believe what a great class we had last Sunday for Sea Kayak Skills: Navigating the Working Waterfront. Six students joined us on this beautiful fall day to learn the safety skills and etiquette for kayaking in working waters.
We’re grateful for top-tier instruction and hosting from Osprey’s Echo Sea Kayaking and super helpful insights from our guest speaker, fisherman and boat builder Dwight Staples.
This class benefited from a unique learning environment and addressed a key aspect of our area’s recreational kayaking: sharing the archipelago with commercial vessels.
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Shop Creations

Check out Fay’s glorious greenhouse!   Using an Open Session Shop Pass, she worked with our industrial arts instructor Eric to build this from re…
Check out Fay’s glorious greenhouse!
 
Using an Open Session Shop Pass, she worked with our industrial arts instructor Eric to build this from reclaimed materials and completed the stunning paint work herself.
 
Have you got your own DIY project in mind? Our new registration portal is live! Sign up here for shop passes or specific project sessions, including floating shelves, bookshelves, cutting boards, and picture frames.
 
New classes will be added regularly. The adult education fall semester starts September 9th.
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Community Learning

At DIACE, we’re all about creative community learning! Island Fellow and DIACE marketing support Grace loved this great example at the Causeway …

At DIACE, we’re all about creative community learning! Island Fellow and DIACE marketing support Grace loved this great example at the Causeway Beach. Some of our other favorites include Island Heritage Trust‘s incredible signage and exhibits like Deer Isle Granite Museum‘s latest display or the Discovery Wharf at Maine Center for Coastal Fisheries.

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Meet our Staff

What a fantastic first week of the fall semester! We wanted to re-introduce ourselves now that you’ll be seeing more of our faces, so we headed …
What a fantastic first week of the fall semester! We wanted to re-introduce ourselves now that you’ll be seeing more of our faces, so we headed down to The Stonington Farmers’ Market in our backyard to find a photographer. Thanks to Healthy Island Project Director RenĂ© and her new pup, Sylvie, for this great staff photo!
Just another serendipitous island meeting. Did you know we’ve been offering tech support at HIP Senior Coffee Hours on behalf of the Island Connectivity Hub?
Without further ado, we’ve got on staff:
Morgan Witham, Director and Teacher/Advisor
Eric Beachy, Industrial Arts Instructor
Grace Upham (new this year!), Island Institute Fellow and Marketing/Community Programming Support
Unfortunately, Sylvie isn’t a coworker, but we are a dog-friendly space!
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First Day of Adult Ed

9/9 is Adult Ed’s first day of school! And hey, we’re in the paper! Check out this ad we printed in the Penobscot Bay Press. We love PBP, a great comm…

9/9 is Adult Ed’s first day of school! And hey, we’re in the paper! Check out this ad we printed in the Penobscot Bay Press. We love PBP, a great community learning resource. 

Want to take a class? It’s not too late to sign up. We have two that start today: Living with ADHD and Floating Shelves Shop Topic: deerisle.maineadulted.org 

Meanwhile, Morgan and Grace were both excited to see the front page news story about Island Institute’s new Climate of Change film. Grace is currently the Deer Isle-Stonington Island Institute Fellow and, fun fact, Morgan was the first Fellow on Isle au Haut! 

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Start Signing Up for Classes! Registrations are LIVE

Click HERE to view and register for classes! When I (Grace) asked Morgan to pose enthusiastically for this announcement, she immediately jumped up and…
Click HERE to view and register for classes!

When I (Grace) asked Morgan to pose enthusiastically for this announcement, she immediately jumped up and turned on her beloved Promethean Board to model some math. She can’t wait to welcome new and returning HiSET (high school completion) and diploma students for friendly math instruction and more. She also provides College and Career Counselling.

We’ve also got industrial arts (shop) classes, including specific subjects and open sessions for tools and support with DIY projects, a Living with ADHD Class, multi-media First Friday Art Classes, financial planning webinars, and much more in the works.
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