VALRC: Regional Instructional Specialist PLC
2025-05-20 12:00 - 13:00 (America/New_York) | Online
This professional learning community is open to Regional Instructional Specialists (and other Virginia adult educators whose work includes instructional leadership). Focused on problem-solving and sharing promising practices, this discussion-based PLC will address topics including classroom observations, retention strategies for learners and educators, curriculum choices, partnerships, and supporting effective instructional practices.

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NEDP Retention via Pre-screening
2025-05-28 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
This practical webinar, part of the Virginia PLC for NEDP practitioners, will be led by state trainer Eileen Rakshys.
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NEDP: Fall Professional Learning Community (for NEDP Advisors & Assessors)
2025-12-08 16:00 - 17:00
This session will focus on using NEDP data to drive program persistence and completion.
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Career Pathways PLC #1: Career Coaching and Supporting Learners for What’s Next
2026-01-30 12:00 - 13:30
Join us for this five-part series on Career Coaching for adult learners. Part I: Celeste Hall from the Virginia Community College System will facilitate sessions one and two, focusing on the theories and strategies that support career coaching. Part II: Sessions three through five will be facilitated by Dr. Barbara Endel and will focus what it means to be an effective career coach, including intervention strategies, career pathways mapping, and establishing sustainable networks to support learners.
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VALRC: Using Technology to Enhance Reading Instruction PLC
2026-02-12 14:30 - 15:30, 2026-02-26 14:30 - 15:30 | Online
SkillBlox is a free platform that contains over 10,000 vetted, high-quality, free and open educational resources you can use to build engaging lessons in a variety of subjects. In this 2-part workshop, we’ll explore a growing set of ready-to-go lessons (“Blox”) that you can easily save, copy, and adapt for use with your learners.
In part 1, you’ll learn the basics of how to explore SkillBlox for Blox created by other users, as well as how you can copy and adapt these Blox by adding activities, contextualizing content for your learning context, and more.
In part 2, participants will come together to showcase their work and share strategies and tips for how they used and adapted lessons from SkillBlox. Participants will also learn how to create custom pages to build lesson sets to share with learners or other instructors.
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Career Pathways PLC #2: Career Coaching and Supporting Learners for What’s Next
2026-02-13 12:00 - 13:30

TABE Assessment Updates and Questions Answered
2026-02-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
This session featuring DRC representative Brian Shedd will provide updates on the TABE 13/14 assessments and address questions submitted by Virginia educators. Please use this form to submit questions in advance of the webinar.
This webinar is Part 2 of the Designing Programs with the New Assessments in Mind virtual PLC. VALRC will facilitate a follow-up session to discuss instructional and program design for the new assessments.
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Career Pathways PLC #3: Career Coaching and Supporting Learners for What’s Next
2026-02-27 12:00 - 13:30

Designing Programs with the New Assessments in Mind, Part 3
2026-03-04 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
Join adult educators from around the state to discuss the impact of new standardized assessments on program design and instruction. Focus will be on implementing CASAS Goals 2 and/or TABE 13/14.
You do not need to have attended earlier professional learning community (PLC) offerings before attending this collaborative session.
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Career Pathways PLC #4: Career Coaching and Supporting Learners for What’s Next
2026-03-20 12:00 - 13:30

Career Pathways PLC #5: Career Coaching and Supporting Learners for What’s Next
2026-04-10 12:00 - 13:30
