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SUMMARY:VALRC: The Change Agent for ABE & HSE Instruction
DESCRIPTION:The Change Agent is a magazine for adult educators and learners that features relevant\, engaging articles — most of them written by adult learners. In this webinar\, Cynthia Peters\, longtime educator and editor of The Change Agent\, will introduce Virginia instructors to this standards-aligned resource and how it can be used to teach reading\, writing\, and even math. She will demonstrate how Virginia teachers can make use of their free access to The Change Agent and include practical\, time-saving teaching ideas and tips. \nThe Change Agent features writings by adult learners and aims to inspire adult educators and learners to make civic participation and social justice part of their teaching and learning. Each issue explores a different topic through student writing\, news articles\, opinion pieces\, classroom activities\, poems\, graphics\, and cartoons. The Change Agent website includes many additional resources\, including audio versions of articles\, leveled texts\, links between specific Change Agent articles and the College and Career Readiness Standards\, and extra resources for each issue. \nThis webinar focuses on adult basic education (ABE) and adult secondary education (ASE)/high school equivalency (HSE) instruction\, but all Virginia adult educators are welcome to attend. A session focused on using The Change Agent with English language learners will be offered on March 2\, 2023. If you have questions about accessing The Change Agent (for free) as a Virginia adult educator\, please contact Hillary Major\, hmajor@vcu.edu\, at VALRC. \n 
URL:https://valrc.org/event/change-agent-abe-webinar/
LOCATION:Online
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SUMMARY:VALRC: The Change Agent for English Language Instruction
DESCRIPTION:The Change Agent is a magazine for adult educators and learners that features relevant\, engaging articles — most of them written by adult learners. In this webinar\, Cynthia Peters\, longtime educator and editor of The Change Agent\, will introduce Virginia instructors to this standards-aligned resource and how it can be used to teach English language learners. She will demonstrate how Virginia teachers can make use of their free access to The Change Agent and include practical\, time-saving teaching ideas and tips. \nThe Change Agent features writings by adult learners and aims to inspire adult educators and learners to make civic participation and social justice part of their teaching and learning. Each issue explores a different topic through student writing\, news articles\, opinion pieces\, classroom activities\, poems\, graphics\, and cartoons. The Change Agent website includes many additional resources\, including audio versions of articles\, leveled texts\, links between specific Change Agent articles and the College and Career Readiness Standards\, and extra resources for each issue. \nThis webinar focuses on English language acquisition and civics instruction\, but all Virginia adult educators are welcome to attend. A session focused on using The Change Agent with ABE and HSE learners will be offered on March 1\, 2023. If you have questions about accessing The Change Agent (for free) as a Virginia adult educator\, please contact Hillary Major\, hmajor@vcu.edu\, at VALRC. \n 
URL:https://valrc.org/event/change-agent-for-ells-webinar/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:VALRC: Key Shifts Series - Teaching Learners to Use Evidence
DESCRIPTION:Teaching with the CCRS Key Shifts is a series of workshops designed to provide evidence-based strategies for working with complexity\, evidence\, and knowledge. Each workshop focuses on a different English language arts/literacy key shift and encourages an interactive learning experience. Participants will engage in several activities they can take back to the classroom to help their learners interact with texts in a more meaningful way. The workshops are appropriate for anyone teaching reading\, writing\, or language skills\, and last 90 minutes.  \nDates: \n\nTeaching with Complex Texts: A Workshop – Tuesday\, February 21\, 2023\, 1-2:30pm\nTeaching Learners to Use Evidence: A Workshop – Tuesday\, March 7\, 2023\, 1-2:30pm\nTeaching to Build Knowledge: A Workshop – Tuesday\, March 21\, 2023\, 1-2:30pm\n\n 
URL:https://valrc.org/event/valrc-key-shifts-series-teaching-learners-to-use-evidence/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230321T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230321T143000
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SUMMARY:VALRC: Key Shifts Series - Teaching to Build Knowledge
DESCRIPTION:Teaching with the CCRS Key Shifts is a series of workshops designed to provide evidence-based strategies for working with complexity\, evidence\, and knowledge. Each workshop focuses on a different English language arts/literacy key shift and encourages an interactive learning experience. Participants will engage in several activities they can take back to the classroom to help their learners interact with texts in a more meaningful way. The workshops are appropriate for anyone teaching reading\, writing\, or language skills\, and last 90 minutes.  \nDates: \n\nTeaching with Complex Texts: A Workshop – Tuesday\, February 21\, 2023\, 1-2:30pm\nTeaching Learners to Use Evidence: A Workshop – Tuesday\, March 7\, 2023\, 1-2:30pm\nTeaching to Build Knowledge: A Workshop – Tuesday\, March 21\, 2023\, 1-2:30pm
URL:https://valrc.org/event/valrc-key-shifts-series-teaching-to-build-knowledge/
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SUMMARY:GEDTS Tuesday for Teachers: Have You Talked about “Zero” Lately?
DESCRIPTION:GED Testing Services offers the Tuesdays for Teachers series as a free professional development offering. Here’s their description of the upcoming March session: We often “talk about nothing\, or zero” in day-to-day conversations. A conversation about the “zero” in RLA is certainly “nothing” and has become a serious concern for many educators and their students. We hear the concerns and need to address “the elephant in the room:” the zero in the scoring rubric. In this session\, we will answer your questions about “why a zero?” and provide a deeper understanding of the zero. Join us to help students improve their writing skills on the Extended Response and real-world writing. Register today!
URL:https://valrc.org/event/gedts-tuesday-for-teachers-have-you-talked-about-zero-lately/
LOCATION:Virtual
CATEGORIES:Webinar
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SUMMARY:VALRC: Contextualized Phonics Instruction
DESCRIPTION:This webinar will present strategies for contextualizing phonics instruction in the ESOL beginning literacy or multilevel classroom as well as during one-on-one tutoring sessions. We will discuss strategies for contextualizing phonics instruction and walk through the steps of implementing this strategy in different ESOL instructional settings. Participants will leave the webinar with an understanding of this approach\, how it benefits ESOL beginning literacy instruction\, and strategies for implementing this approach in the adult ESOL classroom. \nRegister Here
URL:https://valrc.org/event/valrc-contextualized-phonics-instruction/
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