Join LINCS for a guided tour of South Carolina’s Adult Education Instructional Resource Library, and learn how what began as one region’s desire to house digital lessons has evolved into a statewide library of instructional resources for educators with digital lessons that can be used independently by students. View this website for more information!
Join Ventures for a week of insights from Adult Education teachers and experts sharing what they’ve learned from the last two years and what the future holds. New videos will be posted daily from February 28th to March 3rd, leading up to a live Q&A with the presenters. Visit this website for more information!
This session will explore our own intuition about how to reason proportionally and learn to generalize those ideas into a strategy that works even when the numbers get messy – and that makes sense! Presented by Sarah Lonberg-Lew, Adult Numeracy Center at TERC. Visit this website for more information!
Join the Math and Numeracy Coffee Break to discuss ways to connect with learners virtually. The moderator will lead a conversation about resources and ways to develop connectivity and a deeper understanding of mathematical concepts. So bring your beverage and come to socialize and join the conversation. View this website for more information!
This Spring VALRC is hosting two Quality Teaching Online Open Discussions. Each session will have a specific focus and will include some brief information about the topic and opportunities for participants to share their questions, experiences, and resources regarding that session’s topic. The goal is for all participants to leave each session with advice, resources, […]
Community Colleges have historically played a key role in identifying and promoting interventions that advance equity and opportunities for marginalized populations. Join this webinar for a series of three roundtables exploring how community colleges can better measure equity in their programs and incorporate strategies to improve employment-related outcomes for historically marginalized groups. Visit this website […]
The Center for Applied Special Technology (CAST) www.cast.org is hosting a webinar to allow participants to inform the redesign of seven professional development modules specifically for Adult Basic Education (ABE) teachers. These modules will be designed to help educators effectively teach and support neurodiverse adults, including those with learning disabilities.
This Distance Education Strategy Session will shed light on the employer’s perspective and highlight common goals between adult educators and employers. We will hear from Cambria and Tyson Foods, two employers that have leveraged EnGen to fuel their adult education partnerships.
The Family Literacy PLC is a working group for programs awarded the family literacy planning grant. This group is also working with the National Center for Families Learning, a national organization dedicated to multigenerational learning within families.
The Teacher Leader 201 PLC series is a continuation of the Teacher Leader 101 PLC series. This PLC focuses on supporting educators set and implement a goal for improving their practice.
The webinar presents standards-based activities that instructors can use to engage learners for purposeful reading of meaningful texts.
Click the title to register for the in person event, register for the virtual event, or learn more. The convention offers professional development opportunities to English language educators at all levels from around the world. In lively interactive sessions, educators develop a global perspective through the exchange of ideas and practices. Participants integrate knowledge of […]
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Click the event title for links to the courses. Beyond Basics: ESOL Beginning Literacy Disabilities and the Adult Learner These six week courses run from March 24,2022-May 4, 2022.
This PLC connects adult education practitioners (regional specialists, ESOL coordinators, instructors, tutors, etc.) who are or expect to serve the refugee population to discuss strategies and resources for working with this specific population. The focus of this session is training ESOL or ABE teachers in low-literacy virtual and in-person instruction. Registration for this event is now closed. Please sign up […]
The Family Literacy PLC is a working group for programs awarded the family literacy planning grant. This group is also working with the National Center for Families Learning, a national organization dedicated to multigenerational learning within families.
4th Monday of each month from 4:00–5:00 p.m.
The Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center is facilitating a Professional Learning Community (PLC) on Integrated Education and Training (IET) and Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education (IELCE) for practitioners who are currently implementing or planning to implement IET programming, including IELCE and PluggedInVA. In addition to topics identified in the exit tickets, this session will […]
The webinar presents standards-based activities that instructors can use to engage learners for purposeful reading of meaningful texts.
