• ESOL Basics Online Course

    This course is designed for adult educators who are new to teaching English to speakers of other languages (ESOL). Registration

  • VALRC: Key Shifts Series – Teaching with Complex Texts

    Virtual

    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 […]

  • LINCS: What is Dyscalculia?

    Virtual

    Join LINCS to discuss dyscalculia, a math disability. In this session, participants will learn more about potential signs of dyscalculia and strategies for supporting identified learners. Bring your stories and resources for supporting these learners in your classroom! Register Here

  • VALRC: Serving Refugees, New Americans, & Immigrants PLC

    Virtual

    This professional learning community (PLC) will connect adult education practitioners (regional specialists, ESOL coordinators, instructors, tutors, etc.) who are serving or expect to serve the refugee, new American, and/or immigrant populations to discuss strategies and resources for working with these learners. This session will focus on instruction, incorporating literacy at all levels and balancing learner […]

  • LINCS: Digital Portfolios: Grow, Create, Reflect

    Virtual

    Learn about the benefits of digital portfolios in the classroom, to showcase student growth, creativity, and reflection through 21st Century Learning Skills. In this hands-on session, participants will be walking away with lesson ideas for their classroom and making their own sample portfolio using Google Sites.  Visit this website to learn more! Register Here

  • VALRC: The Change Agent for ABE & HSE Instruction

    Online

    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, […]

  • VALRC: The Change Agent for English Language Instruction

    Online

    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 […]

  • VALRC: Key Shifts Series – Teaching Learners to Use Evidence

    Virtual

    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 […]

  • VALRC: Key Shifts Series – Teaching to Build Knowledge

    Virtual

    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 […]

  • GEDTS Tuesday for Teachers: Have You Talked about “Zero” Lately?

    Virtual

    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. […]

  • VALRC: Contextualized Phonics Instruction

    Virtual

    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 […]

  • Beyond Basics: Multilevel ESOL Classes (Online Course)

    This course is designed for teachers who want to tackle the challenges of teaching multilevel classes. It is for teachers who want to address the varied learning needs of individual students without planning individual lessons and burning out. It is for teachers who want to become highly effective multi-level classroom teachers by using strategies that […]

  • VALRC Spring Math Webinar Series – Session 1

    Virtual

    The first session will cover the math interest survey responses, including a discussion of the strategies and topics and math instructors want to learn about most. We will also explore how The Change Agent, an adult learner publication, can be used for contextualized math instruction. The content focus for webinars 2 and 3 will be […]

  • Serving Internationally Trained Professionals Open Discussion

    Virtual

    This open discussion will bring together adult education programs and other refugee/immigrant serving organizations to discuss strategies and practices for best serving internationally trained professionals (ITPs) in order to support […]

  • LINCS Digital Storytelling for Better Writers

    From the LINCS Reading & Writing Community: How can we use multi-media storytelling to build better writers? What role does storytelling have in Adult Basic Education? In this live session […]

  • VDOE Data Office Hours

    Online

    This session will offer additional technical assistance with end-of-year data reporting. Register Here

  • LINCS: Culture in the Adult Education Mathematics Classroom

    Virtual

    Join Dr. Carmine Stewart to discuss the importance of acknowledging and valuing students' diverse cultures and experiences in the mathematics classroom. We’ll explore ways to incorporate culturally responsive teaching practices […]

  • VDOE June Open Conversation

    Online

    The VDOE team will host a June open conversation about the conclusion of the current year and start of the new year. This is not mandatory. Use this link to join Meeting ID: 858 1354 2792 Passcode: 140308

  • VDOE Data Office Hours

    Online

    This session will offer additional technical assistance with end-of-year data reporting. Register Here

  • VDOE Data Office Hours

    Online

    This session will offer additional technical assistance with end-of-year data reporting. Register Here

  • LINCS: COABE Follow-Up for Digital Lit & Tech Strand

    Virtual

    Join Rachel Riggs and Nell Eckersley for  the conversation  started a few months ago at COABE 2023! How have we navigated new technologies over the years? What lessons can we […]