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Events

  • Career Coaching #2: Building Partnerships

    Building Partnerships: Engaging community partners is vital for creating collaborative opportunities and resources that enhance program effectiveness and participant outcomes.

  • NEDP Leadership Meeting

    Online

    This semi-annual meeting allows Virginia educators involved in the National External Diploma Program (NEDP) to meet with leaders from across the state and to share information and promising practices. Registration […]

  • Career Pathways PLC #3

    The third and final installment of the 3-part 90-minute fall Professional Learning Community (PLC) series (3rd of 3) for ALL IET, IELCE, workplace literacy, and workforce development practitioners. This PLC will focus on targeted topics related to program design, using data to communicate needs and successes, locating and adapting instructional materials for all skill levels, and engaging employers and other partners to secure supportive services for all learners. Breakouts will focus on targeted topics for specific types of career pathways programming. Details and guest speakers will be announced on the listservs and on the Event Calendar.

  • LINCS: Developing Hyflex Lesson Plans

    Virtual

    Hyflex instruction provides maximum learning flexibility but challenges instructors with effective lesson planning. Join our guest presenter, Hyflex instruction expert Vi Hawes, for a free LINCS event to learn how […]

  • GEDTS Tuesdays for Teachers: Tackling Test Anxiety

    Online

    Test anxiety is a huge challenge for our students, but it can be overcome. Find out how test anxiety affects the brain and leave with easy-to-implement strategies like symptom reframing, […]

  • SCAN: Intro to Trauma & Trauma-Informed Care

    Virtual

    This training provides a foundational learning experience around the topics of trauma and trauma-informed care. We will define trauma, discuss the many types of trauma/adversity, explore the impact of trauma […]

  • ProLiteracy: Mastering the TI-30XS for GED Math Success

    Virtual

    The TI-30XS calculator can be a game-changer for students working to pass the GED Math Test—though many don’t yet know how to use it effectively. This engaging, hands-on workshop will […]

  • LINCS: Bridging the Digital Divide for Adult ELLS

    Virtual

    Whether you're an experienced ELL instructor or new to the field, this presentation will provide invaluable insights and resources to enhance your students' digital literacy skills while improving their language […]

  • EdTech Strategy Sessions: Fast PD and Media Creation

    Virtual

    Staying ahead of technology trends is tough for busy teachers, but we’ve got you covered! Join EdTech for two dynamic lightning talks designed to fit into your packed schedule. First, […]

  • Bimonthly Program Managers Meeting

    This year's bimonthly program managers meetings will be held on Mondays at 1:30p - 3:00p with an optional 30 minutes for discussion. Registering once will enable you to join ALL […]

  • VALRC: LACES data analysis session

    Online

    Join a group of Virginia practitioners for a hands-on experience working with data in the LACES system. Register here

  • CASAS: Digital Essentials for NEDP

    Online

    Join this one-hour "how-to" session to explore alternative digital tools to enhance NEDP competencies. We'll dive into resume templates in Canva, creating charts and graphs in Google Sheets, designing and […]

  • CASAS: Digital Essentials for NEDP

    Online

    Join this one-hour "how-to" session to explore alternative digital tools to enhance NEDP competencies. We'll dive into resume templates in Canva, creating charts and graphs in Google Sheets, designing and […]

  • Virtual Virginia #2: Canvas Administration

    The second part of a two-part series to support Canvas administrators to navigate the Genius and Canvas systems to set up courses, enroll learners, and then to add course content […]

  • NEDP PLC: Outreach

    Online

    This session of the Virginia NEDP Professional Learning Community will focus on outreach and marketing. Trainers will introduce the NEDP Marketing Plan template and discuss target audience identification, budget-friendly digital […]

  • Literacy Minnesota: Teaching Intermediate Alphabetics

    Virtual

    Teaching intermediate alphabetics (syllables, prefixes, suffixes, root words) is a great way to help students build their decoding and comprehension skills. Come learn a variety of fun and easy-to-use routines […]

  • Financial Literacy Across the Adult Education Spectrum

    This session explores the many needs for integrating financial literacy into instruction for all learners. Our panelists work with learners across the adult education spectrum: pre-literacy English learners, English learners with higher levels of education, and ABE and ASE learners. They discuss takeaways from the Financial Literacy Institute offered through COABE, the various needs for financial literacy within their adult learner populations, and classroom applications and resources to support learners’ financial literacy goals.

  • Literacy Minnesota: Math Content Webinar: Dyscalculia

    Virtual

    Join Literacy Minnesota for a session on dyscalculia; a specific learning disability that makes numerical reasoning and comprehension challenging for our learners. This session will build on previous trainings on […]

  • All About Accommodations (for GED® Testing)

    Online

    This session will be facilitated by Debbie Bergtholdt, Accommodations Manager at Pearson VUE. There are always updates and improvements to the accommodation request process.  Join us to find out what […]

  • DARS WINDMILLS

    DARS WINDMILLS

    Profiles: This module will examine how stereotyping of persons with disabilities may impact employment decisions.

  • Literacy Minnesota: Teaching Intermediate Alphabetics

    Virtual

    Teaching intermediate alphabetics (syllables, prefixes, suffixes, root words) is a great way to help students build their decoding and comprehension skills. Come learn a variety of fun and easy-to-use routines […]

  • Structure Your Program So Students & Staff Want to Stay

    Virtual
    Virtual Event

    Presented by Joyce Clement Jackson and Melinda Dart of Chesterfield County Public Schools Adult Continuing Education. This webinar will focus on the tools and strategies necessary to build a program […]

  • VALRC & VAACE: In-Person, Instructor Professional Learning Community

    Arboretum, Richmond, VA 300 Arboretum Pl, Richmond, VA, United States

    Are you looking for an opportunity to network with other adult education instructors? Do you want the space to consider application of the science of reading and inclusive instructional strategies? This in-person, instructor professional community is meant to […]

  • Bimonthly Program Managers Meeting

    This year's bimonthly program managers meetings will be held on Mondays at 1:30p - 3:00p with an optional 30 minutes for discussion. Registering once will enable you to join ALL […]

  • VALRC: Regional Instructional Specialist PLC

    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 […]

  • ProLiteracy: “What Am I Looking At?”

    Virtual

    It’s often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, but how do we know what that picture is saying? Even though we use visual literacy to understand what […]

  • CASAS: Assessing NEDP Client Work

    Online

    Join the NEDP national trainer and assessors from across the country as we practice assessing client responses to newly added questions. Register here.

  • CASAS: Assessing NEDP Client Work

    Online

    Join the NEDP national trainer and assessors from across the country as we practice assessing client responses to newly added questions. Register here.

  • DARS WINDMILLS

    Fact or Fiction: This module teaches participants to anticipate situations that might occur in the workplace with people with disabilities.

  • VALRC – Trauma-Informed Practices: An Introduction

    Virtual

    This webinar will present a working overview of this topic to begin incorporating trauma-informed practices into classroom instruction. Participants will also gain a better sense of what is happening to […]

  • Reflecting on Your Practice: Universal Design for Learning

    This one-hour webinar will provide an opportunity for participants to discuss their experience with implementing what they learned from the UDL course(s), sharing success and challenges around implementation and supporting others’ implementation, and ask about and brainstorm solutions to any questions they have based on their work.

  • EdTech Strategy Session: Lesson Planning + Sustainable AI

    Virtual

    The April 11th EdTech Strategy Session is for all educators - please share with your teachers statewide! They can register here: worlded.me/ETSS2024 These are the two lightning talk topics: ⚡ Tech Tools for […]

  • VALRC: Regional Instructional Specialist PLC

    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 […]

  • Switchboard: Navigating Difficult Conversations with Clients​

    Virtual

    ​​Newcomers often encounter complex and challenging situations as they adjust and integrate into society. Conversations with clients about these challenges can be particularly complicated given past trauma exposure as well […]

  • Spanish GED® Open Discussion

    Online

    Join the discussion to talk with colleagues around the state about challenges, successes, promising practices, and problem solving to support Spanish-language GED® programming. Register here.

  • DARS WINDMILLS

    Whose Fault: This module will improve participants’ awareness of the different players and roles in a successful business practice and to identify more effective ways to communicate and resolve conflict.