LINCS Universal Design for Learning TA
2025-02-24 12:30 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
More to come.

VALRC: Differentiated Science of Reading Instruction for Multilingual Learners
2025-02-25 15:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
Do you want to tackle the challenges of teaching multilevel ESOL classes? Are you looking to address the varied learning needs of individual students within one classroom and become an effective multi-level teacher?
This session will focus on ways to provide differentiated instruction to multilingual learners, with a focus on incorporating alphabetics, fluency, vocabulary, and comprehension. Participants will engage in hands-on activities from the perspective of a learner. Activities will include examples of and materials for differentiating learning content, process, and product.
This is a repeat session from Fall 2024.
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DARS WINDMILLS
2025-02-27 14:00 - 15:00
Profiles: This module will examine how stereotyping of persons with disabilities may impact employment decisions.

ProLiteracy: Incorporating Reading Comprehension into Any Instructional Material
2025-03-04 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Students often need more practice on a specific skill than the worksheets you have on hand. Join us to learn how to make your materials do double duty to practice reading comprehension. This session is for those whose students are native English speakers.
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Literacy Minnesota: Teaching Intermediate Alphabetics
2025-03-04 19:30 - 21:30 | 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 and activities for helping intermediate-level readers develop these important tools.
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Structure Your Program So Students & Staff Want to Stay
2025-03-06 12:30 - 14:00 | Virtual
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 where both staff and students learn and grow together. The three focus areas include building relationships, building learning models, and building partnerships. For each of these areas, we will provide practical ways to make programs meaningful for both staff and students. Learning tools and templates will be provided.
Participants will gain:

practical ways to establish and maintain relationships that result in retention of staff and students,
tools to provide quality instruction through effective learning models, and
ideas to build partnerships that empower students and staff to have a voice in the community.

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Literacy Minnesota: Tips and Strategies for Online Instruction
2025-03-07 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
During the early days of the pandemic, remote instruction was a necessary evil that many begrudgingly endured. But as the options for in-person instruction opened up, many learners chose to continue to learn in an online environment. Join this session to learn and see modeled tips and strategies for teaching and tutoring online, and determine how to bring them back to your context. This session is appropriate for educators working with both English language learners and adult education students. (Note: This session does not include technical how-to skills for using Zoom or other platforms.)
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LACES Data Housekeeping and Diagnostics
2025-03-10 13:30 - 15:00
Join us for a webinar on the LACES data system for Virginia adult education programming.

Literacy Minnesota: Comprehension Strategies for Intermediate-Level Readers
2025-03-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Virtual
Research shows that explicitly teaching a set of comprehension strategies is a great way to help intermediate-level readers maximize their understanding of texts. Come learn a handful of great comprehension tools that will help students develop critical thinking skills and comprehension skills.
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VALRC & VAACE: In-Person, Instructor Professional Learning Community
2025-03-15 10:00 - 14:00 | Arboretum, Richmond, VA, 300 Arboretum Pl, Richmond, VA, 23236, 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 be a gathering place for all adult education instructors to meet, network, and learn together!
This PLC and all pre-work can be used to meet the Memo 62 PD requirements.
Location: 300 Arboretum Pl # 200, Richmond, VA 23236
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Bimonthly Program Managers Meeting
2025-03-17 13:30 - 15:30
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 of the meetings for the 2024 – 2025 year.
Please save these dates on your calendars for the meetings:

September 16
November 18
January 13
March 17 (wear green!)
May 12

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VALRC: Regional Instructional Specialist PLC
2025-03-18 12:00 - 13:00, 2025-04-15 12:00 - 13:00 | 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. The PLC meets monthly.
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ProLiteracy: “What Am I Looking At?”
2025-03-18 13:00 - 14:00 | 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 we see and encounter in our everyday lives, there is added pressure when facing it on a High School Equivalency (HSE) test. In this webinar, Kara will identify key methods for decoding graphs, charts, tables, and maps on the HSE tests.
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CASAS: Assessing NEDP Client Work
2025-03-18 16:00 - 17:00, 2025-03-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
Join the NEDP national trainer and assessors from across the country as we practice assessing client responses to newly added questions.

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VALRC - Digital Resilience in the American Workforce (DRAW) PLC
2025-03-21 13:00 - 14:30 | Online
Session 1 – March, 21st from 1-1:30pm, Session 2 – April, 25th from 1-1:30pm, Session 3 – May 23rd from 1-1:30pm
These interactive sessions will define digital resilience and focus on its importance for both instructors and students. Participants will gain insight and discover practical ways to begin implementing EdTech routines in the classroom, as well as participate in guided learning circles to share ideas and challenges.

Literacy Minnesota: Developing and Practicing Reading Fluency
2025-03-25 14:00 - 16:00
Come and review the important role of fluency in reading instruction. We will discuss the three key components of reading fluency and look at a variety of activities tutors and teachers can try. We will talk about the mechanics of doing fluency practice via Zoom, Google Meet, Teams or any other remote tutoring tool (including the phone!). Participants will have plenty of opportunity to ask questions and share resources.
This workshop will be most useful for instructors working with low-intermediate to advanced readers.
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GEDTS: GED Math Test-Taking Strategies & Calculator Skills, Part 1
2025-03-25 15:30 - 17:00 | Online
Presented by Kellie Blair Hardt, this month’s Tuesdays for Teachers will focus on helping learners bridge the gap between struggle and success on the GED Math exam. This interactive, hands-on session will equip you with proven test-taking strategies to support learners in overcoming common skills gaps—particularly in working with polynomials, formulas, and problem-solving techniques that often present challenges. You’ll learn what to teach and how to teach it to enhance student comprehension, reduce errors, and improve test efficiency—including how to maximize the TI-30XS Multiview calculator to its full potential.
Please bring paper, pencils, and a TI-30XS Multiview calculator for this interactive session. Don’t miss out on engaging, effective, and fun strategies you can apply immediately in the classroom!
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ESOL Basics: Instructional Strategies
2025-03-27 - 2025-04-23 | Online
Course runs: 3/27/25 – 4/23/25 (4 weeks)
Registration Now Open for Instructional Strategies!

DARS WINDMILLS
2025-03-27 14:00 - 15:00
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
2025-03-28 13:00 - 14:30 | 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 a learner’s brain when they experience stress and trauma.

Reflecting on Your Practice: Universal Design for Learning
2025-04-07 12:30 - 13:30
This one-hour webinar and open conversation will provide an opportunity for participants to discuss their experience with implementing what they learned from the UDL course(s) and webinars, 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.
We’ll also open up the webinar for conversation around how we want to continue as a learning community to strengthen UDL practices across the board, from intake to instruction to transitions. We look forward to seeing you all there!
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EdTech Strategy Session: Lesson Planning + Sustainable AI
2025-04-11 13:00 - 14:30 | 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 Lesson Planning by Anthony Burik
OTAN has technology tools for lesson planning. The OTAN Lesson Plan Builder helps teachers structure the parts of the lesson. The Teaching with Technology tool helps identify lesson plans integrating technology that engage students, enhance their learning, and extend their learning. At the foundation of both are the WIPPEA lesson plan model and the Triple E framework. We also discuss the impact of AI on lesson planning and how OTAN tools connect with a teacher’s AI work.
⚡ Reducing AI Waste by Rachel Riggs
You may have heard or wondered about generative AI’s impact on the environment. In this lightning talk, learn some teacher-friendly tips to reduce AI waste based on the top priorities of the waste management hierarchy: prevent, reduce, reuse, and recycle!

VALRC, The Science of Reading: Utilizing Learner-Centered Strategies
2025-04-17 15:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
This webinar will present strategies to develop reading instruction through the use of learner-centered strategies.
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VALRC: LACES data analysis session
2025-04-22 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
Join a group of Virginia practitioners for a hands-on experience working with data in the LACES system.
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Switchboard: Navigating Difficult Conversations with Clients​
2025-04-23 14:00 - 15:15 | 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 as cultural differences. This workshop will offer best practices for navigating these sensitive and challenging conversations with a mutually respectful and trauma-informed approach. Participants will explore effective communication strategies through case scenario examples to develop skills for engaging clients productively.​
IS THIS WEBINAR FOR ME?
​​This webinar is designed for service providers who want to bolster their communication skills, particularly when discussing difficult topics with clients. This webinar will also be valuable for agency supervisors and organizational staff who interact with newcomers or support client-facing staff. ​ ​

While not a requirement, Switchboard encourages participants to review the Switchboard guide Preventing Crises and De-escalating Difficult Situations with Newcomer Clients (2023) in advance of this training.​

WHY SHOULD I PARTICIPATE?
After participating in this 75-minute session, you will be able to:

​​Recognize ongoing resettlement challenges, including employment and housing barriers, that require difficult conversations between clients and providers
Identify key communication skills and specific phrases that help maintain supportive, respectful conversations for both clients and providers ​
Apply a trauma-informed and compassionate approach to current client and service provision challenges​

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Spanish GED® Open Discussion
2025-04-23 15:30 - 16:30 | 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.
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DARS WINDMILLS
2025-04-24 14:00 - 15:00
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.

VALRC: Trauma-Informed Practice Part 2: Strategies for Adult Education Instruction
2025-04-24 15:30 - 17:00 | Virtual
This webinar will focus on practical classroom and instructional strategies that adult education instructors can use to implement trauma-informed practices in the classroom
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