VALRC

TESOL 2022 International Convention & English Language Learning Expo
2022-03-22 - 2022-03-25 | Hybrid
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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 current trends in the field while developing a professional network.

VALRC: Engaging English Language Learners in Purposeful Reading Part I Webinar
2022-03-16 16:30 - 18:00 (America/New_York)
The webinar presents standards-based activities that instructors can use to engage learners for purposeful reading of meaningful texts.

VALRC: Teacher Leader 201 PLC
2022-03-16 12:00 - 13:30 | Online
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.

VALRC: Family Literacy PLC
2022-03-14 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-02-28 14:00 - 15:30, 2022-02-14 14:00 - 15:30 | Online
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.

EdTech Center: Digital Literacy and the Employer’s Perspective
2022-03-11 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
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.

LINCS: Reimagining Online Training: Using UDL to Support Adult Basic Education Teachers
2022-03-11 10:30 - 11:30 | Virtual
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.

LINCS: Historically Marginalized Populations in the Community College System
2022-03-10 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
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 for more information!

VALRC: Quality Teaching Online Open Discussion
2022-03-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
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, and new practices or strategies to try in the classroom.
Participants can attend any or all of these sessions and should be prepared to share their current instructional issues and questions, as well as be willing to provide their expertise and advice, and share resources with others.
This session is focused on student Engagement and Use of technology tools in the online or blended learning classroom.
During this session, the following topics may be addressed:

Setting expectations for student participation
Engaging learners with Synchronous and Asynchronous methods
Using UDL to meet the needs of all learners
Managing group work
Integrating instructional technologies for online learning activities such as Google Docs, Jamboard, Kahoot, Quizlet, etc.
Creating screencasts/videos for online learning
Utilizing a learning management system like Canvas, Blackboard, Google Classroom, Schoology, etc.

LINCS: Coffee Break: Teaching Interactive Math Online
2022-03-07 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
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!

ATLAS: Proportional Reasoning: Strategies that Make Sense
2022-03-03 16:00 - 17:30 | Virtual
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!

Ventures: Adult Ed Virtual Event 2022
2022-03-03 15:00 - 16:30
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!

LINCS: Collaboration = Multiplication: Building an Instructional Resource Library
2022-03-02 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
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!

VALRC: IET & IELCE PLC Session 2
2022-03-02 12:30 - 14:00
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.

VALRC: Data Office Hours March 2022
2022-03-01 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
Data Office Hours is an hour long, ongoing monthly meeting for anyone involved in adult ed data collection and reporting. This session provides support for policy and practice related to NRS data collection.
1st Tuesday of Each month from 2:00–3:00 p.m.

VALRC: Math Instructor Support Group
2022-02-28 16:00 - 17:00
4th Monday of each month from 4:00–5:00 p.m.

VALRC: Serving Refugees PLC
2022-02-24 12:30 - 14:00 | Virtual
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 Asset-based approach strategies for working with emerging English language learners.
Registration for this event is now closed. Please sign up for our VAELN listserv to learn about upcoming offerings.

VALRC: Preparing English Language Learners for Purposeful Reading Webinar
2022-02-23 14:00 - 15:30
This webinar is designed to provide standards-based activities to prepare English language learners for purposeful reading by activating background knowledge, highlighting key vocabulary, and establishing context before reading meaningful texts.

VALRC: Teacher Leader 101 PLC
2022-02-22 12:00 - 13:30 | Online
The teacher leader PLC focuses on culturally responsive education and learning partnerships. The group will utilize Zaretta Hammond’s Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain as a foundation for discussions on making teaching and learning more responsive and inclusive. PLC participants will be ready to apply a toolbox of culturally responsive education strategies and tools to strengthen teacher-teacher and teacher-student interactions through recognizing how growth mindset impacts learning, questioning to achieve more directed goal-setting, applying culturally responsive frameworks for learning and teaching, and using feedback models to foster constructive changes in learning and teaching.
