COABE: Virtual Leadership in Action: Students as Leaders Summit 2025
2025-02-03 14:00 - 15:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
The Students as Leaders Summit (March 31, 2025) offers adult learners an opportunity to engage in a free hybrid learning experience where they will learn how to foster student leadership in their local programs. Learn how to foster virtual participation for all adult learners in your program to ensure that they do not miss out on this once-a-year opportunity for networking, connection, and learning!
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Literacy Minnesota: Teaching Intermediate Alphabetics
2025-02-03 14:00 - 16:00, 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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Financial Literacy Across the Adult Education Spectrum
2025-02-03 15:00 - 16:30
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.

Participants will come away from the session with an understanding of essential financial literacy topics and classroom applications.
Participants will engage in discussion about the many reasons that adult learners need financial literacy instruction that is relevant to their education, life, and career goals.
Participants will come away with resources and instructional strategies to integrated financial literacy concepts into their programming and instruction.

VALRC IET/IELCE Webinar, Behavioral Health Interpreter: An IET for Multilingual Adult Learners
2025-02-04 12:00 - 13:30 | Virtual
Learn about the Behavioral Health Interpreter IET, and its relevance for multilingual adult learners looking to leverage their language skills and assets.
Hear from adult education practitioners and their training partners on how to develop a collaborative IET program that leverages the strengths and experience of multilingual learners.
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Pro-Literacy: Incorporating Vocabulary and Writing into Any Instructional Material
2025-02-05 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 vocabulary and writing. This session is for those whose students are native English speakers.
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Literacy Minnesota: Math Content Webinar: Dyscalculia
2025-02-06 15:30 - 17:00 | 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 dyscalculia, diving into identifying students with math learning needs and working to shift students’ mindset and reduce math anxiety. This session will look at previously discussed number sense routines and work on coaching teachers on how to implement and use these routines in the classroom to build confidence in their math learners, while providing support for atypical learners.
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COABE: Building and Refining Specialized Services for Internationally Trained Professionals in Region 1
2025-02-11 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
This interactive discussion will highlight innovative service models for supporting Internationally Trained Professionals (ITPs). We will bring together adult education practitioners from Region 1 and beyond who have built ITP-focused programming across sectors (nursing, engineering) and that leverage different funding models. Whether new to this work or scaling existing programs, participants will learn about useful strategies for expanded impact to support ITPs with entering skills-appropriate employment and training. Please join the breakout conversations and the live Q&A!
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VALRC: Pre-literacy Activities for Emerging English Language Learners Webinar
2025-02-11 15:30 - 17:00 | Virtual
Are you an adult ESOL instructor looking to enhance your teaching strategies for adult learners with emerging literacy skills? Join our webinar and discover effective, practical approaches to help your learners succeed in literacy development!
What You’ll Learn:

Defining Literacy: Understand the core components of literacy and its challenges for adult ESOL learners.
Types of Learners: Explore the different literacy levels and how to meet the needs of diverse learners.
Essential Pre-Literacy Skills: Learn how to develop foundational skills like visual perception, discrimination skills, and comfort with writing tools.
Practical Activities: Engage in hands-on activities to build your students’ literacy.
Classroom Strategies: Discover effective strategies for integrating these pre-literacy activities in the classroom to meet learners where they are.

Why Attend?

Gain valuable insights on literacy instruction tailored to adult ESOL learners.
Learn strategies to help students develop critical literacy skills.
Leave with practical activities and tips you can use in your classroom immediately.

Who Should Attend?
ESOL instructors, literacy coaches, and anyone working with adult learners at the beginning literacy stage.
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Workforce GPS: Partnering with Employers for Inclusive Hiring and Retention
2025-02-12 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
You’re invited to the Section 188 Webinar Series: Pt. 2 – Partnering with Employers for Inclusive Hiring and Retention. Hosted by WorkforceGPS. The webinar will emphasize the vital role of AJCs and workforce partners in engaging with businesses to incorporate inclusion.
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Literacy Minnesota: Essential Zoom Skills for Online Instruction
2025-02-12 19:30 - 21:30 | Virtual
Join this hands-on session to learn and practice essential Zoom skills for the virtual classroom that may not be in your repertoire if your experience with the platform is limited to meetings with friends and colleagues at work.
The workshop will cover:

Turning off participants’ cameras and microphones
Re-naming participants
Sharing your screen
Annotating your screen
Setting up and visiting breakout rooms

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All About Accommodations (for GED® Testing)
2025-02-13 13:00 - 14:30 | 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 is new and to discuss accommodations available on the GED® test. Also learn what tools are available to help your students find the documentation they need to support accommodation requests. There will be time for questions and concerns you have related to this topic.
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EdTech Strategy Sessions — Tools and Strategies for Bringing AI to English Learners
2025-02-14 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
Bringing AI to Adult Literacy
What does it take to bring cutting-edge AI tools into real-world classrooms? This lightning talk dives into findings from a pilot study of the Pace AI platform, designed to support adult English learners. Discover how engaging features like pronunciation feedback boosted confidence and learning. We’ll explore where there’s potential and what’s on the horizon!
Fusing Literacies Through Content, Process, and Product
‘Fusing Literacies’ isn’t just a catchy phrase (or cool band name); it’s a call to action. It’s a call to connect our rich andragogical approaches to adult English language instruction with the play and promise of digital exploration—supporting our multilingual learners as they engage with technology-rich environments. Borrowing from Carol Tomlinson’s differentiation mode, this talk focuses on fusing through content, through process, and through product.
This session is sponsored by Pace AI.
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VALRC: Advancing Alphabetics: Systematic Phonics Instruction with EBRI Tools and AI Insights
2025-02-18 15:30 - 17:30 | Online
This session explores how systematic phonics instruction supports an effective reading program, using the Evidence-Based Reading Instruction (EBRI) Observation Tool for educator growth. Participants will gain insights into building alphabetics-based instruction and learn how Artificial Intelligence (AI) can offer truly exciting enhancements to these processes. Practical strategies for improving literacy outcomes and implementing evidence-based reading practices will be shared.
Presenter: Mora da Silva
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Literacy Minnesota: Developing and Practicing Reading Fluency
2025-02-18 19:30 - 21:30 | Virtual
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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Pro-Literacy: Professional Written Communication: Strategies for Teaching Workplace Writing
2025-02-19 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
In this webinar, participants will explore effective strategies for teaching workplace writing skills to adult learners. The session will cover the importance of the writing process and how to develop instructional activities that reinforce each step. Attendees will learn how to guide students in understanding and applying appropriate levels of formality in various professional contexts, addressing workplace etiquette and cultural knowledge.
Learn how to teach common formats of workplace communication—e.g., emails, memos, agendas—integrating key aspects of professionalism as well as basic writing skills. Participants will discover ways to integrate digital skills into writing instruction and will be introduced to valuable resources and classroom activities designed to enhance students’ professional writing abilities.
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Literacy Minnesota: Reading Activities for Beginning Literacy and Beginning English Language Learners
2025-02-21 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Teaching and tutoring very beginning level ESL readers can be intimidating for volunteers and professional teachers alike. Attend this webinar to get practical activities and ideas for one-on-one, remote and in-person instruction with tech and no-tech options. Leave feeling ready to provide your learners with meaningful and effective reading activities.
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LINCS Universal Design for Learning TA
2025-02-24 12:30 - 13:30
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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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 | 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 | 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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