VALRC

Disabilities and the Adult Learner Online Course
2023-02-02 - 2023-03-15
This 6-week course will help you discover the keys to strengthening your work with adults who have disabilities.
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LINCS: Building Career and Technical Education Programs In Rural Areas
2023-02-01 15:00 - 16:00 (America/New_York) | Virtual
How can we build robust career and technical education programs in rural America? Join this interactive event to discuss and share ideas, learn from colleagues, and then continue the discussion in the LINCS Community.
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VALRC: IET/IELCE Instructors Professional Learning Community
2023-01-31 15:30 - 17:00 | Virtual
This PLC is an opportunity for integrated training and education (IET) and Integrated English Literacy and Civics (IELCE) instructors to network and collaborate in order to develop IET/IELCE lesson plans, curriculum, learner activities, assessments, etc. The purpose of this PLC is to be responsive to and relevant for IET/IELCE instructors as our first ever IET/IELCE offering geared towards instructors. See this Google Doc to learn more about this PLC!
The focus of this first session is for instructors to network with colleagues from around the state who are working in the same or similar industry clusters and instructing similar learners. The focus of the following sessions will be based on the goals and needs expressed by instructors in this first session.
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VALRC: Using Interactive Data Maps
2023-01-30 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
Come learn how to use the PIAAC and Barbara Bush Foundation interactive data maps to help identify the scope of need in your area. You will also learn how the information in these maps can help when writing grant applications, talking to business and workforce partners, or when planning outreach. Both maps use results from the PIAAC Survey of Adult Skills.
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LESLLA Coffee Break: The Quest to Develop Culturally Responsive Teaching: Unpacking Invisible Barriers to Learning
2023-01-27 10:00 - 11:00 | Virtual
This coffee break will explore contrasting assumptions and expectations in learning paradigms between educators and learners to identify (largely) invisible barriers to learning. Such an exploration fosters a mind shift, helping to lead to culturally responsive pedagogy, as well as serving to disrupt biases against and deficit views of LESLLA learners.

VALRC: Serving Refugees, New Americans, & Immigrants PLC
2023-01-26 15:00 - 16:30 | 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.
The first session will focus on cultural competence for working with diverse adult learners. Visit this Google Doc to learn more about the PLC!
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COABE & Aztec Software: Great Leadership Pathways Webinar Series: Part 3, Leadership Matters: 8 to Great Leadership Pathways
2023-01-25 15:00 - 15:30 | Virtual
Leadership skills are essential to everyone who works in Adult Education. Regardless of your role, having a firm understanding of leadership skills allows you to contribute more to those you serve and the agencies where you work. In this three part webinar series, nationally recognized adult education leader Reecie Stagnolia will explore the eight leadership skills needed by everyone who serves adult learners. Participants will do a deep dive into each of the eight pathways to leadership and walk away with skills that can be immediately implemented.

NEDP: Assessing 21st Century Workplace
2023-01-25 12:00 - 13:00, 2023-01-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
The 21st Century Workplace Competency Area can be particularly complex to assess and review.
Join us to discuss best practices for helping clients make the most of this important content.
The session includes tips and recommendations as well as practice assessing some of the most
common ND responses.

LINCS/VALRC: Trauma-Informed Care and Social Emotional Learning for Adult ESOL Instruction
2023-01-24 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Trauma-Informed Care and Social Emotional Learning can have a positive impact on persistence and language development for adult English learners. Join Kate Rolander and Hali Massey from the Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center for ideas on how to effectively integrate research-based practices into adult instruction for adult English learners. Participants will leave with numerous practical classroom activities and materials.

LINCS: Reading Behind the Walls
2023-01-24 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
Jeremy Gregg, author and prison reform advocate, will be our guest expert for the Reading Behind the Walls LINCS event taking place on January 18th at 3 PM ET. During this event, you will hear about how reading can change inmates’ lives as well as how literacy can be used to keep a strong connection with inmates’ families on the outside.

COABE & Aztec Software: Great Leadership Pathways Webinar Series: Part 2, Leadership Matters: 8 to Great Leadership Pathways
2023-01-18 15:00 - 15:30 | Virtual

LINCS: Digital Literacy as a Pathway to Computer Science through Idaho’s Onramp Program
2023-01-18 12:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
College of Western Idaho has partnered with Apple’s Community Education Initiative and On- Ramp to offer a digital skills pathway to computer programming. They will share how we connected our Adult Education and English as a Second language digital skills pathway to a computer programming certificate through this innovative partnership.

VALRC: Data Office Hours
2023-01-10 14:00 - 15:00, 2022-12-06 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.

National Digital Inclusion Alliance Presents: Digital Inclusion 101 Webinar
2022-12-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
Digital Inclusion practitioners have been working to end the digital divide for decades, creating their own community, definitions, resources, and gaining knowledge of what works and doesn’t. Digital Inclusion is a multifaceted issue that takes time to understand and NDIA is here to help!

LINCS: Celebrate Me Home - A Season of Learning Inside and Outside of Our Prisons and Jails
2022-12-16 12:00 - 13:00 | Virtual
As this holiday season approaches let’s explore educational gifts we can share with our students, colleagues, administrators and others that have been touched by our justice systems. Join us to discuss ways we can all become better educators for students who often struggle with life behind the walls and upon their return to society. Resources and better practices will be shared as we celebrate learning for our students and their families.

LINCS: Embedding Questions in Videos using Edpuzzle
2022-12-15 15:30 - 16:30 | Virtual
Edpuzzle is an online tool that allows teachers to insert questions in videos and track student responses. Guest expert Nell Eckersley will share the many ways Edpuzzle can be used for in-person, remote and hybrid classrooms — you will walk away ready to bring this tool to your classroom.

LINCS: Building a Comprehensive IELCE Program
2022-12-14 16:00 - 17:00 | Virtual
Discover how to build an effective IELCE program with guest expert Amelia Boggess. Share your promising practices, discover strategies to enhance your program, and learn how to implement a portion of your IELCE program via distance learning.

LINCS: Coffee Talk: Using Labor Market Information (LMI) in the Math Classroom
2022-12-14 15:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Join LINCS to revisit their September discussion on ideas and resources to help adult educators use labor market information in the math classroom with Brooke Istas, the LINCS Community Math and Numeracy group moderator.

Literacy Minnesota: Trauma-Informed Teaching Practices for Adult Learners
2022-12-09 14:00 - 16:00 | Virtual
Learning new languages and skills as an adult is a challenge for most people, and that challenge grows when trauma and stress are present. Trauma and chronic stress can come in many forms, and impact people’s ability to learn new skills and process information in a variety of different ways.
In this webinar, learn how stress and trauma can manifest in the adult education classroom, and learn about healing-centered teaching practices that can help to support positive learning behaviors and increase retention and learner comfort.

EdTech Center: EdTech Strategy Session
2022-12-09 13:00 - 14:30 | Virtual
This session will showcase the makers and resources from two recent EdTech Maker Space projects. Join us to hear more about the processes and tools adult educators have helped us develop for Curating Free Resources and Designing Reusable Digital Activities. These include an Open Educational Resources (OER) Evaluation Guide and a growing library of activities aligned to the Teaching Skills That Matter Topics.

LINCS: Math and Technology Unite!
2022-12-08 14:00 - 15:00 | Virtual
Looking for ways to engage students during math instruction? Thinking about utilizing technology but unsure where to start? Join moderator, Ashly Winkle, and guest presenter, Krista Mosher, to learn how to integrate technology tools, strategies, and best practices into math instruction.

EdTech Center: The Language of Digital Resilience: Let’s Build a Digital Skills Glossary!
2022-12-08 13:00 - 14:00 | Virtual
This session will provide information about EdTech’s upcoming Building Digital Resilience EdTech Maker Space (January-February 2023), part of the Digital Resilience in the American Workforce (DRAW) initiative! This hands-on, collaborative service-learning professional development opportunity will connect you with teachers around the country to crowdsource an open digital skills glossary, as well as design reusable vocabulary activities and instructor guidance to help build digital resilience in adult learners.

VALRC: Serving Refugees Fall 2022 Open Discussion
2022-12-08 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
This event allows Virginia adult education practitioners the opportunity to get together to discuss and share what their programs have been doing to reach and serve refugees in their programs. This will also be a time where participants can share what additional support and resources they would like to see from VALRC to continue to effectively serve refugees.

VALRC: IET/IELCE PLC
2022-12-06 12:30 - 14:00 | Virtual
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.
This session is going to focus on supporting instructors and instruction and additional PD for this upcoming Spring.

VALRC: Enhancing Access for Refugees and New Americans - Applying EARN to Virginia Adult Education
2022-11-29 15:00 - 16:30 | Online
The goal of this webinar is to disseminate strategies from the national webinar series on enhancing access for refugees and new Americans to the adult education programs in Virginia. During this presentation, participates will be able to learn about the EARN project and how those strategies can be applied to adult education services in the state of Virginia.
OCTAE’s EARN Project:

Recognizes synergy between Integrated English Literacy and Civics Education (IELCE) programming and immigrant integration efforts
Emphasizes the role that AEFLA-funded practitioners can play to increase the quality of services
Presents an opportunity to improve the quality of linguistic, civic, and economic integration services provided to diverse adult English learners (ELs)

Webinar Objectives:

Understand the goal and scope of the EARN project
Identify the role of IELCE in immigrant integration
Identify strategies for supporting the integration of immigrant learners through partnerships
Articulate the role of IELCE in career pathways
Identify strategies for engaging and supporting international trained professionals and beginning ESOL learners in IELCE programming

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VALRC: Spanish HSE Open Discussion
2022-11-17 12:30 - 13:30 | Virtual
This discussion series is a space for discussion and sharing of best practices for supporting Spanish-language HSE preparation.
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Teaching Writing: Argument
2022-11-15 15:30 - 17:00 | Online
This webinar explores how teachers can support learners in developing and writing arguments, including the GED® Reasoning through Language Arts essay.
The Teaching Writing series is targeted at ABE/ASE English language arts instructors, but anyone who teaches writing is welcome to participate.

VALRC: IET/IELCE PLC
2022-11-15 12:30 - 14:00 | Online
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.
This session is going to focus on debriefing the Career Pathways Summit: Research, Partners, and Career Coaching.
