Career Pathways PLC #2: Career Coaching and Supporting Learners for What’s Next
2026-02-13 12:00 - 13:30 (America/New_York)
Join us for this five-part series on Career Coaching for adult learners. Part I: Celeste Hall from the Virginia Community College System will facilitate sessions one and two, focusing on the theories and strategies that support career coaching. Part II: Sessions three through five will be facilitated by Dr. Barbara Endel and will focus what it means to be an effective career coach, including intervention strategies, career pathways mapping, and establishing sustainable networks to support learners.
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VALRC: Universal Design for Learning (UDL) in Practice
2026-02-17 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-03-24 13:00 - 14:00, 2026-04-21 13:00 - 14:00 | Online
UDL in Practice is a 3-part series that introduces adult educators to practical strategies for designing inclusive learning experiences.
Part 1 will focus on the principle of engagement. Part 2 will focus on the principle of representation. Part 3 will focus on the principle of action and expression.

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Refresher: LACES Data Analysis Session
2026-02-17 14:30 - 15:30, 2026-03-17 14:30 - 15:30, 2026-05-26 14:30 - 15:30 | Online
Join a group of Virginia practitioners for a hands-on experience working with data in the LACES system. This is a refresher session geared towards beginning users and those who would like a refresher with data entry and using LACES.
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TABE Assessment Updates and Questions Answered
2026-02-18 14:00 - 15:00 | Online
This session featuring DRC representative Brian Shedd will provide updates on the TABE 13/14 assessments and address questions submitted by Virginia educators. Please use this form to submit questions in advance of the webinar.
This webinar is Part 2 of the Designing Programs with the New Assessments in Mind virtual PLC. VALRC will facilitate a follow-up session to discuss instructional and program design for the new assessments.
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LACES: Tracking MSGs and Outcomes
2026-02-24 13:30 - 15:00
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VALRC: Using Technology to Enhance Reading Instruction PLC
2026-02-26 14:30 - 15:30 | Online
SkillBlox is a free platform that contains over 10,000 vetted, high-quality, free and open educational resources you can use to build engaging lessons in a variety of subjects. In this 2-part workshop, we’ll explore a growing set of ready-to-go lessons (“Blox”) that you can easily save, copy, and adapt for use with your learners.
In part 1, you’ll learn the basics of how to explore SkillBlox for Blox created by other users, as well as how you can copy and adapt these Blox by adding activities, contextualizing content for your learning context, and more.
In part 2, participants will come together to showcase their work and share strategies and tips for how they used and adapted lessons from SkillBlox. Participants will also learn how to create custom pages to build lesson sets to share with learners or other instructors.
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Career Pathways PLC #3: Career Coaching and Supporting Learners for What’s Next
2026-02-27 12:00 - 13:30

IET Office Hour
2026-03-04 12:00 - 13:15, 2026-04-01 12:00 - 13:15, 2026-05-06 12:00 - 13:15, 2026-06-03 12:00 - 13:15 | Online
Come discuss IET planning tools, IET maps, and all aspects of programming for IETs, IELCE, and workforce programming in adult education. Come with questions!
IET Office Hours will be held the first Wednesday of every month, except January, from 12p – 1:15p.
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Bi-monthly Program Managers Meeting
2026-03-16 13:30 - 15:30, 2026-05-18 13:30 - 15:30, 2026-07-20 13:30 - 15:30
Bi-monthly virtual meeting for updates, news, and discussion for all adult education program managers.
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Career Pathways PLC #4: Career Coaching and Supporting Learners for What’s Next
2026-03-20 12:00 - 13:30

LACES: New Functionality in LACES
2026-03-24 13:30 - 15:00

Career Pathways PLC #5: Career Coaching and Supporting Learners for What’s Next
2026-04-10 12:00 - 13:30

VALRC: LACES Data Analysis Session
2026-04-28 14:00 - 15:30, 2026-06-16 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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LACES: Getting Ready for Close Out
2026-07-15 13:30 - 15:00
