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February 2023 / Digital Literacy, Instruction, Program Management, PROGRESS, VALRC, Virtual Learning

Unsung Hero: Jason Bruffey

Jason Bruffey IT Support Middle Peninsula Regional Adult Career Education (R.A.C.E.) Region 18 Thanks to Jason Bruffey, King William County Public Schools Director of Technology, the Middle Peninsula R.A.C.E. Read More
September 2022 / Civics, Digital Literacy, ESOL, Information Literacy, Instruction, Literacy, Virtual Learning

New Course! USA Learns Access America

USA Learns has a new course! Access America is a course for students with an intermediate level of English who want to improve their language skills while learning about how… Read More
August 2022 / Digital Literacy, Instruction, Literacy, Program Management, Virtual Learning

New Spanish Northstar Digital Literacy Assessment and Materials

Northstar Digital Literacy is pleased to announce the release of the Spanish language version of their Basic Computers assessment, and the corresponding Northstar Online Learning module. To access the Spanish language assessment,… Read More
July 2022 / Beginning Literacy, Culturally Responsive Education, Digital Literacy, Diversity, Equity-Minded Practice, ESOL, Instruction, Literacy, PROGRESS, VALRC, Virtual Learning

Virtual ESOL Classes for Afghan Women

by Darlene Fahrenkrug Last year, I taught two virtual English classes for Afghan women at a beginning level (including emergent readers). They studied on Zoom four hours… Read More
July 2022 / Culturally Responsive Education, Digital Literacy, Diversity, Equity-Minded Practice, ESOL, Instruction, Literacy, PROGRESS, VALRC, Virtual Learning

Refugee Integration through Digital Equity

by Mary Lynch Through its partnership with World Education and Commonwealth Catholic Charities, Literacy for Life seeks to ensure that refugees resettling in the Peninsula area… Read More
July 2022 / Culturally Responsive Education, Digital Literacy, Diversity, Equity-Minded Practice, ESOL, Instruction, Literacy, PROGRESS, Virtual Learning

Computer CORE (Community OutReach and Education): A Nonprofit Partner for Teaching Computer Skills and Opening Doors for Immigrants

by Nagia Khaldi Kurabi and Donna Walker James People come to us lost and don’t know what to do—we show them how to succeed. Computer… Read More
March 2022 / GED®, HSE, Instruction, Professional Development, PROGRESS, Virtual Learning, Webinar

Creating Opportunities through the Evolving GED® Test Program

by Adora Beard The GED® test program is evolving to become more learner-centric which remains essential to helping learners develop their skills for postsecondary education… Read More
March 2022 / ELA, ESOL, HSE, Instruction, Outreach & Engagement, Program Management, PROGRESS, Student Retention, Virtual Learning

A Learning Circle Blueprint for High School Equivalency Instruction in Adult Education

by Hali Massey Learning Circle Introduction World Education has been piloting and implementing learning circles in adult education programs since 2016. Learning circles aim to… Read More
March 2022 / ELA, ESOL, Instruction, Literacy, Virtual Learning

Name Change: ESL Library is now ellii

As of March 14, 2022, ESL Library will now be known as ellii. Watch a video and read this blog post to find… Read More
June 2021 / 2021 AE&L Conference ReMix, Accessibility, AE&L Conference, Digital Literacy, Equity-Minded Practice, Instruction, Literacy, PROGRESS, VALRC, Virtual Learning

Best Virtual Practices

“Using the AE&L Conference ReMix Team Challenge online support process provided by the VALRC (Google site, milestones, on track, and stay organized, PBL site, & focus question techniques); we identified… Read More

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