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The 2018 Adult Education & Literacy Conference
by Tony Ryals In less than a month, the first Virginia Adult Education & Literacy (AE&L) Conference will take place at Fort Magruder Hotel and Conference Center in Colonial Williamsburg. VALRC, with support from the Virginia Department of Education (VDOE), has been hard at work to make sure this… Read More
A Vision for 2006
by Dr. Yvonne Thayer “By 2006, we can be recognized as a system that continuously improves to deliver services based on what adult learners need.” Since the mid-1980’s we’ve all been exposed to “the vision thing.” In fact, some of us are burned out on vision… Read More
A Look at the 2017-2018 Virginia Adult Education Performance Data
by Virginia Department of Education staff How was 2017-2018 different from the previous year? How closely does your program data reflect the state trends? First, watch the YouTube video recording presenting the 2017-2018 adult education demographic and performance data in Virginia. The presentation… Read More
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 CORE (Community OutReach and Education) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1999 in Alexandria with the mission of… Read More
Trade Adjustment Assistance Navigators Offer New Opportunities in Partnerships with Adult Education
by Kate Daly Rolander Since 2013 ,when the Virginia Employment Commission (VEC) began exploring ways to reskill the large number of workers whose jobs had been outsourced in the Radford area, Trade Adjustment Assistance (TAA) State Coordinator Anna Rice-Wright has endorsed the PluggedInVA model as the preferred model for… Read More
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 CORE (Community OutReach and Education) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1999 in Alexandria with the mission of… Read More
Health Program is a Good Fit for Adult Education
by Susan Erno “The challenge would be for teachers to find time to meet around their schedules.” There are a fair number of opportunities to enhance adult literacy programs through grants, pilot projects, and local and state initiatives. As a busy administrator, I look carefully at… Read More
Re-Envisioning the Conference Experience
by Katherine Hansen “Let us take the relationships that we have strengthened, the new cross-regional initiatives we have started, the successful projects we have formed and presented on, the energy and synergy that we experienced, the challenges that we have accepted—and conquered—through this Conference ReMix and use… Read More