Search Results: distance education
The Virginia Common Access Portal: Connecting Service Providers to Increase Economic Opportunity
by Katherine Hansen The Virginia Careerworks Referral Portal is reimagining how Virginians can be better served through the alignment and coordination of service providers. According to Felix Schapiro, Workforce Policy Analyst in the Office of Governor Northam, “Access to the right information at the right time is key to… Read More
Top 5 Reasons to Teach with SPOTLIGHT
by Hillary Major 1. Student Voices are Powerful! The voices highlighted in the links provided below are just a few of the powerful stories shared in the pages of SPOTLIGHT*, Virginia’s annual anthology of writing by adult education and literacy learners. Of course, SPOTLIGHT also includes humorous… Read More
LINCS: Preparing Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder for Postsecondary Education
Join this live discussion featuring clips from the Autism Goes to College Project and discover strategies that can be used to better support neurodivergent learners, as more than half of young adults with autism remain unemployed and unenrolled in higher education in the two years after high school. … Read More
World Education: Equipped for the Elections: Media Literacy and Voting (Part 2)
Get Out the Adult Education Vote! — presented by Cynthia Peters, Jennifer Gagliardi, and others. Register… Read More
Virginia Wizard Supports Workforce Preparation
by Kate Daly Rolander The Virginia Wizard is an interactive online career exploration and planning tool developed and maintained by the Virginia Community College System (VCCS). Adult education programs around Virginia have incorporated the Wizard into their intake processes as a way to help learners identify their career… Read More
Virginia Office of Education Economics (VOEE) Career Pathways Data Webinar
On February 20 from 3:30-4:30 p.m., career coaches, adult educators, workforce professionals, and colleagues were invited to attend a webinar led by Virginia Office of Education Economics (VOEE) Research Director, Todd Oldham, to learn more about the latest tools developed for data analytics, the high-demand occupation list,… Read More
Kate Daly Rolander
I serve as the Director of the Resource Center in VCU’s Center for Teacher Leadership. In my role as manager, I support VALRC’s specialists through intentional collaboration, a focus on communication, and advocacy for the field in which we work, adult education. I also work with our primary funder, the… Read More
Laurel Ridge Community College – Adult Education Programs
Covers the counties of Clarke, Frederick, Page, Shenandoah, and Warren; the city of Winchester Read More