Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center (VALRC)
VALRC (Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center) provides professional development, training, and resources to expand access to high-quality instruction that equips adult learners with essential skills and resources. By expanding access to education and dismantling barriers to literacy, this program aids in workforce preparation for adult learners across the state of Virginia. The VALRC’s vision is “that the field of adult education and literacy will have the best available tools and training to help adult learners build a better future.”
The VALRC supplies both virtual and in-person trainings to adult education instructors and program staff across Virginia; provides career building support through workforce preparation models, including integrated education and training models; works closely with DARS to support learners who have disabilities; and manages the learner-facing GED® Virginia website and GED® Helpline.
The VALRC maintains four websites for this work:
- The VALRC main site for all adult educators and staff members: https://valrc.org/
- The IET (Integrated Education and Training) Blueprint: https://ietblueprint.com/
- Teaching Across the Board for working with individuals with disabilities: https://tab.valrc.org/
- GEDVA to support learners’ preparation for their GED® tests: https://gedva.com/
VALRC is funded by the AEFLA (Adult Education Family Literacy Act) through the VDOE and by DARS (the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services).
IET Blueprint
The IET Blueprint is a comprehensive resource designed for career pathway programs that integrate academic and literacy skills, workforce preparation activities, and occupational training. The resources on this site aid in designing, strengthening, and scaling career pathways programs through simultaneous co-enrollment in adult education and postsecondary occupational training.
The Blueprint offers a step-by-step guide designed for administrators, partners, and instructors to organize the necessary tools to plan, design, implement, and evaluate integrated education and training programs.
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Teaching Across the Board
Teaching Across the Board is a website developed through a partnership with the Department for Aging and Rehabilitative Services (DARS) that provides adult education program leadership, staff, and instructors with information, instructional strategies, resources, and accommodations for providing access to effective adult education for all learners seeking adult education opportunities. This site also provides resources on accessibility and dismantling barriers that can hinder success.
To learn more, please click here: Home - Teaching Across the Board
GEDVA
Through the VALRC, the GEDVA website and GED® Helpline offer resources, contact information, and interactive maps to help learners locate and enroll in adult education programs to prepare for their GED® tests and earn testing vouchers to take the GED® test for free. Learners may also use the site or call the Helpline for additional information on preparing for and taking the GED® test in Spanish, ordering their GED® transcripts, and accessing resources to support their transitions from GED® preparation to higher education, training, and career pathways.
To learn more about this program, please click here: https://gedva.com/
Contact Us
vdesk@vcu.edu
804-828-6521 OR 1-800-237-0178