Archive indexBuilt from the “Our Projects” menu that ran down the left of every page from 2009 to 2016.
Our Projects
The Institute split its work the way its menu did: adult education on one side, early childhood and family literacy on the other. A few of the original links pointed at sites that no longer exist (elearnva.com and the vcuerf subdomain); those entries now lead to the pages in this archive that describe them.
Adult education
- Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center (VALRC)Professional development and resources for Virginia’s adult educators; part of the Institute from 2003 and still at VCU.
- Standards in Action2008–09 federal pilot: two Virginia ESOL programs align classroom assignments to state standards.
- CAELA Network2008–10: Tier 1 of a three-tier certification for adult ESOL instructors.
- LESLLAInternational forum on adults learning a second language with little prior schooling; Richmond hosted it in 2006.
- LESLLA 2006 proceedingsContents of the Research, Policy, and Practice volume.
- 2009 SummitThe Future of Adult Education in the New Digital World, 5–6 November 2009.
- PlugGED InGED plus Microsoft certifications and workplace skills in Southwest Virginia.
- eLEARN VirginiaFree statewide distance-learning GED program with online mentors, launched 2007.
Early childhood and family literacy
- Richmond Early Reading First (RERF)The first Early Reading First grant: preschool literacy with VCU Head Start.
- RERF sitesThe eight Richmond child care centers in the 2007 program.
- Community spotlightA family evening at the Children’s Museum of Richmond for 180 people.
- PEELLS and SEELLSThe second and third Early Reading First projects; SEELLS won $4.49 million in 2008.
- ExCELLExcellence in Children’s Early Language and Literacy, the program on the 2013 site.
About the projects
Which of these projects still exists?
The Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center. It was already some 25 years old when the Institute absorbed it in 2003, and it still trains adult educators at VCU (valrc.org).
Which projects were federally funded?
The three Early Reading First grants (RERF, PEELLS, SEELLS), the Standards in Action pilot and the CAELA Network project all came through the U.S. Department of Education. PlugGED In was funded by the Governor’s Productivity Investment Fund and the Virginia Department of Education.
Which projects dealt with adults learning English?
Standards in Action and CAELA trained adult ESOL teachers, and LESLLA brought researchers together on adults learning to read in a second language with little prior schooling.
Why do some entries open a press page?
eLEARN Virginia and the SEELLS project had their own websites, which are gone. The press items that announced them are the best surviving description.