WE REACHED THE FINISH LINE!
CONGRATULATIONS TO OUR 10 TEAMS PROVIDING ACTIONABLE SOLUTIONS FOR VIRGINIA'S ADULT EDUCATORS.
Thank you to all who attended the AE&L ReMix Showcase!
To access materials shared by the challenge teams, please click on the link provided in the schedule.
Let the teams know how they did by providing your feedback in the interactive Padlet.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
WEDNESDAY,
April 14
10:00 - 10:30 Welcome & Opening Remarks, Moving Ahead with Adult Ed
Joanne Huebner, Manager, Virginia Adult Learning Resource Center
Dr. Heidi Silver Pacuilla, Coordinator, Office of Adult Education &Literacy,
Virginia Department of Education
10:30 - 11:00 Team 1 - Shine Virtually: Best virtual practices
11:00 - 11:30 Team 2 - Southside Solutions: Students & employers
11:30 - 12:00 Team 3 - CBLO Remix: Building diversity among volunteers in
community-based literacy organizations
12:00 - 12:15 Reflection & Team Feedback
12:15 - 1:30 Break
1:30 - 1:45 Daquanna Harrison, Taking it From Here: Learning and Growing Through
the Lens of Diversity
1:45 - 2:15 Team 4 - Retention Remix: Strategies for improving student retention
2:15 - 2:45 Team 5 - S.P.A.C.E. Matters: Incorporating workforce skills in the GED® & ELA classes
2:45 - 3:00 Reflection & Team Feedback
3:00 - 4:00 Think Tanks, Where do we go from here?
Facilitated by AE&L ReMix Peer Coaches
Thursday,
April 15
10:00 - 10:30 Becoming Teacher Leaders VALRC staff with AE&L ReMix Peer Coaches & Teaching
the Skills That Matter Leaders
10:30 - 11:00 Team 6 - SHINE Super Scientist Family Literacy: Science-based stories & hands-on
experiments to engage families & advance literacy skills
11:00 - 11:30 Team 7 - Fairfax HSE Pathway: Multiple tier systems of support 2020 style
11:00 - 11:30 Team 8 - Registration Remix: Reinventing virtual registration
12:00 - 12:15 Reflection & Team Feedback
12:15 - 1:30 Break
1:30 - 1:45 Jorge Valenzuela, Taking it From Here: Implementing Project-based Learning (PBL)
1:45 - 2:15 Team 9 - TJACE@PVCC: Making "Festival of Cultures" a virtual event
2:15 - 2:45 Team 10 - Reach Out: New marketing strategies to access vulnerable populations
2:45 - 3:00 Reflection & Team Feedback
3:00 - 4:00 Closing Ceremony
Keynote Address: DJ Enferno, Connecting to Create Emotion & Inspire Action
Lessons Learned
Call to Action
Evaluation & Future Professional Development Interest
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
DJ Enferno has been a music professional since 1991 & has performed for over 3 million people in 36 countries including touring with Madonna in the 2008-2009 Sticky & Sweet World Tour. He has produced concert music for Madonna, Shakira, Rihanna, & the Michael Jackson Cirque Du Soleil shows.
Beyond the stage and studio, DJ Enferno is an evangelist for music technology education. At his brick-and-mortar music technology school, Mix Major (in Herndon, VA), he teaches kids & teenagers (Grades 3-12) as well as adults how to compose, produce, & record their own music. Mix Major empowers these students with 21st-century creative technology skills. DJ Enferno has collaborated with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra's Educator's Team to design & create lesson plans geared toward elementary, middle, & high school students. As well, he creates & publishes free educational video content for traditional music educators with his Teacher TV YouTube videos. Music teachers from London, to New Zealand, to Zambia, & the USA have used DJ Enferno's tutorials to craft music technology curriculum for their schools.
Keynote Address: Connecting to Create Emotion & Inspire Action
Bring your creativity, problem-solving, collaboration, & communication skills to this interactive session as DJ Enferno leads us in an online statewide team building experience. Equipped with Electronic Dance Music (EDM) industry- standard software, DJ Enferno will engage with attendees & lead us in identifying our core values & articulating our unified mission through music. At the end of this session, we will have together created beats, melodies, & chords to arrange and produce our Virginia Adult Education anthem that we can then share with the world. Believe it or not, no music training or music production experience is required. You don't want to miss this one-of-a-kind learning event!
SPECIAL RETURN APPEARANCES BY THE AE&L REMIX SPEAKER SERIES
Daquanna Harrison
Jorge Valenzuela