VESOL Resource Hub
Your year-round source for VESOL strategies and supportExplore strategies, videos, lesson plans, and practical ideas designed to facilitate meaningful instruction for students with extensive support needs throughout the year.
VESOL Alliance Origin Story
One idea. A growing alliance. Statewide impact.
VESOL Alliance began with a simple idea: bring educators together to share expertise, strengthen instruction, and raise expectations for students with extensive support needs. What began at T-TAC ODU grew into a larger collaboration as educators and T-TAC teams across Virginia joined the Alliance.
Strategies in Action
Ideas from the Alliance
VESOL Alliance is built on the belief that educators have tremendous expertise to share with one another. Explore strategies, demonstrations, videos, materials, and ideas contributed by educators through our VESOL Alliance Share Fairs.
Learn how plant babies can be used to teach students that plants need light, air, and water to grow.
Explore a variety of adapted writing utensils and high-interest materials designed to support students with motoric needs. This information highlights practical, accessible ways to ensure literacy materials are within reach for every learner.
Check out these life science ideas that can be easily adapted to different topics and used to make cross-curricular connections. Discover ways to use traditional game components and everyday household items to play games that reinforce content.
Learn how to simplify fractions using traditional playing cards. This instructional activity will engage learners of all ages.
In this interactive game, students catch fish labeled with whole numbers from 0 through 20. Each round, students compare two numbers they catch and decide which number is greater than, less than, or equal to the other. Students demonstrate their understanding by explaining their choice using math language (e.g., “12 is greater than 9”), pointing to number lines or visuals, or placing the fish under comparison symbols (> < =). Additional examples include standards from Middle and High School Mathematics.
Celebrating the Voice of Every Writer
All Write! is an annual writing contest that celebrates the creativity, growth, and achievements of students in Regions 2 and 3 who access the curriculum through the Virginia Essentialized Standards of Learning (VESOL). As part of T-TAC ODU’s Literacy Possible initiative, the contest showcases the belief that all students can become writers when provided with high-quality instruction, meaningful opportunities to communicate, and appropriate supports. Join us as we celebrate student voices and promote high expectations for every learner.
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