The Virtual Lab School (VLS) empowers child care professionals to build their knowledge and improve their practices through a robust online professional development system. Designed …

The Virtual Lab School (VLS) provides child and youth educators an opportunity to advance their knowledge and skills through a research-based, online professional development system.

Initially created for professionals working in military child and youth care and education programs, the Virtual Lab School (VLS) is designed to support all child and youth care and education …

The Virtual Lab School (VLS) professional development system empowers child and youth professionals to build their knowledge and skills around research-based educational practices.

Positive guidance impacts the healthy development of children. In this course you will learn about typical behaviors of infants, toddlers, preschoolers, and school-age children, as well as …

Preschool children thrive in learning environments that are designed with their unique needs and interests in mind. This course will help you plan engaging interest areas and also address how …

School-age children thrive in learning environments that are designed with their unique interests and needs in mind. In this course you will learn how to create developmentally appropriate …

In 2023, at the request of the U.S. Department of Defense’s Office of Military Community and Family Policy: Office of Child and Youth Programs, the Virtual Lab School team developed …

In this course, you will learn about indoor and outdoor environments, safe games and learning materials, staff to child ratios, supervision indoors and out, internet safety, safe routes to …

Teach staff members about developmentally appropriate environmental designs for learning. Model how to design effective environments and help staff brainstorm solutions. Observe and …