Designed for child and youth professionals across all roles and functions, the VLS provides evidenced-based content, demonstration videos, and practical tools to facilitate high quality …

The VLS team strives to support high-quality care and education by translating current research on child development and adult learning into a comprehensive professional development system.

The Infant & Toddler track is intended for early childhood professionals serving children ages 6 weeks through 3 years in center based programs. This track offers training and professional …

The Preschool track is intended for early childhood professionals serving children ages 3 through 5 years in center based programs. This track offers training and professional development …

The School-Age track is intended for early childhood professionals serving children ages 5 through 12 years in center based before- and after-school as well as summer-based …

Using the VLS: Coaching to Enhance Practice Research indicates that effective professional development combines high-quality evidenced-based training with practice-based coaching …

The VLS offers seven professional development tracks, providing both comprehensive foundational training, and more advanced, or specialized training with in-depth content and …

The VLS has intentionally embedded the required Resource Collection Items and Reflective Statements of Competence as Explore or Apply activities within foundational courses to assist …

The VLS was initially created as a professional development and resource system for the more than 30,000 professionals working in child and youth care and education programs run by the …

The Virtual Lab School (VLS) is an online professional development system initially created to provide the U.S. military child care system with a unified framework of information, resources, …