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

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. Our system is designed to facilitate, and leverage, a practice-based coaching model in which trained coaches and program managers partner with and support child ...

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

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Mar 14, 2025 · VLS Supplemental Child Abuse Trainings: Recompletion Required Recomplete all trainings by March 14, 2025 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 four trainings to support CYP staff in the prevention ...

Once a VLS account is registered for you, a message will be sent to the email-address entered for your VLS account. This tutorial will walk you through how to follow the First Login steps so that your account is successfully setup.

1 R 2023 Classroom Materials Birth–12 Months BLOCK 1 CLASSROOM ITEMS Cognitive Mobile or hanging shapes (Option 1) Melissa & Doug® Fishbowl Fill and Spill (Options 2, 3)

VLS Supports Infant Toddler, Self and Cultural Understanding, Lesson 1, Apply Infant Toddler, Learning Environments, Lesson 5, Explore Preschool, Social & Emotional Development, Lesson 4, Learn SA, Social & Emotional Development, Lesson 4, Learn/Apply

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 (VLS) team has begun development of a Youth foundational track aimed at professionals working in programs with youth (ages 12–18 years).

While all Virtual Lab School content is available to the public, currently only individuals employed by military child and youth programs are eligible to create a VLS user account (See Account Registration Availability). Eligible staff members receive VLS account registration and log-in instructions through their program leadership.