“All Students Can Be Successful Online: Interview with 2012 National Online Teacher of the Year Leslie Fetzer”

“Q&A: All Students Can Be Successful Online” Interview with 2012 National Online Teacher of the Year Leslie Fetzer by Ian Quillen was originally published by Education Week’s Digital Directions. At a time when a growing number of researchers examining virtual education have questioned...

Meet Online Kindergarten Teacher Janae Cardel

Many people have questions about how online learning works for very young learners–and if it works at all. As an online kindergarten teacher for Pennsylvania’s Commonwealth Connections Academy, Janae Cardel knows a thing or two about the topic–and she says it works. Janae was the winner of...

Online Teacher Janet Steele

Janet Steele is a middle school teacher with Washington Virtual Academy. In addition to an impressive list of credentials –as well as several awards — Janet has spent 27 years in teaching and professional development. Ms. Steele was kind enough to tell us her thoughts on teaching, online...

“Why Online Learning Matters” according to a teacher of at-risk students

Like the previous post, below is a teacher’s perspective–this time about how Alternative Learning Experience Programs literally rescue the future of at-risk youth. I am a teacher with Spokane Public Schools. I work with the OnTrack program, a credit completion, ALE, program for 11th and 12th...

“Why Online Learning Matters” according to a teacher

This morning we hear from a teacher from Insight School of Washington. She has a unique perspective on what is at stake in making budget cuts that would prevent online schools from continuing to operate. Last February I had a student who had just had a double lung transplant at Stanford University in Palo...