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Meet Margie Jorgensen, Chief Academic Officer at K12

Submitted by on Mon, 04/29/2013 - 9:25am

'Meet the K¹² Community’ is a regular blog series featuring students, learning coaches, teachers, curriculum specialists and anyone else who plays a role in making online education a reality for children worldwide.

Profound changes in demographics and the world have brought about lofty challenges in education.

In a recent video for K12, Margie Jorgensen talks about those changes and related challenges in school districts across the country. She believes K12 can make a difference and meet students diversified needs as the world – and education – continue to evolve.

Part of that, she believes, will happen through quality testing. Margie fell in love with statistics, data and tests as she pursued her own education and eventually found success building tests to access educational success. Now, she’s proud to become a voice and advocate for “doing what’s right for students” at K12 and remove the fear and barriers around testing. Tests, she says, “can be fun and less scary.”

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Meet Matt Arkin, Head of School at Georgia Cyber Academy

Submitted by on Mon, 03/18/2013 - 9:23am

‘Meet the K¹² Community’ is a regular blog series featuring students, learning coaches, teachers, curriculum specialists and anyone else who plays a role in making online education a reality for children worldwide.

Matt Arkin certainly made a nice living as a business consultant before deciding to work in public education. But he didn’t have the opportunity to change lives the way he does today.

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Meet the Community - K¹² Visual Designer Daniel Boris

Submitted by on Wed, 10/12/2011 - 9:59am

‘Meet the K¹² Community’– is a regular blog series featuring students, learning coaches, teachers, curriculum specialists and anyone else who plays a role in making online education a reality for children world-wide.

Meet K¹² Visual Designer Daniel Boris

What is your background?

I attended George Mason University and studied Fine Art for a year, then enrolled in the Art Institute of Pittsburgh were I graduated with a degree in Commercial Art. I’ve worked as a professional visual designer ever since. 

What exactly is the role of a Visual Designer at K¹²?

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Meet the Community: Ashley MacQuarrie

Submitted by on Wed, 06/22/2011 - 11:25am

‘Meet the K¹² Community’ is a regular blog series introducing students, learning coaches, teachers, curriculum specialists and anyone else who plays a role in making online education a reality for children world-wide.

Ashley MacQuarrie

Back in 2002, when I was 15 and about to start my junior year of high school, California Virtual Academy opened its doors (so to speak). Among its first few hundred students was my younger sister, who was going into the first grade. Prior to that, my parents had experimented with a variety of homeschooling options with my brother and me, after it became clear that the brick and mortar elementary school I attended just wasn’t working for me. From independently homeschooling, to enrolling in a church homeschooling program, to starting a small private school co-op with other homeschooling families, we had seemingly tried it all.

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Meet The Community: Tiffany Higgins

Submitted by on Wed, 05/18/2011 - 11:46am

‘Meet the K¹² Community’ is a regular blog series introducing students, learning coaches, teachers, curriculum specialists and anyone else who plays a role in making online education a reality for children world-wide.

Meet our summer intern, Tiffany Higgins. A 2009 graduate of the Idaho Virtual Academy—K12’s very first graduating high school class—she has just completed her sophomore year at Brigham Young University – Idaho in Rexburg. 

Meeting and hearing from experienced K12 students and their families can make all the difference when parents are considering online education options for their children.  We are very fortunate that during the school year, Tiffany is a part our local community team, where she meets and shares her experience with families wanting to find out about the K12 high school program.  We are beyond thrilled that Tiffany has temporarily relocated to Northern Virginia to join our team as a social media & online community intern for the summer.

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Meet the Community: Ohio Virtual Academy Student Zach Veach

Submitted by on Mon, 03/28/2011 - 3:26pm

‘Meet the K¹² Community’– is a regular blog series featuring students, learning coaches, teachers, curriculum specialists and anyone else who plays a role in making online education a reality for children world-wide.

Ohio Virtual Academy Student: Zach Veach

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California Virtual Academies and K¹² Sophomore, Thia M is an American Idol Finalist

Submitted by on Thu, 03/10/2011 - 1:17pm

We have the most amazing students and love highlighting all of their accomplishments!

Thia M., a California Virtual Academy sophomore, is a Season 10 Finalist on the popular singing competition, American Idol.  Because she is a part of the K¹² family, we hope you will tune in and show your support as she pursues her dream!

Here’s more information on Thia:

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Meet The Community: Washington's Birthday Edition - Amelia Jackson-Zaremba

Submitted by on Fri, 02/18/2011 - 1:45pm

For those of you who have read my previous blog entries, I have mentioned how lucky I am that every day I get to meet and work with interesting and inspiring people as the K¹² Online Community Manager. But because the reasons why families choose online education are as varied as you could imagine, it’s nearly impossible for me to truly explain just how amazing these people are and what makes them so passionate about online learning.

So, in an effort to convey how diverse and inspiring the K¹² family is, I created ‘Meet the K¹² Community’ – a regular blog series that will feature students, learning coaches, teachers, curriculum specialists and anyone else who plays a role in making online education a reality for children world-wide.

Without further adieu, here’s our first introduction…

Since it’s Washington’s Birthday aka President’s Day, let’s meet Amelia Jackson-Zaremba, a K¹² Sr Instructional Designer in History, and find out what made her pursue a career that combines history, education and technology.

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Confessions of a No-Longer Teenage Grammar Queen

Submitted by on Fri, 11/05/2010 - 1:36pm

Today’s “Guest Blogger” is Allison Powell, an English and German teacher at Arizona Virtual Academy. Welcome, Allison!

Who has two thumbs and thinks analyzing adverb clauses is a good time?  THIS GIRL! 

Wait!  Come back!  I promise there will be no sentence diagramming here.  Just know, that as an English teacher, I can be both your best friend and your worst nightmare, and I apologize for when the grammar monster in me comes out a little too, um, exuberantly.

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This Week at K¹²: Online High School xPos

Submitted by on Mon, 07/19/2010 - 4:08pm

A new feature here on the thinktanK blog! Each Monday, I will post a new video and introduce you to a new member of the K¹² team who will share with you some of the things going on here.

This week, Marketing Director James Dale sat down with me to talk about the online High School xPos that are kicking off this week. These online sessions are open to all--both current K¹² families with a student going into the 9th grade, as well as families new to K¹² who want to see what our high school program, and virtual education in general, is all about.

To access the High School xPos in your state, simply click on your state on the map and then select the school.

James provides even more detail in this week's video...

 

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