Featuring: Brad Rathgeber, Director, Online School for Girls
May 10, 2012
5:30 - 8:30 (includes dinner)
Last year, NAIS released their Online Learning
Guide, which made the
argument that: "Those schools that can leverage an environment of abundant
online learning options will have a competitive advantage. The ‘agile’
school will embrace new delivery models that add to its ability to offer a
diverse curriculum while maintaining the high standards of quality
expected of independent schools." And yet, independent schools have
been
timid-- sometimes for very good reasons-- in their embrace of online
learning, even as colleges and public schools embrace it.
For the past three years, Brad Rathgeber, the Director of the Online School for Girls,
has been creating an independent school approach to online learning. Brad
will talk about this approach and help schools understand the landscape of
online learning, evaluate the options available to independent schools,
and think strategically about incorporating online learning into their program.
Brad
Rathgeber is the Director of the Online School for Girls (OSG), a non-profit consortium of more than fifty of the nation's best schools. As Director of OSG, Brad is committed to bringing the best of independent schools and girls schools online. Prior to working for OSG, Brad was an administrator and teacher at Holton-Arms School in Bethesda, Maryland. He is a graduate of independent schools (Hotchkiss School and Mooreland Hill School in Connecticut), has an
undergraduate degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
and a graduate degree from Dartmouth College. He has presented to NAIS,
NCGS, NBOA, many state and regional associations, and to American Schools
internationally on online learning. And, he has been quoted in the Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, and on PBS.
program.