The rise of online learning is rapidly transforming how and what teachers teach, and even whoor whatteachers are.In the midst of these changes, the characteristics that have historically defined a high-quality education are easily lost.Not only content knowledge, but also ways of thinking and habits of mind are the hallmarks of the well-educated individual, and these latter qualities are not so easily acquired online. Or are they?
This volume shows how a group of online-learning believers built the best high school in the world without laying a single brick: the Stanford Online High...

In this companion volume to Bricks and Mortar, Jeffrey Scarborough and Raymond Ravaglia present a series of essays written by senior instructors and division heads at the Stanford Online High School (SOHS). Written from the perspective of the online-learning practitioner, these essays discuss in detail the challenges of teaching particular disciplines, accomplishing particular pedagogical objectives, and fostering the habits of mind characteristic of students who have received deep education in a given discipline. Perspectives from the Disciplines also examines counseling,...