WELCOME TEACHERS!
We invite you to join the Academy for Virtual Teaching
•Professional • Proficient • Profitable •
A Community of Virtual Educators
The Academy for Virtual Teaching is a vibrant and supportive paid membership community of professional quilt, craft, and art teachers. Together we are bringing our offerings to a global audience through live and on-demand virtual workshops.
The academy provides its members with continual professional development support and training to improve our virtual teaching skills so that we can become more Proficient, Profitable, and Professional educators, sharing the joy of making with our students.
"I appreciate the thoughtfulness in the amount and wide-range of content in the AVT Masterclass. It's very robust! Pretty much every area and topic for building a virtual teaching business are covered and there is concrete information on what you need and tutorials on how to get it done."
Kena Tangi-Dorsey
Kena Quilt Studios
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Why Join the Academy?
- Monthly Discussion Topics
Discuss all aspects of your virtual teaching business. - Monthly Roundtables
Live zoom meetings to brainstorm solutions with your colleagues. - Guest Seminars
Learn from the experts in these live Zoom interviews + Q&A. - Discounted Class Listings
List your workshops on the AVT class calendar (this website). Members get a $10 credit each month. - Accountability Groups
Meet with peers and help each other achieve your goals. - Professional Development
Access to free mini-courses like Virtual Teaching 101. - Practice Zoom Sessions
Get better at live virtual workshops by practicing with your peers. - Certification Program
Gain your AVT certification at a discount. Proof of your proficiency with virtual technology. - Virtual Teaching Masterclass
Members get a discount on this live, intensive capstone course, designed to take you through every step of setting up an online course and business. Masterclass students may build their first course on the AVT platform.
Monthly membership fees are $15 per month.
We welcome you to come and fully participate in our community for two weeks with no obligation.
"I've learned that my fellow teachers are not my competitors and each one has a space of their own. And that when we lift each other, we all rise together."
Saba Asim
To Thread or Knot
"I love the community. No one was worried about competition. Everyone was all in for helping and supporting each other."
Becky Campbell
Sew Forever Quilting
We build successful, independent, business owners!
AVT COURSES
Masterclass
Twice each year we open our keystone offering, a step-by-step guide to creating your own on-demand courses and improving your live virtual teaching skills. Masterclass members are invited to build their first on-demand course on the AVT platform at no further cost.
Virtual Teaching 101
A permanent course for Academy members, offered to the public twice each year, this mini-workshop is an overview of what you need to get your virtual workshops up and running.
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Sign up for our VIRTUAL TEACHER'S NEWSLETTER. Get monthly tips to help you with your virtual teaching, including equipment reviews and marketing tips. We also include an overview of what events are coming up in the Academy's community of amazing virtual teachers.