Welcome to the Online School for Girls!

The Online School for Girls is both the first single-gender online school and the first independent online school in the world.

As a girls’ school, we have a commitment to offering courses that are designed for the ways that girls learn best.  Our teachers have created courses that rely on research indicating that girls occupy online spaces differently from boys, and that focus on areas that research tells us work best to engage girls in the online medium: connection, collaboration, application, and creativity.  Girls in our courses establish real connections with each other and to their teachers.  Girls in our courses collaborate regularly– online learning at OSG is not an individual, computer-centric pursuit.  Girls in our courses apply what they learn to the real world.  And, girls in our courses are given outlets for creativity, and creativity is encouraged.

As the first online independent school, the Online School for Girls is committed to independent school values of high admissions standards, small class sizes, and relationships as critical to the learning process.  Also, following the independent school tradition, our courses are created by our teachers– unlike most other online schools, we do not “purchase” courses from providers and repurpose them.  Our teachers are experts in their fields, and all have experience teaching at girls’ schools and independent schools.

It is also important for you to know that the Online School for Girls is a consortium effort of over fifty of the best nationally and internationally known schools.   Our schools share a commitment to girls education and have proven expertise in creating school environments for girls that, according to research, have resulted in higher academic achievement and self-confidence.

The 2011-2012 school year is an exciting one for us.  We are launching a summer program for the first time, OSG Summer, and new courses in the Arts, Foreign Language, Science, and Social Science.  We are also expecting to either double or triple the number of students taking our courses.  And, this fall, we will announce a couple of new initiatives that will engage students even further in online courses.  I encourage you to stay up-to-date with the School by following us on Twitter and by following my blog.

Thank you for visiting. Please feel free to contact us with any questions. We hope you will join us.

Brad Rathgeber
Director