GLOBAL ONLINE ACADEMY
This fall, Boys’ Latin will launch a partnership with Global Online Academy (GOA), a worldwide not-for-profit consortium of leading independent schools designed to prepare students and educators to thrive in a globally connected society. Boys’ Latin upper school students will have the opportunity to take online courses on a multitude of specialized topics with students and teachers from across the globe. More than 125 high-performing independent schools participate, representing 30 countries.
Students will enroll in a semester-long course of their choosing; courses range from Architecture to Personal Finance to Neuropsychology. Mrs. Sara Rosiak, Boys’ Latin’s GOA on-site director and director of educational support services, describes the advantages of these programs: “GOA allows students to see if they are interested in a specialized area of study, and gives students the opportunity to experience learning in a different way. Time management and self-motivation are critical, and students will need to tap into those skills.”
Self-motivation and time management lie at the core of independent learning, and GOA will allow students to hone those skills. Liam McClure ’22 took the class Entrepreneurship in a Global Context via GOA this past spring in a pilot program. He remarks, “The teacher was amazing, and the content was really useful and insightful.”
