Georgia Superintendent of Schools to Recognize Georgia Cyber Academy for Family Engagement

ATLANTA–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Helping to debunk a longstanding myth that online families are not
sufficiently engaged in student learning, Georgia Superintendent of
Schools Richard Woods will visit Georgia
Cyber Academy (GCA) on Wednesday, Nov. 9, at 10 a.m. to congratulate
the virtual school’s family engagement team for winning the Department
of Education’s Parent Engagement Month video contest.

The winning video,
produced by GCA family engagement members and shown to more than 1,200
parents and educators at the 2016 Georgia Family Engagement Conference,
showcases specific strategies and best practices for parental
involvement in student learning.

“We conduct regular and meaningful engagement with the families of our
students,” said Maria Blencowe, GCA’s high school family engagement
coordinator, who produced the video. “We’re demonstrating we are a real
school just like all of the others in the state of Georgia.”

Superintendent Woods will present the family engagement team with a
certificate at an assembly during Wednesday’s visit. In addition, he
will have a brief meet and greet session with GCA’s Student Advisory
Council and will tour the school’s classes and offices. You are
cordially invited to go “behind the scenes” to show your audience how
virtual learning works!

About Georgia Cyber Academy

Georgia Cyber Academy (GCA) is an accredited, full-time online public
school program that serves students in grades K through 12. As part of
the Georgia public school system, GCA is tuition-free, giving parents
and families the choice to access the award-winning curriculum and tools
provided by K12 Inc. (NYSE: LRN),
the nation’s largest provider of proprietary curriculum and online
education programs. For more information about GCA, visit http://gca.k12.com.

Contacts

Georgia Cyber Academy
Jessica Schuler
K12 Manager of Corporate
Communications
703-436-2211
jschuler@k12.com