In the spring of 2020, teachers across the world were thrust into online classrooms. With little guidance, experience, or inspiration, they were expected to recreate their physical and emotional classrooms into online spaces.

Some teachers excelled. Some (if not all) were frustrated. Others were just simply confused.

I was in my 4th year of teaching classroom science. This experience and the following years of teaching, observing, and learning online created a massive ripple in me. I would go from teaching hybrid (some in person and some online) to starting an online business and developing my own online course, to taking signature courses taught by others.

All the while, I was hearing from others about their frustration in online classes they were taking. The teachers weren't showing up. There were no support systems. The tech was challenging. They weren't inspired.

While also taking courses that built me up, I felt apart of a community. I wanted to dig deeper, be involved.

This was the dichotomy I was seeing profoundly valuable online education and disengaging, disappointing, and even frustrating systems.

So here it is: the challenge.

There is no support system for online educators. No matter what that looks like company training, signature courses, or academics. No framework or guiding principles that can help bridge the gap as so many people are entering into this space.

We are seeing a massive expansion of online education, and with AI, this is only going to get bigger. But without a framework or support, these initiatives will fail flat. They won't create the impact we live in.

We live in an incredible age of information and knowledge. The challenge isn't what we'll learn or teach, it is how and why.

Cheers, Kim