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Community
Community is central to The Open School’s virtual program. Even though Open School students are spread across the country, working from bedrooms, basements, and home offices, and pursuing their individual passions and interests, they belong to a safe, welcoming, and supportive community. In the virtual program students are continuously co-building their individual journeys and the community itself. 

Highlights of our virtual community include:

Long-term student/staff relationships 
Each student has a staff adviser to help them plan, reflect, problem solve, and choose. Students also engage with staff through group advising, activities, committees, and unscheduled hangouts. 

Acceptance
We are a community of unique individuals, each of us with life histories and stories, each pursuing our own interests and passions. In our community it is important that we make space for everyone to be comfortable being their genuine selves. Our community is built through sharing of ourselves and supporting each other. 

Interaction
Our virtual community allows for planned and scheduled events and activities but also spontaneous, unplanned, and asynchronous hanging out. A student might post a picture of their cat to the Pets channel, share some artwork they recently created in the Art channel, hang out and chat with friends in the Lounge, or show up for a Create Music activity in the Treehouse. Our all-ages campus is full of creativity, games, conversations, and sharing. 
Democracy
All students are equal members of the weekly School Meeting where decisions are made about rules, resources, and priorities. Students may also decide to join a Committee, such as the Conflict Resolution Committee or Virtual Community Development or become an Agent such as the School Meeting Chair or the Birthday Agent to help the day to day running of the school. 

At The Open School democracy also happens day to day in casual conversations, chats, and consultations. Part of the function of Advising, Group Advising, and Committees is to give every student an opportunity to talk about problems, solutions, and ideas for changes. Students have a genuine voice in the virtual program and our community makes sure to listen to every voice. 
Activities and Offerings
Students at The Open School are welcome to spend their time following their own interests and curiosity and pursuing their personal goals but we also offer an evolving slate of co-created activities and offerings.

Weekly Activities
Each week students create and sponsor activities that they would like to participate in, these might include games they want to play, topics they want to discuss, music and videos they want to share, even picnics, dance parties, and hangouts. At then end of the week the students vote and schedule events for the next week’s calendar.

Spontaneous, Self-Directed, and Group Activities 
Just because an activity isn’t on the schedule doesn’t prevent students from organizing themselves for creative projects, games, and hangouts. We have open voice and video channels that are always available for students to gather together to work and play. Students also use direct messaging, text channels, and chats to interact and engage with the community without relying on schedules or adults to organize them. 

Session Offerings
For students interested in activities that have a longer duration, we run 6 week sessions for classes, workshops, projects, and seminars. These might include introductions to academic topics, workshops on art, music, animation, and video tricks and techniques, group creative projects, or any other topic students are interested in. The community spends a few weeks prior to each session suggesting ideas and co-creating the offerings for the upcoming 6 week session. 

College Credit Courses
The Open School virtual program has partnered with Arizona State University to make over 70 college credit courses available to our students at a deeply discounted rate. The Open School staff is available to help students select appropriate courses, get signed up, and monitor their progress.

In addition to the ASU partnership, the virtual program is intentionally designed to be flexible enough for students to take college and community college courses at institutions local to them. Staff can assist students in exploring their local options and navigating the system for applying and registering. 

Diploma Program
Once students reach high school age they are automatically part of The Open School Diploma Program. As a member of the Diploma Cohort students have access to additional staff mentoring, peer workshops, and the opportunity to participate in The Adventure, a student-planned travel experience, and Captstone, a year long student driven project. The culmination of the Diploma Program is the sharing of each graduating student’s Story at the year end Story Celebration and Graduation at the Orange County campus.
Responsibility and Leadership
Students are not just given the freedom to pursue their journey, they are given the responsibility to manage and maintain the community in which their journey takes place. Every student plays a leadership role at the school from managing the community as a member of the School Meeting, to sharing their journey with others and supporting others as they follow their own paths. 

For a student to genuinely engage in self-directed learning, they must feel safe to be open and authentic. They must feel safe to make mistakes, safe to change their mind, safe to say I would rather not. Daring to be yourself requires a community that accepts you as a full and worthy person. It helps to be yourself if you have a community that is curious and interested in who you are and what you are like.

For students who want to be more active in this community they may elect to join a committee or become a designated agent. 

Committees and Task Forces
Conflict Resolution Committee
Virtual Community Development Committee
Engagement Committee 
Yearbook Committee
Newsletter Committee
Discord Moderator Committee
Welcome Committee
Law Book Review Task Force
Travel Task Force

Agents and Roles
Student Buddy
School Meeting Chair
School Meeting Clerk
Student Advocate
Student Representative on Board of Directors
Birthday Agent
Virtual Planner
Minecraft Server Moderator
Play
Like all Sudbury Schools, the virtual program values play and playfulness as a fundamental part of the experience. You will find the core tenets of play: taking risks, making mistakes, exploring new ideas, and experiencing joy every day in our virtual community. 

When students play, they are engaged, relaxed, and challenged.
Through play students, test theories about how the world works, experiment with language, explore social relations, take risks, reimagine the world. 

Play and playfulness create rich psychological experiences like empathy, agency, and imagination.They learn to deal with uncertainty, adapt and improvise, and find solutions. 

We have intentionally built a virtual community that not only values play and playfulness but has found ways in our virtual space to encourage and enable the kind of play you would see naturally at an in person Sudbury program. 

In addition, the virtual program provides the flexibility for students to play outside of our virtual space and in the real world. We have an intentionally open schedule and very limited attendance requirements in order to give students the flexibility to play and do activities in the real world.
Travel
Even though our community lives in the digital realm, it is a genuine community where students develop meaningful relationships and friendship with each other but they also love any opportunity to meet in person. 

Camp IRL
Once per year, virtual students from across the country travel to The Open School’s Orange County campus for a week-long “Camp IRL”. This is a unique opportunity for virtual students to meet each other face-to-face, while also getting to visit local attractions and experience what goes on at the Orange County campus. Students can travel with or without parents, and we offer communal lodging so students can stay together.

The Adventure
Any high school aged student can elect to participate in a group-planned travel experience called The Adventure. The Adventure is typically 1 or 2 weeks in length with the location, lodging, and activities picked and planned by the students. The school supports The Adventure with funding support and a staff chaperone. 

Travel Task Force
In addition to the more formal travel opportunities like Camp IRL or The Adventure, students may elect to participate in a Travel Task Force that attempts to plan and execute shorter, regional, or additional opportunities for virtual students to meet up with each other in the real world. 

Family Travel
We recognize the immense value of travel experiences and the flexibility of our virtual program enables families to travel with their students without problems or guilt. Whether the students just takes time off or connects virtually from wherever they are, family travel is supported.
Learning
What do students learn in this kind of school?

Though we don’t have mandatory assignments or tests, all students learn to read, write, and do arithmetic. Why? Because those things are a part of real life.
Text is woven into the modern world, and kids want to be a part of that world. They have to be literate in order to be able to text their friends, play most video games, read menus, and surf the web.

They also need to know arithmetic to be able to count their money and make change, tell time, bake recipes, plan ahead in strategy games, and many more things.

Beyond those basics, every student will learn different things. They won’t learn all the subjects on the standard curriculum, like chemistry, calculus, or Civil War history. But one student will become a history expert, another will be a math wiz, and another will become an authority on black hole physics.

Most amazingly, students will learn things we never knew, like how to make a stop-motion movie, how to climb a mountain, or how to create the next big social app.
But learning is not all about practical skills. Through real life, children learn the most important skills they will need, like how to get along with others, how to take risks and learn from failure, and how to set goals and accomplish them.
Freedom & Flexibility
The virtual program is designed to afford students and their families maximum freedom and flexibility is pursuing their personal goals and interests. Students have the ability to spend the amount of time in our virtual community that works best for them. The flexibility of the virtual program has allowed past students to travel internationally, volunteer locally, take college classes, get a job, miss time due to illness, start a business, pursue hobbies, play sports, take music lessons, and connect from just about anywhere. 
Safe & Welcoming
One goal for our virtual community is to be a safe and welcoming place. By this we mean that students should be free to be their true and authentic selves and still feel that they belong. In a safe community a student can participate without fear. In a welcoming community they can share their passions and interests, they can pursue their own goals and make their own choices and feel like they belong.

Part of achieving a safe and welcoming community is accomplished through rules. We have a Law Book, created through School Meeting, that enumerates the rules of the community. We also have a Discord Moderators Committee that monitors our virtual space and a Conflict Resolution Committee that addresses concerns and rule breaking.

Our primary method of maintaining a safe and welcoming community is cultural. Our students have embraced the idea that this is not the same kind of community you might find on the open internet. Our students want our space to be different. They want a space where they can be creative and silly and authentic without fear of bullying or abuse. 
Staff Advisors
It is not hard for students to find an Open School staff member in the virtual community. They serve as advisers, mentors, tutors, committee members, teachers, college counselors, trouble shooters. They hang out with students in the lounge, participate in activities, lead group advising, have open office hours, serve as server moderators, and attend School Meeting. 

Every student has an assigned adviser for one on one advising sessions but that is far from the only interaction they will have with Open School staff. The staff make it a point of being present and available to all of the students in the virtual community with the goal of helping them on their individual learning journey.