Who Are We?

The Academy for Virtual Teaching is a vibrant and supportive community of

Professional • Proficient • Profitable

Quilt, Craft, and Art Teachers 

We are a community of professional online educators,  sharing the joy of quilting, needle arts, crafting, and other hands-on creative arts with a worldwide audience through virtual workshops and lectures.

As entrepreneurs, businesspeople, and teachers we generously support each other in this community as we further develop our technical expertise and hone our online teaching skills, becoming more proficient, profitable, and professional virtual teachers.

UPCOMING FREE ACADEMY EVENTS

Virtual Teaching 101

Live Q&A sessions, March 21, 22, 23

This workshops is always available to any AVT members. Live Q&A sessions are offered 2x each year.

Join Virtual teacher Lyric Montgomery Kinard, a long-time expert on virtual teaching. This FREE 3 session mini workshop will help you understand the basics of what you need to get your virtual workshops up and running. Lyric will walk you through how to structure and translate your live workshops into virtual offerings in the most efficient and cost-effective manner.

Join the Academy and VT101 HERE

5 Day Promotional Video Challenge

Join the Academy and the

5-Day Promo Video Challenge HERE

Lessons and Live Q&A Sessions
March 20 - 24

The Academy for Virtual Teaching invites you to join us for a 5 day Promo Video Challenge. Create a short demo video to teach or advertise your products or workshop, using only your phone!

This challenge includes five days of lesson and tutorials and three LIVE coaching/Q&A sessions with Lyric Montgomery Kinard.

There is nothing better than a short demo video to really speak to your audience. Video will draw your audience in and create a more personal connection in as they see how much you love what you do.

You can create:

• Introduction video - giving an overview of all the things you teach. Audience = hiring entities such as guilds that are looking for lectures and workshops.
• Demo video - teach a short technique or project, give individual students a taste of what your workshop will be like.
• Product or shop advertisement - introduce retail customers to your store or a specific product, get them interested and invite them to come in and/or purchase an item. 

We'll make it easy and fun, using nothing more than your smart phone. Join your colleagues and challenge yourself to GET THIS DONE!

Join the Academy and the

5-Day Promo Video Challenge HERE

We Invite You to Join Us

Transform your passion into a profitable, sustainable, scalable business through virtual teaching.

The Academy for Virtual Teaching Free Membership

The Commons

• Free to all hands-on creative arts virtual teachers 

• General group discussions (a lot like Facebook without any of the weirdness)

• Monthly open roundtable discussions held live via Zoom

• Monthly guest seminars with experienced virtual teachers where members can "ask the pros anything"

• Themed discussions where we engage in thoughtful conversations that lead to better virtual teaching practices

• Member spotlight articles featuring an up-and-coming virtual teacher

• Polls, quick questions

Library

• Equipment reviews

• Business resource recommendations

Professional Development Membership

A paid membership with access to live monthly workshops, quarterly challenges, zoom practice sessions, and live coaching sessions

Invest in Your Business!
Join the
Professional Development Membership HERE

College of Continuing Education

• Monthly live short courses designed to help you strengthen your business

• Available via paid monthly membership or Á La Carte

• Live Zoom practice sessions

• Discounts for workshop listings at GlobalQuiltConnection.com and a4vt.com - let us help you find more students for your open enrollment classes

• Task oriented live co-work sessions

• Guest seminar archives

• Quarterly challenges, 5 day "get it done" business task oriented events with live coaching

• Full library of past event and workshop recordings

Study Hall

• Accountability groups

• Special interest groups by topic, such as the type of workshops members offer, or the specific on-demand course platform they use

Virtual Teaching Masterclass

Registration Opens March 20th, Course Begins April 3, 2023

• Offered live each year

• 8-week intensive course for virtual teachers, designed to help you build a virtual teaching business

• Extensive practical tutorials on every part of the business: platforms, equipment, video filming and editing, marketing, newsletters, contracts, administration, etc.

• Multiple group coaching session with every lesson

• Opportunity to use the AVT platform to build your first on-demand course

Certification Program

• Available to anyone who is teaching live zoom courses, program is sponsored by the AVT but membership is not required. 

• AVT Teacher Certification, providing accreditation and proof of proficiency

• Designed to assure guilds that the virtual teacher they are hiring is proficient with live technology

• Any teacher (member or not) can apply for certification

• Adjudicator reviews website and audits your live class

• Certification badge links back to web page that lists qualifications- use it anywhere

• Guilds are eager for this, as they want to be confident that the teacher they are hiring can provide the highest quality of virtual programing

• Click HERE for more information.

Overcome your fear of technology, reach a global audience,
create a sustainable, profitable business!

We Invite You to Join Us Now

Here at the Academy, we work together to create a cadre of skilled professionals who bring our love of quilting to the VIRTUAL world. We grow our skills, grow our audience, grow our love for our students, and grow our income through scalable online offerings.

If you are an in-person quilt, craft, or art teacher (or aspire to be one) and want to build a global audience through online workshops, we invite you to join us! All are welcome and all are supported here at the Academy. We help and lift each other as colleagues, no matter our experience level, as we continually learn about the ever-changing technology that lets us bring our offerings to our students in their own homes.

Taking your in-person workshops into the virtual world can help you grow your income without adding to your workload, and leave you more time for actually making the things you love!

If you aren't ready but want to stay in touch:
Sign up for our newsletter HERE

Campus Culture

Welcome to the Academy! We are all colleagues. As entrepreneurial business creators, we are both student and professor, mentoring and supporting each other on a continual journey toward proficiency, profitability, and professionalism.

• All are welcome and all are supported here at the Academy. We respect each other at all levels as professional colleagues and continually discover and openly share our knowledge with each other.

• Our community is open, honest, safe, and trustworthy. We build each other up rather than compete. We strongly believe that a rising tide lifts all ships and we support each other's biggest, wildest, most wonderful dreams.

• We actively share our knowledge with each other and realize that our wide variety of experiences are all valuable. None of us are ever finished learning and we often learn by asking questions. We freely share our knowledge and curiosity here at the Academy.

• We love short polls and weekly questions. They only take a moment to answer but often spark some pretty interesting and thoughtful conversations that lead to better virtual teaching practices.

In other words, this is the BEST place for you as a virtual teacher to be!

The Academy is ever evolving.
Join us as we create this open, honest, safe, and trustworthy community.

We are an active community where teachers can safely learn from each other's experiences. We strongly believe that a rising tide lifts all ships and we support each other's biggest, boldest, most wonderful dreams