The Academy for Virtual Teaching
Makers gotta make, Teachers gotta TEACH!
Who Are We?
The Academy for Virtual Teaching
is a vibrant and supportive community of
Professional • Proficient • Profitable
Quilt, Craft, and Art Teachers
Designers and Shop Owners
We are a community of professional online educators, sharing the joy of art, quilting, needle arts, crafting, and other hands-on creative arts with a worldwide audience through educational video.
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.
We Invite You to Join Us
Transform your passion into a profitable, sustainable, scalable business through virtual teaching.
Free Membership Plan
Free to all hands-on creative arts virtual teachers, designers, brand ambassadors and shop owners
General group discussions (a lot like Facebook without any of the yuck!)
Monthly open roundtable discussions held live via Zoom
Monthly guest seminars with industry experts where members can "ask the pros anything"
Themed discussions where we engage in thoughtful conversations that lead to better educational video making practices
Member spotlight articles featuring an up-and-coming virtual teacher
Polls, quick questions
Equipment reviews
Business resource recommendations
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 crafting to the VIRTUAL world. We grow our skills, grow our audience, grow our love for our audience, 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!
If you are a shop owner or designer serving a creative/maker audience, you've found your people!
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:
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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!
