Brad Rathgeber is the Director of the Online School for Girls, a non-profit consortium of independent schools, which he helped found in 2009. Brad has worked for the past few years to create an independent school model for online education, one that favors dynamic relationships between teachers and students, a collaborative approach to learning, and student-centered approaches. Instead of relying on curriculum already created, the Online School for Girls creates its own curriculum and hires great independent school teachers as instructors. Brad also helped the Online School for Girls to create a successful professional development program.