PA Distance Learning Blog

PA Distance is always honored to educate talented students across the Commonwealth. From creative inventors and entrepreneurs to blacksmiths, athletes and dancers PA Distance makes sure our students receive quality education and support while they pursue their dreams. One of these outstanding students is 7th-grader and World Junior Dance Champion Katya Storchevaya.

When she’s not attending live class, completing asynchronous assignments, or interacting with her teachers and peers, she is traveling the world for dance competitions. With the flexibility PA Distance offers, Katya can excel within the virtual classroom without compromising her successful dance career.

3rd-grader, Alice McCoy and her mother, Lis McCoy, first experienced virtual learning during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. After learning online through a brick-and-mortar school, Alice and her parents decided to transition to a school with more experience in cyber education. Their search brought them to PA Distance Learning Charter School in the fall of 2020.

PSSA and Keystone testing season is a significant undertaking here at PA Distance. As a cyber charter school, things look a little different, and the planning, requirements, and testing process reflects the uniqueness that lends itself to a virtual school. It is also an additional opportunity for students to form and strengthen relationships with their classmates and even their teachers. 

A significant misconception that often attaches itself to cyber schools is that students have no social interaction with their classmates or teachers. However, that couldn’t be further from the truth at PA Distance. 

The ”Core 4” is made up of four behaviors that PA Distance feels students need in order to be successful in school and in their personal lives. Students are instructed and rewarded for completing tasks and showcasing behaviors themed around these positive four habits: organization, self-advocacy, working independently, and attendance.