🎧How to navigate the online high school route successfully

Considering having your child attend an online high school and wondering how to make it work? Wayne Langridge, CEO and founder of WFA Online High School, discusses value-driven education, developing entrepreneurial skills, and attending online classes in real time. He emphasises growing children’s self-esteem and letting teachers feel heard and valued, and explains how challenges like social interaction can be met in an online context. Sponsored content.

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In ep 247 of the weekly podcast series Calm, Clear & Helpful, Wayne Langridge - founder and CEO of WFA Online High School - considers

• what led him to found WFA: 1. the importance of devoting one day per week to mental well-being 2. transferring experience and 3. “teaching learners to fish”

• why academics is both very important and very unimportant

• Wayne’s vision for WFA Online High School: to be the best, and why 😉

• differences between online and bricks-and-mortar schools

• why WFA learners attend classes in real time

• benefits of online schooling, including convenience, safety, flexibility for – for instance - sports achievers, and accommodating children with emotional constraints

• how WFA navigates typical online schooling challenges such as social interaction, extra-mural activities, expanding learners’ world view, and engagement and supervision

• the responsibilities of 1. the school 2. parents and 3. learners

• having teachers who buy into the school’s model and feel heard and valued

• supporting the development of learners’ self-esteem

• guiding learners toward the realisation that gr. 8 to 12 is a window of opportunity that will shape the rest of their lives

• why WFA teachers are shareholders

• the best time to enrol your child.

In this episode, Wayne mentions Steve Biko by Donald Woods.

About Wayne

Wayne Langridge is the founder and CEO of WFA Online High School, CEO of WFA Consult, financial adviser, and entrepreneur based in Midrand. He is a motivated leader focused on changing future generations through value creation and education.

About WFA Online High School

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Original music by Mart-Marie Snyman

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