For over 20 years, I taught in traditional classrooms, so when I began offering small-group tuition, I honestly did not expect any surprises. After all, I knew groups. I had spent my career managing them, teaching them, and guiding them. But teaching small groups online through the Academy this term has surprised me in ways I did not expect, and in the best possible way. Before September, I had always described the main benefit of group tuition as cost. Parents split the tuto

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