Making An Impact In Student Lives Years Later

Synchronous online teacher Megan Kraft received an email from a student from a previous school year thanking her for teaching him. She explains, “He was a student who was very quiet and very shy in class. I tried so hard to connect with him and get him to participate and answer questions.”

The student felt the effort Ms. Kraft put into their relationship, so he emailed her over a year later to tell her how much that meant to him. She says, “It was so wonderful to see that I did make that connection, and I was able to reach him. [...] It’s so nice to know that this shy, quiet student was really there, was really listening, and I was able to make that connection with him. Hopefully, that gave him some confidence in math, and it will propel him forward.”

Proximity Learning enables young learners to receive a more equitable education by bringing content-certified teachers into classrooms virtually.