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Meet Our Staff

Max Bertola, Director and President
(Park City, Utah)

Max's dream has been to create an online learning experience that is superior to what students get in a face-to-face classroom. Since 1995, he has been developing the curriculum for his online educational offerings. Max developed the first online course offerings for Utah State University and Utah Valley University.

Max holds a Masters of Science in English from Utah State University where he graduated from the Technical Writing and Professional Communications Program. He teaches three to four English composition courses a semester at Utah Valley University where he developed an award winning web-based composition program. In addition, Max was awarded the "Teacher of the Year" in the English program of our 90+ instructors.

Max also has taught for the past 4 years at the Corrections Academy for the Utah Department of Corrections where he instructs new officers the skills needed to write quality reports. At the Department of Corrections, he spent time with the inmates developing an Inmate-to-Inmate literacy program where inmates taught other inmates basic reading, writing, and comprehension skills. Utah Governor Mike Leavitt presented Max a Medal of Commendation for Max's work in developing this innovative program.

Over the past six years, Max has developed the iInstructor Virtual Classroom technology as well as developed all of the student tracking software, course management software, and he has overseen all of the curriculum development for the school.

Governor's Commendation

National Web-course
Development Award

Teacher of the Year

Master's Degree
Technical Writing

Lance, Manager of Operations and Student Support Services

(Orem, Utah)

Lance attended Utah Valley University where he specialized in Organizational Implementation of Technology. He is a technology guru and understands how to manage an operation using state-of-the-art technology. He also has developed the majority of our computer science offerings.

Shane, Manager of Finances and Student Admissions
(Orem, Utah)

Shane attended Brigham Young University with his focus on Business Finance and Strategy. He manages the online databases tracking our prospective students. He has also worked in developing our Adult High School offerings.

Mari, Admissions and Curriculum Specialist
(Park City, Utah)

Mari handles general admissions and support questions for the school. She also is responsible for the admissions for our elementary and junior high offerings. Also, Mari handles all of the graphic design needs of the school.

Mari attended Utah Valley University where she specialized in graphics design. Mari is a mother of nine and a grandmother of nine.

Mike, Instructor Social Studies (High School Certified)
(Orem, Utah)

Mike teaches full-time at Timpanogos High School in Orem, Utah. He is state certified in the social sciences that includes history, world history, geography, civics and government, sociology, and psychology.

Mike develops curriculum and works to answer student questions.

Bob, Instructor Foreign Language - Spanish (High School Certified)
(Orem, Utah)

Bob has his Masters in Education and teaches Spanish at a local charter school. Bob has worked diligently to provide an aggressive and engaging Spanish curriculum.

Stephen, Instructor English (High School Certified)
(Thousand Oaks, California)

Stephen holds his Masters in Education from Mt. St. Mary's College in Los Angeles, and go his B.A. with a secondary teaching certificate from Gonzaga University. He specializes in Speech, Philosophy, and Critical Thinking.

Claire, Curriculum Development and Editing
(San Antonio, Texas)

Claire is key in or organization to overviewing curriculum - specifically the elementary and junior high programs.

Ben, Information Technology
(Portland, Oregon)

Ben has been with us since the start in 1995. He has his degree in Computer Science and specializes in Java programming developing all of our database programs. Everything dealing with our virtual classroom, student tracking, and live support systems has been overseen by Ben.

Patti - Instructional Design
(Manti, Utah)

Patti has her degree in Instructional Design and has developed our Elementary and High School offerings. She has years of experience developing integrated and engaging curriculum.