Cyber school shows off class rooms to legislator
By GAIL MAHOLICK gmaholick@tnonline.com

Commonwealth Connections Academy (CCA) opened its doors last week to give Speaker of the House, state Rep. Keith McCall, a peek into the world of virtual schooling.

McCall met with 14 teaching staff and administrators who comprise the Lehighton CCA location at 613 Blakeslee Boulevard Drive East. It's at this location where kindergarten teacher Meghan Demshick shares her virtual classroom with 42 students, who are logged on live on their home computers. She prepares lesson plans, and shares activities, poems and stories through circle time and teaches her young students beginning math lessons about six times a week.

"We do a lot of fun things," said Demshick. She added that many people don't believe that 5-year-old children can learn through computer-based teaching, but she has proof that it has helped them learn.

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