California Virtual Academies Reviews

- Low(ish) pay, but take that with a grain of salt--there are lots of non-financial benefits to this job - SO many systems to learn and work with, and they are ever-changing. However, this is not unique to CAVA. Being in the first decade or so of online education, this is just one of the kinks that hasn't been worked out yet. - Extremely high turnover for administration and co-workers. I have never seen turnover like this in any company. There is someone new in the administration or department every 2-3 months. - Mandatory in-person PD days, which are inconvenient and terribly inefficient.

This was a terrible place to work. Myself and several other teachers left shortly after the on boarding process. They expect the teachers to a lot more than 8 hours of work. The list of what is expected of the teachers is very long and impossible to get it all done. With the low pay and the long hours, I was making less than minimum wage. I sent an email to my admin and I'll I got was, I know it's hard to prioritize at first but you will learn what needs to be prioritized. That is it, that is all I got. It wasn't a prioritizing problem it was way to much work expected problem. The on-boarding is very long with lot of useless trainings. There are videos that you have to watch about how to dress and making sure that your earrings match your outfit. There is a video about driving, yes you have to watch a video about driving when it is a virtual school. Also while doing all of the training, you have to do contracts for all of your students. I had 40 students assigned to me. First you fill the contracts out, which is a huge and complicated process. Next, you send those contract out to the parents and hope the parent signs it correctly. If they don't then you have to keep calling and pestering the parent. After sending the contracts out you then have to call all the parents (that was 40 phone calls). Most don't answer the first time so you have to keep calling. All phone calls must be documented and noted what was said to the parent. Plus this is on a timeline. All phone calls to parents must be completed before the first week of school. Then there is the teaching. While doing the on boarding training, contracts, and phone calls, you also have to plan on what you will be teaching. All lessons needs to have slides. So you will have to create a lesson plan and slides to match all of your lesson plans. That is very time consuming. Of course if students are not showing up for class then you have to call the parents. A good chunk of parents didn't give a care about their child and if they showed for the lesson. Don't forget to document the phone call. The work never stopped. I tried my best to keep up but I was working from sun up to way past sun down.