<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><rss xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" version="2.0"><channel><title><![CDATA[The Outside Academy]]></title><description><![CDATA[The Outside Academy]]></description><link>https://www.theoutsideacademy.com/blog</link><generator>RSS for Node</generator><lastBuildDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 08:56:07 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://www.theoutsideacademy.com/blog-feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title><![CDATA[Story Time: Why I Love Online School ]]></title><description><![CDATA[-I'm talking even prior to the pandemic. My undergraduate education was unenthusiastic, to put it mildly. I quite literally played "eeny, meeny, miny, moe" and picked what I thought would be a good major for myself: advertising. I was very wrong. When I say I learned close to nothing, I mean it. I took a slew of courses where I studied and memorized facts from textbooks, took exams and passed, but really didn't retain much. In fact, I got away with barely attending college at all; I became so...]]></description><link>https://www.theoutsideacademy.com/post/story-time-why-i-love-online-school</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a71634374653e170f8d1ebc</guid><pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2026 07:46:50 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_c51540abac6e4d2c81df68ac8b6ceebb~mv2.jpg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>michelleprodanovic</dc:creator></item><item><title><![CDATA[The Beginning of the Outside Academy]]></title><description><![CDATA[Phew...where do I start? I've been working in education nearing twenty years, and to put it mildly--I've seen some things. Much of what I experienced was wonderful, but there were some major deficits in education, and I'm including public, charter, and private schools in this conversation. As a teacher, there was nothing more that I loved more than connecting with students and helping them succeed, but on the flip side, I also was forced to graduate students from high school who could barely...]]></description><link>https://www.theoutsideacademy.com/post/the-beginning-of-the-outside-academy</link><guid isPermaLink="false">6a6bba6ddc0c1fe07d443b57</guid><pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 02:39:35 GMT</pubDate><enclosure url="https://static.wixstatic.com/media/11062b_f50ef699e0264fb783192fdebff6f4a0~mv2.jpeg/v1/fit/w_1000,h_1000,al_c,q_80/file.png" length="0" type="image/png"/><dc:creator>michelleprodanovic</dc:creator></item></channel></rss>