59. Global Online Academy

As a founding member of the Global Online Academy (GOA), Dalton is one of 75 top independent schools worldwide offering this innovative online resource for elective courses for students.

As a founding member of the Global Online Academy (GOA), Dalton is one of 75 top independent schools spanning the globe — including Japan, China, Jordan, South Africa, Indonesia, Europe, and peer institutions across the United States — offering this innovative program to students.

The mission of GOA is to reimagine learning to empower students and educators to thrive in a globally networked society. GOA students commit up to seven hours per week for a single class, each capped at 18 students. Teachers and students, who are located across multiple time zones, gather synchronously and asynchronously, collaborating on assignments, projects, and discussions.

Students can choose from a broad range of electives such as Advocacy, Architecture, Music Theory & Digital Composition, Advanced Topics in Economics, Climate Change and Global Inequality, Entrepreneurship in a Global Context, Social Psychology, Game Theory, IOS App Design, Neuropsychology, Global Health, Applying Philosophy to Modern Global Issues, Comparative Politics, Genocide and Human Rights, Arabic Language Through Culture, Prisons and the Criminal Law, Number Theory, and more.

Dalton students have found the interactive GOA courses to be challenging, relevant, and communal. They say that these online classes complement Dalton’s curriculum and that they value hearing the perspective of classmates from other countries and cultures.

We always look for ways to present new ideas and offer wider perspectives to broaden and deepen our curriculum; we feel privileged to be part of GOA and to be able to provide our students with this quality online learning resource.
—Jim Best, Head of School