Michigan Virtual

Founded in 1998, Michigan Virtual™ is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that is leading and collaborating to build learning environments for tomorrow. Driven by student success, they have a strong record of supporting Michigan education that spans more than two decades.

Michigan Virtual’s Student Learning Services offerings boast a student pass rate more than 20 percentage points higher than Michigan’s statewide average for virtual learning, and their student catalog includes more than 250 high-quality online courses for middle and high school students, including:

  • Core subject areas
  • Career-oriented electives
  • World languages
  • Credit recovery and alternative learning courses
  • Advanced Placement courses

In addition to student courses, Michigan Virtual offers a wide variety of Professional Learning Services options for educators. They partner with many of Michigan’s leading educational organizations to create professional development courses that address the most pressing issues facing educators today, with topics including:

  • Social emotional learning
  • Anti-racist and trauma-informed instruction
  • Supporting students with disabilities
  • Literacy essentials
  • Online and blended teaching
  • And more!

The research arm of their organization — Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute (MVLRI) — conducts original research, tests innovations in learning, and promotes effective instructional practices. This team is constantly gauging educator needs and prototyping new programs to address pervasive challenges facing Michigan’s K-12 community.

Michigan Virtual’s Consulting Services works locally and nationally to incorporate all of the aforementioned offerings in service to innovating school and districts.With decades of lived experience in K-12 innovation, our bench of current and former school leaders are ready to work side-by-side to make set and transform vision for student learning into reality.

Jamey Fitzpatrick

President and CEO

Jamey Fitzpatrick has served as a catalyst for change and a champion of innovation in public education. As both an education and technology policy advocate, Fitzpatrick provides strategic leadership for Michigan Virtual™ — a private nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization that partners with over 500 Michigan K-12 school districts to provide students with high-quality online courses and educators with affordable professional development opportunities — as well as the Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute®, a center for online learning research and innovation.

Jamey Fitzpatrick