Village Green Virtual Charter School opened in Providence, RI in September of 2013. Starting with grades 9 and 10 in the first year, the school grew to grades 9 through 12 in year three. VGV is the first of its kind in Rhode Island; a high school which uses a “blended learning” model of on-line curriculum and in-classroom teaching. Students are in "workshop" working with teachers about 40% of the time and on-line or in advisory and reading groups the other 60%. Teachers at Village Green work with students when there is a skill or strategy that cannot be mastered in the on-line curriculum. The major goal of the “bricks and mortar virtual school” is that teachers are freed from designing and assessing lessons and can turn their attention to targeting the learning needs of each student. Our school’s design places students in classes only when there is a skill or strategy they need to master.