Traditional classrooms don’t work for all high school students, some of whom may travel, work long hours or have young children at home.

Recruitment and Enrollment Coordinator Kristie Ingram works with Guided Online Academic Learning, an online public school, which allows flexible schedules, individualized attention and pursuit of personal and education goals. The academy also allows students the opportunity to pursue dual high school and college credits.

“We are a statewide public charter school,” Ingram said. “So, we’re all over. We have mobile classrooms we drive all over the state.”

Ingram brought one of the mobile classrooms to Pioneer Park Friday to help Alan Van Norman, a GOAL teacher, with a Battle of the Bands memorial benefit for the families of Abelina Gallegos and Lacey and Jessica Dunovsky, who recently were killed in a rollover accident.

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