Jeff Herr was a Fulbright Scholar to Brno, Czech Republic in 2006 studying secondary education in the Czech system. He has a master’s degree in educational administration from the University of Utah, and has just been accepted to law school in the University of London’s International Program. He is entering his nineteenth year as an educator and fifteenth year as an administrator. Herr is currently the head of school for the Utah Virtual Academy (UTVA), the first virtual charter school in the state of Utah and the largest charter school in Utah with over 2,000 K-12 students in all corners of Utah and from all demographics. UTVA uses a completely virtual model, with a curriculum provided by K12 Inc. The school has passed Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) in each of its first two years, and all students in its first graduating class are currently enrolled in college.