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Optima
Optima is an education experience company blending classical liberal arts learning with immersive VR and AI-powered technology. We serve independent schools, public schools and districts, microschools, and home learners through Optima Academy Online, our fully virtual school offering teacher-led and self-paced classical liberal arts instruction. Our team works 100% remote, built on a culture of trust and flexibility that lets our people do great work while maintaining real work-life balance.
Purpose
Our purpose is to enhance student engagement and strengthen academic achievement across all learning environments through immersive technology.
Vision
Our vision is to introduce our scholars to the good, the true, and the beautiful — in our curriculum and in the world around them — using spatial computing to make that pursuit active, immersive, and memorable. We want our scholars to participate meaningfully in the ongoing conversation of a liberal arts education, becoming stewards of that tradition and architects of its future.
Mission
Our mission is to deliver an excellent education rooted in timeless ideas — pairing a classical liberal arts curriculum with immersive spatial computing technology that brings history, literature, and big ideas to life, all within a genuine and inspiring community of teachers and scholars.
Additional Culture Details
At Optima, we blend timeless ideas with modern tools — bringing classical liberal arts education to life through immersive VR and AI-powered learning experiences. Our team is united by core values: Integrity, Excellence, Professionalism, Service, Team, and Mission Focus.
We're a 100% remote team, and our culture is built on real trust and flexibility. Our Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy means that if you're meeting your responsibilities, you have the freedom to manage your own schedule — no rigid accrual system, no clocking hours just to prove you're working. We believe genuine work-life balance makes for better teachers and a better team.
We also invest heavily in our people from day one: new teachers get hands-on professional development — including a self-paced learning hub, live lesson demos, and an in-person retreat with the whole faculty — before ever stepping into a virtual classroom.
Above all, we're mission-driven. Every person at Optima is working toward the same goal: bringing an excellent, virtue-centered education to students, wherever they are.
We're a 100% remote team, and our culture is built on real trust and flexibility. Our Flexible Time Off (FTO) policy means that if you're meeting your responsibilities, you have the freedom to manage your own schedule — no rigid accrual system, no clocking hours just to prove you're working. We believe genuine work-life balance makes for better teachers and a better team.
We also invest heavily in our people from day one: new teachers get hands-on professional development — including a self-paced learning hub, live lesson demos, and an in-person retreat with the whole faculty — before ever stepping into a virtual classroom.
Above all, we're mission-driven. Every person at Optima is working toward the same goal: bringing an excellent, virtue-centered education to students, wherever they are.
Values
- Integrity
- Honest, ethical, and trustworthy in every interaction
Headquarters
Naples, FL
Employees
150 US Employees
Industry
Education - Other
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