Meet our team
Meet our Administrators
Oklahoma Virtual Charter Academy (OVCA) leadership is committed to empowering our school community and providing students with high-quality learning experiences.
Audra Plummer | Head of School
Audra has served as OVCA's head of school since 2019. Previously, she served as deputy head of school. Audra was part of the first team of educators who brought Stride K12-powered schools to Oklahoma. She has served as classroom teacher, lead teacher, and elementary principal in the virtual setting. She has more than 25 years of experience in brick-and-mortar and online education. She began her career as a classroom teacher serving Norman Public Schools. She earned her BS in elementary education in 1994 and a master's degree in instructional leadership and academic curriculum in 2000. Both degrees are from the University of Oklahoma. In 2004, she obtained national board certification. Audra is also involved with the Oklahoma Writing Project, which is part of the National Writing Project. This network of educators strives to increase literacy by equipping teachers with strategies and research to better serve students.
Karin Campbell | Elementary School Principal
Karin Campbell is the elementary principal for grades K–2. She has been with OVCA since 2012. She has been a homeroom teacher, interventionist, lead teacher, and the elementary assistant principal. She is married with two daughters and two dogs. She loves to go camping, read, and travel in her spare time.
Heather Miles | Elementary School Principal
Heather Miles is the elementary principal for grades 3–5 at OVCA. She holds a bachelor's degree in elementary education from Northwestern Oklahoma State University and a master's degree in educational leadership from the American College of Education. She taught third and fourth grade in brick-and-mortar school before making the transition to OVCA. In her eight years with Stride K12, she has served as a MS Language Arts teacher, MS PE teacher, MS lead teacher, School Data & Accountability Manager, and spent a year with the Stride K12 Data Team.
Erin Goodridge | Middle School Principal
Erin is the middle school principal. She graduated from Lebanon Valley College in 2001 with a BS in music education and a BA in music. She also earned her Master of Music Education degree in 2016 from her alma mater. She started at OVCA as middle school music and art teacher in 2014 and moved to assistant principal in July 2019. After filling in as interim in spring of 2020, she became principal for OVCA's middle school in May. Erin resides in Tulsa with her husband, Ted, and their three children, Madison (6), Mason (5), and Evelyn (3). This is her 7th year with OVCA, and she plans to pursue a master's degree in educational leadership. When she isn't performing her principal duties, you will most likely find her teaching and practicing piano, reading a good book, or watching science fiction!
LeAn Sanders | High School Principal
LeAn Sanders is the Principal at OVCA. She worked at OVCA for three years and then helped with the start up of ISOK and was there for three years. She returned in 2021 back to OVCA and began working as the Vice Principal. She has been in the field of education for approximately sixteen years. She was a teacher for the deaf, a special education teacher, biology teacher, school counselor and now a Vice Principal.
LeAn earned her BS degree from Tulsa University in Deaf Education, she went on to get her Masters in Human Relations from the University of Oklahoma and her PhD in psychology from Capella University. She also is a Licensed Professional Counselor. She has been a LPC for the past sixteen years. LeAn has worked in several fields, which she says has helped her in her present field of education.
Cady Looper | Student Support Administrator
Cady is the student support administrator for OVCA. Cady graduated from Oklahoma State University in 2004 with a bachelor's degree in elementary education. She has spent more than 16 years working in education. She joined OVCA in 2010 and taught elementary for five years before transitioning to lead the student support services team (made up of CFAs) in 2015.
Barbie Sloan | K8 Standard Specialist
Barbie Sloan is the K8 standard specialist. She works with teachers and administrators to help incorporate best practices. She has been with Stride K12 since 2012, of which four years were spent directly with OVCA. Before joining Stride K12, she taught for eight years in elementary schools in Oklahoma and Texas.
Katherine Young | Director of Special Programs
Katherine Young is the director of special programs. She graduated from Oklahoma State University in 2007 with an elementary education degree. She has been in education since 2007 and with Oklahoma Stride K12 schools since 2015. She started her teaching career in Ponca City as a 3rd grade teacher before moving to the elementary school curriculum specialist role. She was a kindergarten teacher at OVCA for two years, and the Title I coordinator for one year. Katherine is passionate about education and watching students grow.
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