Lansing – Melanie Laber is a busy woman. Besides maintaining a household and raising a seven year old daughter with her husband, Melanie teaches math daily to 160 seventh graders at Hartland Middle School as well as geometry and trigonometry to 80 more students from all over Michigan online for Michigan Virtual School. In addition she earned a master’s from the University of Phoenix and is pursuing a doctorate degree through Capella University, both online schools. (Her area of focus on her doctoral program: “Instructional design for online learning.”) Melanie has designed many of Michigan Virtual School’s math courses in the past and is currently putting together an online probability and statistics class. She has taught online methods classes to nearly 200 Michigan teachers.