154 - How to Start a Microschool with Amar Kumar

The Teacher Career Coach Podcast

Daphne Gomez

Business, Education, Careers, Self-improvement

4.4 • 786 Ratings

🗓️ 27 August 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Amar Kumar is a former school teacher in India and the founder of KaiPod Learning, which is an organization that helps teachers start their own Microschools. In the past few years, Kaipod Learning has become the fastest growing Microschool network in the country, supporting dozens of teachers, and bringing their education dreams to reality. Learn more about KaiPod at kaipodlearning.com Free Quiz: What career outside of the classroom is right for you? Explore the course that has helped thousands of teachers successfully transition out of the classroom and into new careers: The Teacher Career Coach Course Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Teacher Career Coach podcast with your new host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:05.0	She started her teaching career in 2014.
0:08.1	She found she needed a career change after all the changes that pandemic brought to the teaching world.
0:14.0	So she transitioned outside of the classroom into an administrative assistant role and now works as an operations manager for a tech startup.
0:22.8	Get ready for discussions on all things related to teacher transitions, interview prep,
0:28.0	addressing burnout in the classroom, and so much more.
0:31.7	Here's your host, Elizabeth Sudo.
0:34.6	Welcome back to the Teacher Career Coach podcast. You can find us on all your social channels at
0:41.0	teacher career coach or on our website, teachercareercoach.com. I'm excited for you to listen to this
0:49.6	episode. If you are a teacher who is in the classroom and you're on the fence about leaving, maybe looking into another environment, this episode is for you.
1:01.8	Today, we get to speak with Amar Kumar Kumar. He's an education entrepreneur who's passionate about making learning more personal, social, and more engaging.
1:13.6	He's the founder of Kaipod Learning, which is an organization that helps teachers start their own
1:19.9	microschools. In the past few years, Kaipod Learning has become the fastest growing microschool network
1:27.1	in the country, supporting dozens of
1:29.9	teachers and bringing their education dreams to reality. In his past experience, he was a school
1:35.7	teacher in India, a principal, and the head of product for one of the largest online schools
1:41.5	in the country. I'm very excited for you to listen. I learned a lot
1:45.3	today about micro schools in the community and can't wait for you to see what you think. Welcome,
1:51.4	Omar. Thank you so much for having me. Well, we love to get started and hear a little bit about
1:55.8	your background. What got you into education in the first place? And can you tell us a little bit about your
2:01.8	experience in education? Happy to. Probably like most of your listeners, there was always a little bit of an
2:07.3	itch in the back of my mind that I wanted to help people learn. Even from when I was in middle
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