KaiPod Learning (YC S21) Is Hiring

About KaiPod Learning

Are you a creator who wants to interchange the field of education? Now not factual tinker on the facets, but undoubtedly change the fashion that formative years learn? At KaiPod Learning, we’re embarking on this substantial quest, and buying for a passionate, gallant, and modern fellow adventurer. If this sounds equivalent to you, read on!

KaiPod Learning provides an fully unusual studying expertise for K-12 college students. Our college students bolt at their absorb tempo by a comprehensive curriculum, find 1:1 give a relish to from a dedicated Learning Coach, and pick up section in centered enrichment activities each day.

Our model is a weird likelihood for families and novices who need more from their public education system. We feature by bringing collectively KaiPods, small groups of college students paired up with a qualified Learning Coach. College students and Coaches work collectively to construct their rental, form their studying, and prepare enrichment activities that carry the curriculum into the staunch world.

We’ve developed an fully unusual technique to blend small-neighborhood instruction with on-line studying tools. In a KaiPod, college students pick up an tutorial expertise that’s more deepest than old skool colleges, more social than on-line colleges, more comprehensive than micro colleges, and all at a section of the price of private colleges!

We’re buying for passionate creators who favor to support carry out the fashion forward for studying as we bolt mercurial in direction of delivery in Tumble 2021.

Relating to the position

This isn’t your old skool college model, nor is it your old skool after-college program.

As chief of KaiPod Lecturers & Enrichment team, you are going to be developing an fully unusual studying expertise that blends on-line and in-person studying in unusual solutions. We’re buying for of us who are passionate about creating a weird model, as a change of factual executing on one which’s already been constructed for them. Some of your responsibilities will comprise:

• Develop out the KaiPod Learning Pupil Experience, alongside with how we blend on-line studying with in-person supports, accumulate in project-primarily primarily based studying, and provide immersive enrichment activities aligned to varsity students’ pursuits
• Utilize time with our college students and fogeys to deeply perceive their wants and construct the forms of experiences that can be highly participating and effective
• Possess and put into effect a technique to recruit, hire, and prepare KaiPod Learning’s top quality of Learning Coaches at some stage within the Boston space
• Build aside up your complete class of Learning Coaches, providing them opportunities for observation, feedback, and ongoing respectable vogue
• Reinforce the delivery of KaiPod Learning in Tumble 2021 to more than one areas at some stage within the Boston space and adapt mercurial to student feedback so we are able to refine the model

To land this gig, you are going to favor to:

• Demonstrate you are as passionate about helping college students as we’re. You don’t favor to were an educator, but you attain favor to care about education.
• Be open to interchange; we’re building one thing new and we can learn as we carry out. We need someone who likes checking out hypotheses, knows learn the technique to manufacture info-pushed choices, and isn’t afraid to be proven terrible.
• Maintain expertise hiring, leading, and developing educators; our affect will likely be by the Learning Coaches you prepare so it’s undoubtedly foremost that it’s possible you’ll well have demonstrated success here.
• Maintain expertise creating curriculum and enrichment activities, in particular incorporating project-primarily primarily based studying or other modern forms of education.
• Realize our target fogeys and college students and love how they fabricate choices. You don’t have to be a guardian your self, but are you able to bear fancy one? Are you able to bear fancy a heart-schooler? What excites them? What bores them?

And at final, we’re an education company working with formative years and altering the trajectory of their lives. We don’t relish this accountability lightly. To prevail, we’re buying for candidates who are highly accountable, entrepreneurial, respectable, and have ethics above reproach.

Relating to the team:
A foremost section of joining any early-stage startup is the team you’ll be working closely with.

You are going to epic straight to Amar Kumar, the Founder & CEO. Amar has been in education for 15+ years, having been a teacher, a college predominant, an education consultant, and most no longer too lengthy within the past, the Chief Product Officer for Pearson’s Online K-12 division. In these roles, Amar purchased a first-hand scrutinize of the struggles confronted by K-12 college students and their families. These experiences led him to commence KaiPod Learning, confident that studying could well also be made more deepest and more social.

As well to Amar, you’ll be working with colleagues and company advisors who are experts in education, marketing, product management, and strategy. And, we can all scrutinize to learn loads from you in the case of participating college students and taking studying into the staunch world!

Technology

We exhaust the expertise supplied by on-line charter colleges at some stage within the nation. Most normally, these are supplied by Pearson Online & Blended Learning or Strive, Inc.