Joe Liemandt
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
How do you engage this kid?
What are their interests?
And so our guides spend time getting to know the kids.
As an example, during the two-hour session, the kids do 25-minute Pomodoros.
During the math Pomodoro,
What the guide will do is pull the kid out one-on-one.
They're like, you're not going to do the math stuff today.
Come sit down and talk to me.
And the guide's going to be like, how was your weekend?
What happened?
Oh, did you win the softball game?
Whatever happened and get to know, not as engaged anymore, what's going on.
They talk through all of that with them.
And so they get to know the kids.
And we talk about there's Mount Alpha that you're climbing up and your guide is there to help the students get up the mountain.
People who love to do that are the ones you want to hire.
I guess a little segue also on that on just overall is we pay our guides a lot more at Alpha than standard teachers.
How much more?
Like what percentage more?
Our minimum pay for a teacher is $100,000.