Upcoming Conferences: Melanin Village I am so excited about this and got a treat for you! The Melanin Village has gathered some of the most influential voices in black home education for The Homeschool Together Conference and yours truly will be participating! I want to tell y’all to go on and register now. The conference […]
My background in education was formed from a traditional public school perspective. I took what I knew as a student, gathered information from my college courses, and used insights from my student teaching and observations when I developed my courses, my lesson plans, and my curriculum. Then, I had to unlearn a lot of what […]
As families are scrambling to decide what they are going to do about their child’s education, homeschooling is becoming a part of that conversation. Online teaching platforms are experiencing a surge in new enrollments as parents are looking for supplementary courses, some are deciding to start their homeschooling journey and opting out of sending their […]
“How much should I charge?” This is a question I get inboxed often. Before I work with a client, I always ask my own questions: Do you charge what you are worth? How do you determine your worth? They typically have problems answering these questions, so I change my question and ask: Do you find […]
I get this question daily in my DMs, PMs, and emails. It is not a one size fits all answer. I make over 10K a month teaching online, both on Outschool and on my personal site. My highest earning month was in March. Pre-COVID I was making three times less, but I was also working […]
I started tutoring in college as an AmeriCorps member. Tutoring helped me finally answer the question, “What do you want to be when you grow up?” I wanted to be an artist but I also wanted to work with youth as an educator. I completed my B.A. in History and African/African-American History. My M.Ed is […]
Outschool vs VipKid There are has been a large influx of VipKid teachers venturing to teach on the Outschool platform. Both platforms utilize online technology to educate children, but there are some major differences. VipKid teaches children English with ready-made class material and Outschool has a variety of classes from academic to extracurricular. While there […]
While there are currently pockets of panic going on across the world, I have been getting calls, texts, and emails about online classes. People aren’t just reaching out about the classes I offer, they’re ready to take on the virtual world of education. Or, they’ve sat with me and made their online course but they […]
When I first found out about Outschool, I was teaching my private students online, working for VipKid, and another online tutoring company. Someone in the VipKid Facebook group mentioned Outschool but complained that it was too difficult because they were used to a pre-made curriculum. Coming from a teaching background, I already knew how to […]