Hiya, sisters! We are excited to bring this week’s episode to your earbuds because we know we have oodles of Outschool fans in the Sisters community. And if you haven’t heard of Outschool yet, you’re going to want to pull up a chair and get comfy for a second because we might just rock your homeschool world.
In this week’s episode, we welcome Amir Nathoo, founder and CEO of Outschool. What a fun conversation it was! We chat about education, learning, and the sheer joy of a personalized education. Amir shares his experience with a traditional educational path and how alternative educational paths, like the homeschool movement, have helped to shape the Outschool experience. We also discuss how a child’s uniqueness, or quirkiness, is something to treasure and how this uniqueness might transform into desired skills when our kiddos enter the job market.
The Importance of Personalized Learning, with Amir Nathoo, Founder and CEO of Outschool [Episode 140]
Please Welcome Amir Nathoo, Founder and CEO of Outschool, to The Homeschool Sisters Podcast
Amir Nathoo is CEO of Outschool, a marketplace for live online classes for K-12 learners. Amir worked at Square, leading the development of Square Payroll. Previously, he served as CEO and co-founder of Trigger.io, a development platform for creating native mobile apps. He holds an MEng in Electrical and Information Sciences from The University of Cambridge. Amir lives in San Francisco with his wife, Kirsty, and their two children.
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The Importance of Personalized Learning [Episode 140]
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