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title: Making the Grade Podcast featuring KaiPod Learning
description: Are you a teacher who wants to transition into creating your own microschool? check out this blog post from making the grade podcast featuring founder Amar
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# [Making the Grade Podcast featuring KaiPod Learning](https://blog.kaipodlearning.com/making-the-grade-podcast)

 Written by [Amar Kumar](https://blog.kaipodlearning.com/author/amar-kumar) | Oct 30, 2023 2:56:37 PM

## A Conversation with Amar Kumar, Founder & CEO of KaiPod Learning

 

 

**EP 018 | KaiPod Learning***: a conversation with founder & CEO, Amar*

“I want to try something different” is the sentiment that began a new classroom model & organization for educators. With experience teaching in the US & India, Amar has spent many years in many different classroom models and roles. A fellow Boston-based founder, Amar Kumar, shares how he went from trying to meet all students’ needs to creating a space where students lead their learning through goal setting and coaches support their pathways in a classroom community. 

A former high school teacher and school principal, Amar took his passion for education and translated it into KaiPod Learning. KaiPod now empowers more parents to choose microschools for their children and supports teachers in launching their own microschools across the country.

This episode covers: entrepreneurship, microschools, & teachers looking to try something different. Amar’s approachable demeanor in creating an intrinsically motivated classroom & empowering students to take control of their learning has yielded some impressive results. Listen up if you are itching to try something new this school year!

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