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Teaching at Leizu Academy 嫘祖學院

For teachers who want a seminar to teach in

Leizu Academy is small by design. Teachers are met before they are added. Students are taught by people who actually want to teach them.

i. The arrangement

The numbers, plainly

Teachers at Leizu set their own availability and pricing within a recommended range. The platform handles booking, payments, scheduling, and the small administrative work around it. Sessions run online over Zoom.

80%
of session rate goes to the teacher.

The remaining twenty percent covers booking and payment infrastructure, the seminar-method training, the small platform overhead, and the work of finding and matching students. No student-side service fees. No commission cliff. No drop in your share when you bring in your own students.

For comparison, Wyzant takes about twenty-five percent and charges students an additional service fee on top. Outschool takes thirty percent. Preply takes anywhere from eighteen to thirty-three percent and keeps the entire trial lesson. Eighty percent at Leizu is the highest take-home rate of any tutoring marketplace serving the IB and OSSD market.

ii. What gets paid

Pricing and payment

The platform's standard rate is one hundred Canadian dollars per sixty-minute session. Teachers can negotiate above or below this rate based on subject, level, and demand. Bundles and the Forest year tier follow a discount schedule that lowers the per-session rate for the student and lowers the teacher's per-session rate proportionally. Teachers see exactly what they will be paid before each session is booked.

Payouts are weekly via Stripe Connect or Interac e-transfer. The platform handles HST collection and remittance where applicable. Teachers receive a T4A in January for the prior year's earnings.

The first three teachers added each year teach without commission for their first month. No platform cut on those sessions. This is the recruiting weapon. It is also a fair test of whether Leizu sends you students worth the eighty-twenty split afterward.

iii. What we look for

The hiring filter

Leizu is curated rather than open. Saul Nassau personally meets every teacher before they join. The filter is not credentials. The filter is whether the teaching is the kind a student leaves changed by. Four things we look for, in order.

i
A subject you actually love
Teachers who are still curious about the material teach better than teachers who are not. The subject should still be interesting to you.
ii
The seminar method
You host the inquiry rather than deliver the conclusion. Students do the reading before the session. The session moves through claims, counterclaims, and implications. If this is already how you teach, we will be quick to add you. If it is not, we will train you.
iii
Care for the student in front of you
Not in the abstract. The specific student. Their work, their habits of mind, the way they think when they are stuck. This is teachable but cannot be faked.
iv
Respect for the student's time and yours
Show up prepared. Hold your sessions. Cancel rarely and only when you have to. Reply to questions within twenty-four hours during term.

Subjects we are actively recruiting for: math at all OSSD and IB levels, sciences (IB Biology, Chemistry, Physics), French at IB and OSSD levels, languages other than the ones already taught at Leizu, and computer science. Other subjects welcome. Write and we will see if there is a fit.

iv. What you will not be asked to do

The list of nots

You will not be asked to grind on a treadmill of low-rate students. Leizu does not run on volume.

You will not be asked to write your own marketing copy. The school markets itself.

You will not be asked to teach to a script. The seminar method is a method, not a script.

You will not be asked to compete with other Leizu teachers for students. Students are matched, not auctioned.

You will not be asked to take on more students than you can teach well. The cap is honest.

v. How to apply

Write to Saul

Send an email. Include who you are, what you teach, where you have taught, and one paragraph on how you teach. If you have a CV or portfolio to share, attach it or link to it. If you have something written about teaching that I could read, send it. The more specific the better.

I read every email and reply within a few days. If we are a fit on paper, we will set up a call. The call is the actual interview. It runs about thirty minutes.

Write to Saul Nassau

Subject line: Teaching at Leizu Academy

saulnassau@protonmail.com

How sessions fit together

Each Leizu session is structured as roughly 40 to 45 minutes of focused work, a 5-to-10-minute break, then another 40 to 45 minutes of work. About 90 minutes total per session. When you are teaching multiple consecutive students, plan a 10-minute buffer between sessions in your calendar. This gives you time to wrap up notes from the session that just ended, rest briefly, and arrive present for the next student. Cal.com handles the buffer automatically once you set it on each event type; the platform will not allow back-to-back bookings inside the buffer window.

The buffer is not negotiable: students notice when their teacher is exhausted from the previous hour. A teacher running six consecutive 90-minute sessions with no buffer is offering the sixth student a different kind of session than the first. Plan accordingly when accepting bookings.