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Teaching at Leizu Academy 嫘祖學院

For teachers seeking a serious place to teach

Leizu Academy stays small by design. Teachers are met before joining, and students learn with people who care about teaching.

i. The arrangement

The numbers, plainly

Teachers at Leizu set their own availability and pricing within a recommended range. The platform handles booking, payment, scheduling, and routine administration. Sessions run online through Zoom.

80%
of session rate goes to the teacher.

The remaining twenty percent covers booking, payment infrastructure, seminar method training, platform costs, and student matching. Students pay no separate service fee. Your share stays the same when you bring 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 pay no commission for their first month. Those sessions carry no platform fee. The first month gives both sides a clear test of the work and the student match.

iii. What we look for

The hiring filter

Leizu selects its teachers carefully. Saul Nassau meets every teacher before they join. The central question is whether a student leaves the work changed by it. Four qualities guide that decision.

i
A subject you actually love
The subject should still matter to you. Teachers who remain curious about their material teach it with greater force.
ii
The seminar method
You host the inquiry. Students arrive having read, then work through claims, counterclaims, and implications. Teachers already working this way can join quickly. Others receive seminar method training.
iii
Care for the student in front of you
Care begins with the student in front of you. Their work, habits of mind, and way of thinking when stuck all matter. This care can be developed and has to be genuine.
iv
Respect for the student's time and yours
Arrive prepared, keep your sessions, cancel only when necessary, and reply to questions within twenty four hours during term.

Leizu is recruiting mathematics at all OSSD and IB levels, IB Biology, Chemistry, Physics, French, additional languages, and computer science. Other subjects are welcome. Write with your area and we will see whether there is a fit.

iv. What you will not be asked to do

What the work protects

Leizu protects teachers from volume quotas and low rate churn.

The school carries the core marketing work.

The seminar method gives a structure for inquiry while leaving room for your judgment.

Students are matched with teachers. Leizu does not turn teaching into an internal auction.

Student loads are capped at the level each teacher can serve well.

v. How to apply

Write to Saul

Send an email with who you are, what you teach, where you have taught, and one paragraph on your method. Attach or link a CV, portfolio, or writing on teaching when you have one. Specific detail helps.

I read every email and reply within a few days. Strong applications lead to a 30 minute call, which serves as the interview.

Write to Saul Nassau

Use the subject line “Teaching at Leizu Academy.”

saulnassau@protonmail.com

How sessions fit together

Each Leizu session has 40 to 45 minutes of focused work, a 5 to 10 minute break, then another 40 to 45 minutes of work. Plan a 10 minute buffer between consecutive students. It gives you time to finish notes, rest, and arrive present for the next student. Cal.com applies the buffer once it is set on each event type and keeps back to back bookings outside that window.

The buffer is required. Students feel the difference when a teacher carries exhaustion from one session into the next. Accept bookings with that standard in mind.