26 - Running an Online STEM Training Business While Working as the IT Manager for an Online Public School with Ryan Rasar

Join our Facebook group for ‘Educator Entrepreneurs’: https://www.facebook.com/groups/EducatorEntrepreneurs/

 

Today was another fantastic chat in our ‘Educator Entrepreneurs’ series. Ryan Rasar started his career as an architect before going back to school for his teaching license. He moved to teach in an online school before moving to admin to become an IT manager for the school. In his spare time, he founded stemqwest.com, a website selling STEM lessons. We talk about a lot of things including:

• What it's like working for an online school
• How Ryan had a huge growth in business in the recent Covid19 crisis
• How Ryan has now grown his business to the point where he could leave his job but how he likes his work and colleagues so keeps working there
• Ryan's advice for budding educator entrepreneurs

 

I hope you enjoyed the podcast and if you did please leave us an iTunes review it really means a lot to us!

 

Some links:

STEMQwest: https://www.stemqwest.com/

Ryan on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rrasar/

 

Listen on: iTunes / Podbean / Stitcher / Spotify / YouTube

 

Welcome to The International Schools Podcast,  I’m your host Dan Taylor and on the podcast we discuss all aspects of technology and life in International Schools with New episodes live every two weeks. We focus on people currently working in International Schools and talk about life in their current country and dive into some specific topics.

 

This podcast is brought to you by Acer for Education. People ask us what Chromebooks and Windows laptops we recommend for schools and after trying them all we always recommend Acer. If you’d like more info please just your email at gg.gg/acereducation and we’ll get back to you.

 

We go to Acer HQ in Taiwan every year to be part of product discussions and they are genuinely the best thought out, cost-effective, and durable devices out there.

 

This podcast is also sponsored by ‘AppsEvents’. We’re a Google Education Partner and made up of former educators, all experts in helping schools integrate Google into their schools and classrooms. All training is customized for each school to make sure it has a lasting impact. We are also the experts on online Google training and deliver our certification bootcamps completely online to schools.

 

We have teams in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and the US so we can help you wherever you are.

 

We are also an ISTE partner and delivering the ISTE Certified Educator worldwide through our subsidiary AE Learning.

 

ISTE Certification is a pedagogy focused, vendor-neutral professional certification aimed at educators wishing to transform their edtech practice.

 

We run 2-day certification bootcamps which are amazing fun, great networking, and will give a huge boost to both your career and your school. Get all the info at aelearninglab.com