Two former teachers, three cups of tea, and a market most outsiders never get into.
We are Mark and Alice, two former online English teachers. For five years we taught Chinese children with no platform in the middle: we found parents on RedNote, ran everything through WeChat and kept families for years.
We know this closed market from the inside, and TripleTea Academy is where we share it: what parents really ask, what works, and what quietly loses a family. Every example comes from real chats with real parents.
How we got here
- July 2021
The market disappears
Large EdTech platforms lose their licences, tens of thousands of foreign teachers lose their jobs overnight. Parents lose prepaid lesson packages.
- 2021 – 2022
Going solo
Demand didn't vanish, it moved to RedNote and WeChat. We started finding families ourselves and working with them with no middleman. Platforms have their advantages, but working directly turned out to be even more comfortable: every decision was ours, and we agreed on everything with the families ourselves.
- The ceiling
More families than hours
Our schedules filled up, and families kept writing. There were more of them than two teachers could ever take.
- Sharing it
Other teachers ask how
Teachers we knew started asking how we did it. We helped them find their first families, and over the years more than 30 of them went solo.
- Today
TripleTea Academy
We've packed five years of practice into the Teach Solo guide, for teachers ready to go solo on their own.
How we take our tea
No one in the middle
Platforms and agents take up to half of a teacher's rate. We show how to work with families directly, so the full price stays with the teacher.
Proof over promises
Screenshots in our guide are real conversations, shared with the consent of the teachers we helped. No invented case studies.
Adapt to the parent
WeChat, not email. ClassIn, not Zoom. Yuan, not dollars. The teacher who fits into the family's world wins.