E142 - Teaching WordPress to Get Students Hired (Courtney Robertson, learn.wordpress.org)

In today's episode, Joe talks to Courtney Engle Robertson, a WordPress teacher dedicated to helping businesses streamline their online marketing. She has been teaching basic through advanced software, hardware, and social media uses in plain English for third graders through grandparents, including businesses and bootcamp students since 2001.   Courtney reveals the unlimited passion behind the Learn WordPress community where volunteers contribute educational resources to share with professionals that are seeking to upscale their skills.   Episode Resources: Learn WordPress Contribute to Learn WordPress, visit Get Involved Check Code Differently  Here's Courtney's website Courtney is on Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, and Github Leave an Apple podcast review or binge-watch past episodes Send questions to [email protected] for the next Q&A pod Visit the WPMRR website   What to Listen For: 00:00 Intro 02:09 Welcome to the pod, Courtney! 05:02 Teaching programming in educational institutions 10:22 Summer camp for high schoolers to learn WordPress 17:39 The challenges of teaching programming in schools 21:29 There's no clear map for people who wants learn tier 2 tech support 23:23 Contributions at Learn are mostly from volunteers 26:13 Motivation behind WordPress learning voluntary contributions 30:12 Identifying needs and keeping the team together 32:19 Tapping in to the web dev area can be tricky 37:08 Taking subcontract developer job 39:26 Identify where you are lacking and what to learn next 42:04 What's the best way to learn new skills? 45:54 Find Courtney online!