Thanks to Jennifer Carolan of Reach Capital for making the suggestion and NGPF Intern Ren Makino for adding a select set of our Data Crunches, Case Studies and Projects to Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) website.  In case you were wondering…all of our content will continue to be free on TPT (apparently 80% of the content downloaded by teachers on the site is FREE!).  With almost 10 million visits a month, the TPT platform will be a great way for us to expand our educator community. Assuming our test goes well, we look forward to increasing our content over time.

For those of you with limited knowledge of Teachers Pay Teachers, here is some info from NY Times:

Teachers often spend hours preparing classroom lesson plans to reinforce the material students are required to learn, and many share their best materials with colleagues. Founded in 2006, TeachersPayTeachers speeds up this lesson-plan prep work by monetizing exchanges between teachers and enabling them to make faster connections with farther-flung colleagues.

As some on the site develop sizable and devoted audiences, TeachersPayTeachers.com is fostering the growth of a hybrid profession: teacher-entrepreneur. The phenomenon has even spawned its own neologism: teacherpreneur.

To date, Teacher Synergy, the company behind the site, has paid about $175 million to its teacher-authors, says Adam Freed, the company’s chief executive. The site takes a 15 percent commission on most sales.

About the Author

Tim Ranzetta

Tim's saving habits started at seven when a neighbor with a broken hip gave him a dog walking job. Her recovery, which took almost a year, resulted in Tim getting to know the bank tellers quite well (and accumulating a savings account balance of over $300!). His recent entrepreneurial adventures have included driving a shredding truck, analyzing executive compensation packages for Fortune 500 companies and helping families make better college financing decisions. After volunteering in 2010 to create and teach a personal finance program at Eastside College Prep in East Palo Alto, Tim saw firsthand the impact of an engaging and activity-based curriculum, which inspired him to start a new non-profit, Next Gen Personal Finance.