Teachers Pay Teachers Explained

Teachers Pay Teachers is an online marketplace and an American educational website for buying and selling educator resources. It focuses on a PreK-12 audience. Founded in 2006 by Paul Edelman, a former New York City public school teacher, Teachers Pay Teachers has over 2.6 million active users with sales exceeding $60 million.[1] In 2012, Teachers Pay Teachers revealed that a teacher has made over $1 million in profit from the marketplace. 10 years later in 2022, it announced that there are more than 300 teachers that have gone on to earn at least $1 million in profit from Teachers Pay Teachers.[2]

Teachers Pay Teachers was acquired by IXL Learning on March 2, 2023.[3]

Teachers Pay Teachers has incorporated other products, such as Easel by TPT, into its core functionality. Easel is an interactive lesson creator and LMS (Learning Management System) for teaching and assessing students.[4]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Teachers are earning millions of dollars selling their lesson plans on the iTunes of education . November 2013 . Pando . 2020-09-11.
  2. News: Where are all the millionaire teachers? . Sullivan . Emily Tate . 2022-11-29 . Fast Company . 2023-10-16 . A few years later, in 2012, TPT revealed that a teacher on the platform had earned more than $1 million in profits. News coverage of that savvy seller went wild. Then, the company announced, another educator had reached the milestone. As of 2015, there were 12 “millionaires” thanks to Teachers Pay Teachers. Today, more than 300 teachers can claim that status, having earned at least $1 million in profits from their online stores, according to the company. Some of those teachers have earned tens or even twenties of millions of dollars from their sales..
  3. Web site: IXL Learning Acquires Teachers Pay Teachers, the World's Largest Platform for Educator-Created Content . 2023-03-03 . finance.yahoo.com . en-US.
  4. Web site: Easel by TpT Interactive, device-ready, digital tools to engage students . 2023-03-24 . www.easelbytpt.com . en.

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