NEW YORK – Jan. 30, 2012 –TeachersPayTeachers, the leading online marketplace for teachers to buy and sell original educational materials, today announced that its top seller has surpassed $500,000 in total earnings, with the vast majority earned in the last 12 months. Deanna Jump, a kindergarten teacher from Warner Robins, GA, crossed the $500,000 threshold with 88,671 lesson units sold to other schoolteachers across the country and around the world.
NEW YORK – Jan. 30, 2012 –TeachersPayTeachers, the leading online marketplace for teachers to buy and sell original educational materials, today announced that its top seller has surpassed $500,000 in total earnings, with the vast majority earned in the last 12 months. Deanna Jump, a kindergarten teacher from Warner Robins, GA, crossed the $500,000 threshold with 88,671 lesson units sold to other schoolteachers across the country and around the world.
“It's a wonderful validation of the concept that gave birth to TpT six years ago, that is, that there's immeasurable untapped value trapped inside real teachers who know better than anyone how to teach because they do it every day,” said Paul Edelman, former New York City schoolteacher and founder of TeachersPayTeachers. “We are so proud of Deanna and know that through her original curricular materials and her accomplishments on the site that she has inspired 10s of thousands of teachers, and it appears to only be the beginning.”
Deanna is one of over 500,000 registered users of the TeachersPayTeachers marketplace, which has generated over $4 million in supplemental income for teachers worldwide. While Deanna is an exceptional example, she’s not alone: more than 10,000 teachers are selling actively, four others have generated over $100,000 in supplemental income and dozens have earned over $30,000 to date selling their original lesson plans and other teaching materials.
According to Deanna Jump, “TeachersPayTeachers is an amazing platform where teachers can share what works best based on our own experience. It’s incredibly rewarding to know that I’m helping others save time and teach in new ways. And the extra income has of course been a huge blessing for my family.”
TeachersPayTeachers was founded in 2006 by Paul Edelman, a former New York City public schoolteacher. He has led TeachersPayTeachers from a self-funded start-up, through an early acquisition and divestiture by Scholastic, Inc., to become the world’s largest online marketplace for buying and selling K-12 teaching materials. He continues to run the company today.
TeachersPayTeachers was recently highlighted by Microsoft founder and philanthropist, Bill Gates, in his 2012 Annual Letterfor the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Gates calls TeachersPayTeachers a simple example of the power of community- and teacher-generated content as a basis for educational innovation.
About TeachersPayTeachers
Founded by a former NYC public school teacher in 2006, TeachersPayTeachers is an online open marketplace where PreK-12 teachers buy/sell/share original teaching materials. The site has grown to over 500,000 registered users and teachers have collectively earned over $4,000,000 to date.