Selling Lesson Plans Online

Zoe Fox:

Teaching isn't known to be a lucrative profession, but online marketplace Teachers Pay Teachers is changing that for some educators.

Deanna Jump, a kindergarten teacher from Georgia, has made $700,000 selling her lesson plans on Teachers Pay Teachers, an ecommerce startup where teachers offer their lesson plans to fellow educators.

Paul Edelman, the founder of Teachers Pay Teachers, created the platform following a four-year stint as a New York City public school teacher.

"I had an insight that the materials teachers created night after night had monetary value, so I set out to create a marketplace called Teachers Pay Teachers," Edelman told Mashable. "Teachers are now making a pretty significant supplemental income and creating higher quality materials."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 18, 2012 1:43 AM
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