Teachers make extra money selling educational materials online

Associated Press:

Kristine Nannini spent her summer creating wall charts and student data sheets for her fifth-grade class -- and making $24,000 online by selling those same materials to other teachers.

Teachers like Nannini are making extra money supplying materials to their cash-strapped and time-limited colleagues on curriculum sharing sites such as teacherspayteachers.com, providing an alternative to more traditional -- and generally more expensive -- school supply stores. Many districts, teachers and parents say these sites are saving teachers time and money and giving educators a way to make additional income.

There is potentially a lot of money to be made. Deanna Jump, a first-grade teacher at Central Fellowship Christian Academy in Macon, Ga., is teacherspayteachers.com's top seller, earning about $1 million in sales over the last two years. She believes that the site has been successful because educators are looking for new ways to engage their students, and the materials are relatively inexpensive and move beyond textbooks

"I want kids to be so excited about what they're learning that they can't wait to tell Mom and Dad," she said.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at November 5, 2012 1:59 AM
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