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Teachers Pay Teachers

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PreK–12th grades

Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) is an online marketplace where educators sell and share original teaching materials, from single worksheets to full-year curricula. Resources span all subjects and grade levels, often created by classroom teachers who tested them with real students. Homeschoolers and teachers appreciate the huge selection, instant downloads, and the ability to support educators directly. It’s especially useful when you need a targeted unit, project, or practice set on a specific skill. Quality and alignment can vary, so reading previews and reviews is important before purchasing. Most items are low-cost, and there are many free resources, making it easy to experiment without a big investment. For best results, build a small, curated library of favorite creators whose style fits your students, rather than downloading dozens of untested files you may never use.

Best for families who already have a big‑picture plan and want flexible, creative supplements—seasonal projects, lab activities, writing prompts, or niche electives tailored to a child’s interests.

Pros

Huge marketplace of teacher‑created printables and units, including many explicitly secular homeschool stores; great for grabbing targeted activities, unit studies, labs, and graphic organizers to plug specific gaps without buying a full curriculum.

Cons

Quality, rigor, and worldview vary widely; reviews and previews don’t always show everything you need to know; it’s easy to overspend on lots of small pieces instead of choosing a coherent spine, and some sellers’ content has sparked political controversy.

Many charter‑school homeschool programs allow families to use school purchase orders or reimbursements for TPT purchases, especially when ordered through approved school accounts, but policies differ by program and region.

Lots of free options available if you filter by free. Prices can range from free to $20 and up for more popular curricula.

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Teachers Pay Teachers Mission

Teachers Pay Teachers’ mission is to unlock the collective wisdom of educators by making it easy for teachers to share, discover, and earn income from high-quality classroom resources. The marketplace gives PreK–12 educators access to millions of lesson plans, activities, and assessments created by their peers, so families and schools can benefit from materials that have been tested and refined in real classrooms.

Teachers Pay Teachers Story

Teachers Pay Teachers was founded in 2006 by New York City public school teacher Paul Edelman, who noticed that his students learned best when he borrowed ideas and materials from colleagues. Realizing that teachers everywhere were reinventing the wheel in isolation, he created an online marketplace where educators could upload their original resources, set their own prices, and share what worked. Over time, TpT grew from a tiny side project into the world’s largest platform for educator-created content, with millions of users, teachers earning full-time incomes from their stores, and new tools like Easel for interactive digital lessons—eventually joining forces with IXL Learning while keeping its teacher-centered mission.

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On a planning evening, you might curl up with your laptop, search “4th grade fractions escape room,” skim previews and reviews, and then, after purchasing, download a colorful PDF that you print, cut, and tuck into folders so the next day your child is solving fraction puzzles around the living room with a clipboard and timer.

Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT) is an online marketplace where educators buy and sell downloadable resources such as worksheets, projects, slide decks, centers, and assessments across all grades and subjects. Homeschool parents create a free buyer account, search or filter by grade and topic, purchase individual resources or bundles, and then print or assign materials as part of their daily plans.

Parents or caregivers choose the materials, handle purchasing and printing, and usually act as the primary instructor, though some digital products are designed for more independent student use.

None for parents beyond basic comfort with online shopping and PDFs; resources themselves list target grades and prerequisites for students, which you match to your child’s level.

Teachers Pay Teachers is a marketplace rather than a single program, which means families can find specialized materials for dyslexia, autism, ADHD, and more—along with resources of variable quality. Parent curation and previews are crucial; look for sellers with strong reviews and materials that match your child’s sensory and cognitive needs.

TPT has a limited refund policy: in general, all sales are digital and final, but the platform will approve refunds for accidental duplicate purchases within a set time window and may consider other requests on a case‑by‑case basis via customer support.

Not a fit for parents hoping TPT alone will provide a complete, consistent K–12 curriculum, or those who don’t want to sift through reviews and vet resources for accuracy and bias.

Alternatives include dedicated secular curricula, open educational resources (OER), library and museum materials, and subject‑specific memberships like Glitterbombers, Art History Kids, or Homeschool Languages.

New resources are uploaded daily by classroom teachers and specialists, and TPT continues to roll out features like Easel activities, school subscriptions, and better search and preview tools to help families find what they need.

Follow a short list of trusted creators whose style you’ve vetted, set a clear budget, and only buy resources that align with goals you’ve already defined for the year so TPT stays a tool, not a distraction.

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Meet Paul

Paul Edelman is a former middle-school literacy teacher from New York City who founded Teachers Pay Teachers after seeing firsthand how powerful it was to borrow lesson ideas from fellow educators. With classroom experience in some of the country’s largest public schools, he understood both the creativity and the time pressures teachers face, and he envisioned TpT as a way to honor teachers’ expertise while giving them a new income stream. Paul later brought on leaders like CEO John Yoo to help scale the company, but his original “by teachers, for teachers” ethos continues to shape how the platform serves educators and families.