MEET YOUR HOST
Misty Miller | Misty Miller - Teacher Seller Strategies
How to Use Your Store Stats to Make Smart Decisions
Session Description: Your data is trying to tell you something - are you listening? In this session, you’ll learn how to read your TPT store stats so you can stop guessing and start making confident, informed decisions. We’ll break down what your views, conversions, and earnings really mean (without the overwhelm!) and how to use that information to update products, plan new resources, and focus on what’s truly driving your growth. Walk away with simple, repeatable steps to track your progress and use data as your secret weapon for a thriving TPT business.
Bio: Misty Miller is a former teacher and full-time TPT Seller with a love for helping other sellers live a life they want to have. Misty works with sellers to start and grow their TpT stores. She provides advice along the way through her TPT seller courses, Teacher Seller Academy, and her FB group TPT Seller Tips and Advice.
SPEAKERS & SESSIONS
Products, Listings, & Your Store
Becca Rice | The Teacher Rewrite
The Listing Glow-Up: How to Turn Old Products Into New Profits
Session Description: Got products sitting in your store that you know could be selling better? In this session, I’ll walk you through “The Listing Glow-Up”—a simple system to refresh your covers, previews, and product descriptions so they actually attract buyers and convert. You’ll get a step-by-step checklist plus batching strategies to make updating your listings feel doable, not overwhelming. Walk away with a plan to turn old products into new profits—without creating anything new from scratch.
Bio: Rebecca Rice is a former high school ELA teacher and founder of The Teacher Rewrite, a company dedicated to helping teachers learn how to become successful sellers on Teachers Pay Teachers so they can make more money and gain the financial freedom to do what they want. With over four years of TPT experience, Rebecca has doubled her sales each year since opening her store and she wants the same success for you. Together, let Rebecca help rewrite your teaching story to include financial freedom and the joy of doing what you love.
Game On! Creating Interactive Canva Templates that Market Your TPT Store
Teresa Kwant | Teresa Kwant
Session Description: Want to attract more eyes to your TPT store and give teachers something they’ll be excited to download and share? In this session, you’ll learn how to harness the power of Canva to create interactive freebies like digital games, choice boards, and slides, that double as engaging classroom tools and powerful marketing assets. We’ll walk through step-by-step strategies for designing interactive templates that not only showcase your products but also build trust with buyers, grow your email list, and drive repeat traffic to your store. By the end of the session, you’ll leave with practical Canva design tips, interactive template ideas you can implement right away, and a plan to turn your creations into traffic-driving lead magnets that boost your conversions.
Bio: Teresa Kwant is an educator, curriculum designer, and platinum seller on Teachers Pay Teachers. With over 13 years of experience creating engaging resources for classrooms worldwide, she specializes in game-based learning, interactive projects, and seasonal activities that make teaching both fun and effective. A former sixth-grade teacher with a technology endorsement, Teresa now empowers educators by designing innovative lessons, sharing practical strategies, and teaching fellow teacher-authors how to grow their own creative businesses.
Kirsten Hammond | The Southern Teach Designs
6 Product Cover Mistakes New Sellers Make
Session Description: Are you struggling to get clicks on your resources? Chances are, your product cover might be sending the wrong message. This session breaks down the six big cover mistakes new or beginning sellers might make. This session also shares with you simple, actionable tweaks to transform your covers into professional, click-worthy designs.
Bio: Kirsten Hammond is a teacher-turned-business owner who became an active seller while also working full-time in the classroom. She is now a work-from-home mom of three who provides curricula and resources for upper elementary teachers, with a thriving business that has met multiple TPT milestones and generates consistent 4- and 5-figure months. Her goal is to empower and inspire TPT sellers by giving them the know-how and creative spark they need to build businesses they are truly proud of. She loves to keep it real, share valuable info, and stay fueled by endless inspiration (and coffee).
Beyond Keywords — Building a Reputation That Brings Teachers Back
Kimberly Lund | Adapted by Kimmie D
Session Description: Getting more eyes on your store is only part of the puzzle—the real magic happens when teachers see you as the go-to person in your niche. In this session, I’ll share how to lean into what you know, create resources that actually solve problems, and show up consistently so teachers trust you. And when they trust you, they’ll keep coming back to your store again and again.
Bio: "Kimberly Lund is an early childhood special education teacher with over 25 years in the classroom and more than a decade as a TPT seller. Like many teachers, she started creating resources because she couldn’t find what really worked for her students—and that decision grew into Adapted by Kimmie D, a store focused on adapted books, SEL activities, and visual supports designed for neurodivergent learners.
Kim is also the creator behind Mattress and Broccoli Design, a line of worksheet and cover templates crafted with accessibility in mind, so other sellers can create resources that work for all students. Her unique perspective comes from balancing two worlds: teaching full time and running a growing business.
She believes that embracing your niche isn’t about limiting yourself—it’s about leaning into your strengths and building trust with teachers who need exactly what you offer. Through her work, Kim helps other sellers see that creating with purpose not only makes resources stronger, it also builds loyal customers and lasting impact."
The Power of Quality over Quantity: Growing a Profitable TPT Store Without Hundreds of Products
Sara Ordonez | Overthinker Teacher
Session Description: In this session I’ll share from my personal experience how focusing on quality over quantity helped me grow my TPT store into the Top 1% with very few resources. I’ll walk you through the actionable strategies I use myself: creating resources that solve real teacher problems, using data and market research to know what to make next, designing previews and covers that actually convert, and niching down so your store stands out. You’ll leave with practical tips and a fresh mindset on how to attract buyers, boost conversions, and build a thriving TPT business without burning out.
Bio: Hi, I’m Sara, the teacher behind Overthinker Teacher. I’m a fourth-grade teacher turned TPT seller and coach who has built a Top 1% store that now impacts thousands of teachers and students.
When my husband and I were barely making ends meet on my teaching salary, I turned to Teachers Pay Teachers looking for a way to create financial freedom. What changed everything was realizing that success doesn’t come from pumping out endless products—it comes from creating high-quality resources that solve real problems for teachers. That strategy has allowed me to have A TPT business that generates steady, scalable income without burning out.
Now I coach other teachers who want to cut through the noise, grow with confidence, and build a business that actually supports the life they want.
Engagement Sells: How to Create Resources Teachers (and Students!) Can’t Wait to Use
Amanda Zieba | The Word Nerd
Session Description: Want to make your TpT resources irresistible to teachers and their students? In this session, I’ll share my I.M.P.A.C.T. framework — six simple, high-leverage strategies you can weave into any product to boost engagement and make your resources classroom favorites. You’ll learn how to make your activities Interactive, add Multisensory elements, connect to Personal Interests, get students up and moving with Action, add Challenge through gamification, and surprise them with a Twist that keeps curiosity high. Using real examples from my own best-selling resources like Mystery Quote and the Would You Rather video/argumentative writing series, I’ll show you exactly how to apply each step to your own products. You’ll leave with practical, ready-to-use ideas that increase student engagement, teacher satisfaction, and repeat sales.
Bio: Amanda Zieba, the founder of the Word Nerd Collaborative, a middle school ELA teacher membership, is an author, educator, content creator, and student engagement expert transforming the educational experience for teachers and students. Amanda has worked with educators around the world to increase student engagement and achievement while also helping tired teachers take a few things off their very full plates. With her Master's degree in education, additional reading teacher certification, and nearly two decades in the education field, Amanda has become a go-to expert for her peers. Her insights have been featured in The Week Jr., Nerdy Book Club Blog, the ASCD bulletin and she has presented at educational (and writing) conferences, workshops and retreats across the country. You can learn more and connect with her at www.amandaizeba.com
Re-Thinking Bundles
Angie Kratzer | Angie Kratzer
Session Description: Catapult your store growth by getting creative with bundles. Learn how to make new ones that are outside the box and optimize the ones you have!
Bio: Angie is a retired high school English teacher who spent 18 years in the classroom and three years as Secondary ELA Writing Curriculum Specialist for a large school district in North Carolina. In the summers, she taught ESL in Budapest, Hungary. Angie has since focused on teacher staff development and TPT seller coaching, which has given her the flexibility to parent her adopted son (an 8th grade hurricane!) and support her husband's brick-and-mortar business. She started selling secondary ELA resources on TPT in 2009 and learned quickly that bundles are the best way to experiences steady growth year over year.
Becky Collins | Smiling Students Lesson Plans
Get More By Growing Your Store: KPIs and Beyond!
Session Description: Are you interested to see more store growth? Dive into this session full of ideas that will help to increase store growth, motivation, and more. Learn about key performance indicators for growth to attract buyers, increase sales, and enjoy more satisfaction with your store. Hear an inspirational account of store growth, be motivated, and pick up ideas that will help boost sales and profit. See you in the session!
Bio: Becky has a master's degree in education and a bachelor's in elementary education. She has been teaching for over 17 years. Now she teaches online and manages her TPT store, Smiling Students Lesson Plans. She has been selling teaching tools and education materials for over 5 years with 400+ products available including reading, math, science, seasonal products, religious items, and more! Several of her children's books are available on Amazon KDP. Becky has been interviewed on the Shared Teaching podcast. She participates in teaching associations and CE credits. Her interests include the beach, exercising, music, friends, and travel. She has played piano since 4 years old and taught piano lessons during college. Check out her store today!
Sarah Wu | Speech Therapy is Beautiful
Basic SEO for Teacher Sellers
Session Description: Learning the basics of keyword research can help you make new products and write blog posts to keep your store in front of the right customers.
Bio: By day, Sarah Wu is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Speech-Language Pathology at Lewis University. By night, she runs her own online business where she creates resources, manages a blog, runs a storefront, and builds community through email list. Over the years, she’s learned how powerful search engine optimization (SEO) can be for getting content in front of the right audience. In this session, Sarah shares quick SEO wins that you can start doing right away to make your content more discoverable -even if you’re not a tech expert.
Marketing
Creating an Intentional Content Plan with Your Products at the Center
Amy Hughes | One Stop VA Shop
Bio: Amy started her teacher seller journey in 2012 with Teaching in Blue Jeans. After hitting multiple TPT milestones and expanding to other platforms, she discovered that she loves supporting fellow teacherpreneurs just as much as helping teachers. In 2016, Amy began helping TPT sellers as a virtual assistant, and today she leads a team of former teachers turned virtual assistants at One Stop VA Shop. Together, they support clients with blogging, email & social media marketing, product creation, TPT SEO, and more. Amy also offers one-on-one business coaching, blending her classroom experience and business expertise to help teacherpreneurs grow with confidence.
Session Description: Are you ready to get more eyes on your products through the use of long-form blog content? Whether you are new to blogging or have an established website, this workshop will help you make sure you have a solid foundation in place. In this workshop, you will learn how to make intentional choices about the blog content you create. Together we will create a blogging content plan that puts your products at the center, allowing you to connect with and nurture your audience in a way that feels authentic and not salesy.
Melissa Seideman | Not Another VA
How to Start an Email List
Session Description: Ready to build a direct line to your audience, clients, or customers? An email list is the most powerful tool for growing your business or brand. This session will demystify the process, walking you through the essential steps to launch your list from scratch. We'll cover everything you need to know, from choosing the right email marketing platform and creating a sign-up form to crafting your first "lead magnet" and promoting it effectively. Leave this session with a clear, actionable plan and the confidence to start building your most valuable asset today.
Bio: Melissa Seideman is the CEO of Not Another Virtual Assistant (NAVA), a company she founded to empower entrepreneurs to scale their businesses through strategic email marketing. She built NAVA into a multi-six-figure business while working as a full-time history teacher and raising two young boys, a journey that fuels her passion for creating efficient systems and impactful automation. A self-taught entrepreneur, Melissa is dedicated to helping her clients reclaim valuable time, build strong customer relationships, and achieve their full potential.
Sales Pages: A new approach to getting your products in front of your buyers
Carla Fedeler | Site Designs for You
Session Description: Struggling to get your products in front of your buyer's eyes with search? Sales pages may provide you with the longform content you need to work with ads, emails, and Google Analytics. Set up the page once, and you can use it for all sorts of purposes! This session will show you a variety of sales pages and how they work.
Bio: Carla started her journey with websites back in 2012 through Comprehension Connection, her TPT related website (Blogger to Wordpress), where she continues to share teaching strategies and resources. After working with other TPTers through collaborative websites and multiple website revisions of her own from 2012 to 2020, she decided to launch her website business with Site Designs for You. She's now in year five and works full time at maintaining and designing sites for local clients and other TPTers. She truly enjoys the process and has many happy clients.
Jenzaia DiMartile | JD Teacherpreneur Marketing
Retargeting Like A Pro: Using Paid Ads To Say Top-of-Mind for New (and returning) TPT Store Traffic
Session Description: Retargeting ads are a cost-effective way for TPT sellers to maximize visibility, re-engage interested visitors, and build long-term customer relationships through email list growth and repeat exposure. In this session, Jenzaia will walk you through easy-to-follow strategies, including choosing the right ad goals, setting a budget that fits, and finding the best audiences, for three must-have retargeting ads.
Bio: Jenzaia helps established course creators, membership owners, and summit hosts grow their email lists and boost sales using paid ads. As a teacher turned Meta ad strategist, she’s spent 5+ years in the trenches learning what actually moves the needle for teacherpreneurs (and what just burns ad spend). When she’s not mapping out ad funnels or playing with spreadsheet formulas, you’ll probably find her harvesting veggies from the garden, sipping Earl Grey tea, and pretending she only kind of likes penguins.
Monica Lopez | Online Business for Teachers
Beyond TPT: How to Grow Your Income With Bundles, Collabs & Email Sales
Bio: Monica Lopez is the founder of Online Business for Teachers and the host of the Online Business for Teachers Podcast. After about 20 years in the classroom as a bilingual and ESL teacher, Monica discovered the power of creating and selling her own teaching resources. What started as a side hustle on Teachers Pay Teachers quickly grew into a thriving business that allowed her to support her family while doing work she loves.
Now, Monica helps other teachers turn their expertise into sustainable income streams. Through her podcast and coaching programs, she equips teachers with practical strategies for streamlining their business systems, and overcoming mindset blocks that often hold them back. She is passionate about showing teachers that they don’t have to stay stuck in burnout or overwhelm—there are ways to build a business that feels aligned, impactful, and profitable. When she’s not recording episodes or coaching clients, Monica enjoys cheering on her four sons at soccer games, cooking, and planning family adventures.
Session Description: Ready to make more without creating more? In this session, you’ll learn how to leverage what you already sell on TPT to make money in new ways—through collaborative bundles, email list promotions, and resource partnerships. I’ll break down real examples of how teacher-sellers are earning steady income outside the TPT dashboard by packaging, promoting, and partnering differently. You’ll leave knowing which path fits your business and what to try next.
Jessica McGinn | Pinterest by Jessica at The Crafty Christian Mom
Pinterest Made Simple: Smart Strategies to Boost Your TPT Sales
Session Description: Discover how to use Pinterest to drive consistent traffic to your TPT store and increase sales. In this session, you’ll learn simple strategies to create eye-catching pins, organize boards effectively, and set up a workflow that helps you turn Pinterest views into profits—without spending hours online.
Bio: Jessica is the founder of The Crafty Christian Mom and owner of Pinterest by Jessica, where she helps small business owners, bloggers, and TPT sellers grow their platforms with smart, simple strategies. A former teacher, Jessica blends her love of education with hands-on business experience to help creators turn Pinterest into a powerful tool for driving sales and reaching their audience.
Passionate about helping busy moms and educators succeed online without overwhelm, she focuses on practical, actionable strategies that actually work. Through her coaching and done-for-you services, Jessica empowers TPT sellers to boost visibility, increase sales, and grow their businesses with confidence.
When she’s not helping clients or creating educational resources, Jessica enjoys crafting, family adventures, and finding creative ways to make learning and faith-based activities engaging for young children.
Jessie Yarbrough | Jessie Yarbrough LLC
Pinterest Marketing for TPT Sellers
Session Description: In this training, you’ll learn how to set up and optimize your Pinterest account, find the right keywords for your business, and use Pinterest Trends to plan your content. I'll also walk through how to create a schedule that works for you so you can stay consistent on Pinterest without the overwhelm.
Bio: I'm Jessie, former teacher, homeschool mom, and Pinterest Strategist helping TPT sellers grow their business through strategic Pinterest marketing. I teach TPT sellers how to create a simple, sustainable Pinterest strategy so you can get your resources in front of more teachers, grow your email list, and sell more resources.
Get Ready for Rush Hour: How I'm Using YouTube As a Traffic Driver
Brittany Verlenich | Verity Media
Session Description: In my session, I'll share how I'm driving traffic (and more importantly, conversions) from YouTube videos, to sales of my TpT products. I'll also be sharing a brilliant strategy that I've never shared before - and it's the exact reason I'm finding success on YouTube.
Bio: Brittany is a full-time content creator and marketing strategist. Over the past year, she monetized a YouTube channel from scratch while using it to grow her email list and sell digital products. When she's not traveling, running her own experiments, or helping her clients, she's sharing what she knows on the Social Media Magic podcast.
Shea LaFountaine | LaFountaine of Knowledge
TPT and YouTube: a Match Made In Heaven
Session Description: Learn how to use YouTube, a powerful untapped visual search engine, to drive more sales to your TPT store while simultaneously enhancing resources with video elements that make them more appealing to buyers! You’ll get ideas for using YouTube in ways that make sense as a TPT seller and learn actionable tips and tricks for easily creating videos.
Bio: Hi, I'm Shea LaFountaine, a National Board Certified teacher from North Carolina with experience teaching upper elementary school. I started my TPT store, LaFountaine of Knowledge, 11 years ago and have worked as a full time teacher author for the last 4 years. I've always had a passion for creating engaging, meaningful resources to use in the classroom. During the 8 years I spent teaching, I created almost all of my own materials from scratch. Later, I jumped at the opportunity to create full time. Through my journey as a TPT teacher author, I've developed a unique style. I believe learning should be about discovery and exploration, not rote memorization. I strive to create authentic learning experiences that help students around the world love learning. This past summer, I was honored to speak and present at the 2025 TPT Forward conference in Nashville, TN. This crossover into the realm of helping other teachers become successful teacher authors has been very fulfilling and I can't wait to share with you what I've learned throughout my own journey.
Ashleigh Smith | Social by Ashleigh Smith
5 Instagram Posts You Can Create TODAY
Session Description: Learn five Instagram post ideas you can create today and post tomorrow! In this practical masterclass, I share time-saving strategies to help teacherpreneurs post with purpose, attract their audience, and grow their business, without spending hours on content. These ideas will set you up so that your audience gets to know, like and trust you and can be used over and over again.
Bio: Ashleigh, otherwise known as @socialbyashleighsmith, is a creative fellow teacher-author with a love for all things online business! She helps teacherpreneurs conquer social media marketing through simplified strategies that actually work for teacher audiences. After growing her own teacher business IG to over 160K, Ashleigh wants to share everything she has learned. If you have ever been stuck on not knowing what to post on social media and how to best reach your ideal customer - you are in the right place.
Systems, Collaboration, Motivation
Carol Miller | Carol Miller - Counseling Essentials
Collaboration Over Competition: Using Facebook Groups to Boost Your TPT Sales
Session Description: Discover how to harness the power of Facebook groups to grow your TPT store. In this session, you’ll learn how collaborating with others in your niche can expand your reach, how to use groups to showcase your resources, and how building community leads to more traffic and conversions. Walk away with practical strategies to get more eyes on your store—without going it alone.
Bio: "Carol Miller is a veteran school counselor, curriculum designer, and the creator behind Counseling Essentials, Counselor Chat Podcast, and the Perks Counseling Content Club. With over two decades of experience in education, Carol has built a thriving online business helping school counselors save time, reduce stress, and deliver impactful SEL programs through ready-to-use lessons, small group curriculums, and professional development resources.
As both a top-performing TPT seller and the organizer of several large-scale collaborative events—including the popular #CounselorBoost25 Sale—Carol has mastered the art of growing visibility through community collaboration. Her passion for connection over competition has led to record-breaking group sales and inspired countless sellers to work together for collective success.
When she’s not creating resources or mentoring counselors, you’ll find Carol recording podcast episodes, organizing virtual conferences, or enjoying life in upstate New York with her family (and her cat, Joe)."
Kristina Harrill | Sweet for Kindergarten
The Core Four: Streamline Content Creation with a Simple Content Pillar Strategy
Session Description: Creating content shouldn’t feel like a never-ending guessing game. In this session, you’ll learn how to use my Core Four Content Pillar Strategy to bring clarity, consistency, and purpose to your content creation. We’ll start by getting clear on your goals, then identify four key pillars that align with your TPT business. You’ll discover how to rotate through these pillars each month to plan, batch, and repurpose content that attracts the right buyers, without adding more to your plate. You’ll walk away with a clear framework to streamline your content creation and keep your store in front of potential customers consistently.
Bio: Kristina Harrill is a former Kindergarten teacher and mom of three who built her TPT store, Sweet for Kindergarten, during the small, messy work blocks of motherhood. Now supporting thousands of teachers with hundreds of resources, she shares the systems and strategies that made her growth possible. Kristina is passionate about helping entrepreneurs plan with purpose, maximize limited time, and build consistent momentum, proving that steady, intentional steps lead to sustainable business growth.
How to Run Your Store While Still Working Fulltime
Jamie June | Basic Girl Teaches
Session Description: It’s 100% possible to successfully run your TPT store on the side of teaching (or working) fulltime. Maybe you hope to do business fulltime someday, but you haven’t gotten to that point yet, or maybe you always want your business to stay on the side. Running your TPT store doesn’t have to take all your time or require big investments. In this session we’ll talk about small shifts and simple systems you can use to keep your store running consistently and efficiently and leave you with enough time to thrive in your career and in your life.
Bio: Jamie is a teacher turned instructional designer who has been running her business alongside her fulltime career in education for 9 years. In addition to her TPT store and her resources for Instagram marketing, Jamie is a business coach and brand strategist for online businesses. She’s passionate about bringing people together and helping other teachers with a business build strategies to make their business work for them.
Adrienne Farrow | Adrienne Farrow LLC
The TPT Seller’s Command Center: Build Your Own Google Dashboard
Session Description: Running a TPT store means juggling products, ideas, promotions, and sales reports across multiple tabs and tools. No wonder things slip through the cracks! In this session, you’ll discover how to create a simple, all-in-one Google Dashboard that helps you organize your product library, track new ideas, keep marketing consistent, and see your sales all in one place. You’ll walk away with a productivity system that clears the clutter, saves time, and helps you focus on what actually grows your store.
Bio: I am a Google Tools Specialist. I help online business owners tackle the digital chaos inside their Google workspace by helping them implement systems that work for their unique brain!
Kathryn Allison | MyClassyAdventures
Session Description: Running your teacher business doesn’t have to feel chaotic. In this session, you’ll learn what a Quarterly CEO Day is and how this simple practice helps teacher-authors a stay organized, intentional, and inspired all year long.
Quarterly CEO Days
Bio: I’m a dual language educator with over seven years of experience teaching 5th grade and a teacher-author for more than five years. What began as a way to share classroom resources has grown into a passion for helping other educators and creators streamline their businesses and make a greater impact—without burning out.
Through my TPT store and content, I focus on building systems that save time, simplify decision-making, and create space for creativity. My goal is to help teacher-authors shift from reactive to intentional, so they can focus on what truly matters. Growing their business with confidence and clarity.
Whether I’m designing new materials or guiding others through sustainable business systems, I love helping educators turn their passion for teaching into purposeful, thriving businesses.
Beyond TPT
Boost your Revenue with Workbooks
Krystal Griffith | Check in with Mrs G
Session Description: Leave this presentation with three actionable steps that will help you determine whether repurposing your TpT content into workbooks is right for you.
Bio: I'm Krystal! I help teacher authors diversify their revenue streams with print on demand workbooks.
Gemma Waters | Wonder at the World
Should you start an Etsy store?
Session Description: The session will focus on the selling experience on Etsy to help educators decide if it's the right platform for them. I have had an Etsy store for the past 5 years and although my revenue is lower than on TPT, I've found it a great way to re-use my resources and access new audiences.
Bio: I’m a British seller based in the historic city of Winchester, in the south of England, where I live in a converted church with my writer husband. I have a TPT and an Etsy store, creating elementary science and seasonal resources.
For the past four years, I’ve been lucky enough to make this my full-time job—before that, I spent my days teaching visiting school groups about nature in a little natural history museum.
In my spare time, you can find me drinking tea (the National drink of England), walking along the beautiful chalk river in my city, reading, singing along to Taylor Swift, and dreaming of my next visit to my adopted home, Australia!
I hope my presentation will help other sellers decide if selling resources on Etsy is a good fit for their business, and even start making some extra money before Christmas!
Tiny Idea, Big Impact: How to Repurpose Your Everyday Wins Into a Resource That Helps Others
Tia Parnell | The After Class Collective
Session Description: What if your next big growth move didn’t mean creating more, but simply showing up with what you already have? In this session, you’ll learn how to take one product and intentionally repurpose it across platforms to build trust, boost traffic, and gently increase sales. You’ll leave with a simple rinse and repeat strategy for getting your best product in front of more aligned buyers, without the burnout.
This session is for you if you're short on time, unsure where to focus, or tired of the “do more” advice. You'll learn how to turn one aligned product into a soft visibility system that keeps working even when you're offline.
Bio: Tia Parnell is the founder of The After Class Collective, a gentle business space where teachers turn their classroom wisdom into calm, purpose-led products. A Canadian classroom teacher and curriculum writer, Tia understands what it’s like to pour everything into your students and still feel the quiet tug of something more.
Now, she supports educators, as they build brands in the small pockets of time they have. Her approach is rooted in clarity, kindness, and the belief that sustainable business starts with who you already are. She teaches educators how to package what they know into meaningful offers that reflect their values, voice, and real-life capacity. No pressure to hustle or go viral. Just simple, soul-led progress.
When she’s not co-working with teacher-creators or mapping out soft-launch strategies, Tia’s usually reading slowly, parenting gently, or savouring quiet moments with her family. She believes that helpful is always better than perfect, and that you already have more to offer than you think.
Beyond the Store: Expanding Your Business Beyond TpT
Mandy Lee | Mandy Lee Co
Session Description: What if your TpT store could be just the first step in your business — not the whole thing? In this session, you’ll learn how to take the products, skills, and audience you’ve already built on TpT and expand them into new revenue streams that grow alongside your store.
Bio: Mandy Lee is a former high school Spanish teacher and business coach who helps educators build businesses that work for their lives. What started as a small TpT side hustle quickly grew into a full-time income, and within 15 months she left the classroom. Since then, she’s built multiple businesses while balancing teaching, pregnancy and motherhood and entrepreneurship.
Today, Mandy works with TpT sellers and other educators to grow sustainable businesses both on and beyond the TpT platform. Through her courses, coaching programs, and community, she focuses on helping teachers create consistent sales, expand into new income streams, and design businesses that support their long-term goals, in the time they actually have.
Mandy shares a straightforward, practical approach to business growth, showing teachers how to use the skills they already have to create freedom and flexibility outside the classroom.
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