MEET YOUR HOST
Misty Miller | Misty Miller - Teacher Seller Strategies
Build a TPT Business That Works for YOU
Session Description: Your TPT business doesn't have to look like anyone else's! In this session, you'll learn how to define success on your terms, choose strategies that fit your goals and available time, and make intentional decisions as your business and the TPT marketplace change. Walk away ready to build a business that works for YOU!
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
Kelly Harvill | Speaking of Images - Photographer
Workflow Win: Drag and Drop Canva Templates
Session Description: Workflow Win walks you through the process of using a Canva Template to create a cover for a worksheet based product. You'll get a free template to create your own cover as you follow along on the video, or use the included step by step PDF to learn the process. If you prefer to use Powerpoint, come along to see how you can do that, too.
Bio: Kelly at Speaking of Images is a Preschool Speech Language Pathologist, National Board Certified Teacher, and Professional Photographer. She helps TPT sellers to create unique eye-catching product covers, thumbnails, previews and social media graphics with modern images designed for educators. No more scrolling through free online sites looking for images that relate to education. No AI prompts. By using mockups or templates you can create professional quality images to get your resources seen- without ever picking up a camera.
While many TpT sellers put "create covers, thumbnails and preview" at the bottom of the "fun things to do list," Kelly puts it at the top of her list. With access to professionally styled and shot templates that relate to your product, it simply becomes a puzzle to put together.
Angie B Kratzer | Angie Kratzer
Previews that Convert: Helping Buyers Cross the Finish Line
Session Description: Struggling with conversion? Your preview might be the issue. Identify the data behind preview health and learn to make templates for both singleton and bundled resources.
Bio: Angie is a retired curriculum specialist and high school English teacher. She lives in North Carolina with her husband an teenage son, both of whom tolerate her fabric addiction and sporadic housekeeping. Angie is nerd-level passionate about data and spends a good portion of her day helping other sellers to understand theirs.
Becky Collins | Smiling Students Lesson Plans
Growing Your Online Store: Strategies for Development
Session Description: Get ready to pick up strategies and ideas for growing and developing your store! You'll learn ways to expand your store while attracting buyers, driving growth, increasing sales, strengthening products and using supportive tech to ramp up growth. An informative 8 page companion handout is included with space for you to add notes of personal ideas and goals that will be implemented in your store now.
Bio: Becky is a teacher with a master's degree in education, specializing in language arts and a bachelor's degree in elementary education with ESOL certification. She's been teaching for over 17 years and enjoys teaching English classes online and in-person. She comes from a long line of educators in her family and is a member of various teaching associations. Her passion for education overflows to her out-of-the-classroom pursuits. Becky has authored seven children's books available on Amazon and successfully leads her own teaching resources store online, Smiling Students Lesson Plans, where she creates and plans cross-curricular, engaging, learning materials for reading, math, science, writing, seasonal, and faith-based resources as a teacher-author. Her involvement in the Scholastic Innovation Lab has been ongoing. She was an invited guest interviewed on the Shared Teaching Podcast. She likes spending time with friends and family and doing humanitarian work - like volunteering in the local community and recently collaborating in a Healthathon using AI and open data to find cures for diseases.
Brenda Kovich | Brenda Kovich
Breaking Down, Building Out & Bundling
Session Description: Are you struggling with optimization, competition, or cohesion? Try breaking down, building out, and bundling. This flexible set of processes will give you the potential to rank for more keywords, compete at different price points, organize your store so it makes sense, and link between related resources.
Bio: Brenda Kovich is a National Board Certified Teacher who taught in upper elementary classrooms for over 35 years. For the nearly 14 years, she has created resources for teachers in the US and around the globe.
Delilah Orpi | SoloOp HQ
Which Products Need Fixing (And Which Ones to Leave Alone)
Session Description: It's easy to spend a weekend updating a TPT product that was never the problem. In this session, I show you how I decide which products to fix and which to leave alone, using two Product Stats downloads from TPT. You'll learn the six patterns I check, how to compare each product to what's typical in your own store, and the one change to make for each pattern. Then I walk through a real example, by hand and with AI, so you can do the same with your three biggest earners.
Bio: Delilah Orpi is a former K-5 reading teacher and interventionist who now runs four digital brands on her own, with no team. Her primary brand, Thrive Literacy Corner, sells literacy resources on Teachers Pay Teachers and hosts the annual Science of Reading Summit for educators.
Through SoloOp HQ, Delilah teaches solopreneurs to build AI systems around how their business actually works. She runs her own TPT store on the same systems she teaches, so everything she shares comes from real products and real numbers. Her focus for teacher sellers is simple: spend your time on the work that moves sales, and stop guessing which work that is.
Kristina Esselman | Mighty Joy Teaching
High Demand, Bad Opportunity: Avoiding Keyword Traps
Session Description: A keyword can have high search volume, low competition, and still be a terrible opportunity. In this session, Kristina Esselman of Mighty Joy Teaching explains why traditional demand-and-competition metrics are not enough and introduces the missing piece: buyer behavior. You’ll learn how to recognize two common Keyword Traps and use real TPT search examples to evaluate buyer intent, competition, pricing, freebies, and purchasing behavior before investing your creation time in the wrong market.
Bio: Kristina Esselman is the TPT seller behind Mighty Joy Teaching and founder and admin of the TPT Facebook Seller Group "Mighty TPT Sellers" that focuses on teaching SEO and Keyword Market strategies to other sellers. Before becoming a full-time resource creator and business owner, Kristina spent ten years teaching 3rd–5th grade, and her TPT store niche is 3rd-5th ELA. With a spiky profile towards pattern recognition, Kristina created success in her own TPT store by developing her own method of evaluating search pages and finding the product keywords that actually lead to sales, despite being in a very competitive niche. She is the creator of Search Lens (a keyword research tool for sellers that evaluates keywords directily on TPT) as well as her signature course "Finding Keywords That Actually Sell". Today, she loves helping other sellers better understand buyer behavior, uncover market opportunities, and make more informed decisions about what they create.
Sammy Bohannon | Bohannon Virtual Solutions
From Idea to Listed: How to Create a Product Workflow for Your Business
Session Description: Learn why product creation workflows are necessary for all sellers and learn how to create your own.
Bio: Sammy Bohannon is the founder of Bohannon Virtual Solutions. She is an online business manager who builds the systems and documents the processes you need to run your business. Then she stays on to manage your daily business operations so you can focus on growing your business.
Sammy is a former EL teacher who left education during lockdown and started her own tutoring business. After a few years, Sammy realized her biggest problem was she was so burnt out from teaching that she didn’t really want to do it anymore. The skills she’d learned from building that business all on her own became the skills that guided her into virtual assistance and later online business management.
In addition to running Bohannon Virtual Solutions, Sammy has come full circle as an educator by creating and selling teacher resources on Teachers Pay Teachers. She now gets to combine her experience in education with the systems-focused approach she uses in her operations work.
Marketing
Melissa Seideman | Not Another Email Company
Six Steps to Email Marketing Success
Session Description: In today’s digital landscape, you don’t own your social media followers, but you do own your email list. Email marketing remains one of the highest ROI channels available to businesses today. Whether you are starting from scratch or looking to revitalize a stagnant subscriber base, this presentation provides a complete, step-by-step blueprint for building a profitable email marketing engine.
Join us for a tactical, zero-fluff session where we will break down the exact strategies used to turn casual subscribers into lifelong customers.
Bio: Melissa is an award-winning email marketing strategist and the bold CEO of Not Another Email. She rescues exhausted founders from the constant social media hustle by building automated background email engines. Believing that true wealth means reclaiming your time, Melissa leverages proven frameworks to completely shatter the industry standard. Her done-for-you systems consistently hit massive 50.72 percent open rates, allowing clients to scale on autopilot and confidently log off at 3:30 PM.
Monica Lopez | Online Business for Teachers
The Thoughts Getting in the Way of Your Sales
Bio: Monica Lopez is a former teacher turned online business owner and the creator of Online Business for Teachers. She’s spent the last several years figuring out what it really looks like to build a business as a teacher, trying things, changing her mind, making mistakes, and learning a whole lot along the way. Now she shares those lessons with other teacher entrepreneurs who are building businesses of their own.
Session Description: You already know the strategies, so why aren’t you using them? In this session, Monica Lopez shares the thoughts that keep teacher sellers from marketing consistently: fear of being salesy, worrying about bothering people, self-doubt, and uncertainty about the future. Through her own stories, you’ll learn how your thoughts shape your results, how to respond to what you can’t control, and how to take the next step in your business with confidence.
Jessie Yarbrough | Jessie Yarbrough LLC
Pinterest SEO: From Keywords to Content Strategy
Session Description: You’ve already put the work into creating your resources. Now let’s help more teachers find them. In this training, I’ll show you how to connect what teachers are searching for on Pinterest with the products and blog posts you already have. We’ll start with one resource and use keyword research to turn it into several different pin ideas. Then we'll build a content plan around searches that fit your resource. You’ll leave with a process you can use again and keyword research to come back to each month.
Bio: I’m Jessie, a former teacher, homeschool mom, and Pinterest Strategist helping TPT sellers grow their businesses through strategic Pinterest marketing. I love helping sellers use Pinterest to get their resources in front of more teachers who are already searching for what they create. I specialize in Pinterest SEO, content strategy, organic Pinterest marketing, and Pinterest ads.
Whether you want to grow your email list, increase website traffic, or sell more resources, my goal is to help you better understand Pinterest SEO and learn how to use keywords strategically so more teachers can find your resources.
You Have 3 Ways to Diversify; It's Time to Start
Brittany Verlenich | Brittany Verlenich
Session Description: Master the transition from platform reliance to complete brand ownership with this comprehensive presentation guide for the Teacher Seller Growth Summit. Content strategist Brittany Verlenich delivers an urgent, logical roadmap to help you navigate recent marketplace policy shifts - such as Teachers Pay Teachers' exclusive membership updates, zero-click search, and the rise of AI - without making panic-driven decisions.
By watching the full session, you will explore the four distinct business paths to find the exact strategy that aligns with your income goals and personal capacity. You will learn how to build an algorithm-proof "escape hatch" using an email list, an owned website, and long-form video content like YouTube to convert cold traffic into loyal buyers.
Additionally, Brittany breaks down practical ways to diversify your revenue beyond digital downloads... including school professional development, consulting, ad networks, and B2B freelancing - while leveraging free native tools like Meta chat funnels and Claude AI to streamline your marketing stack without spending thousands.
Bio: Brittany Verlenich is a content creator, marketing strategist, and the host of the Social Media Magic podcast. She's always sharing creative ways for teachers to make more money with social media - whether that's using these apps to grow your TPT store, or exploring other new revenue streams! Learn more about Brittany (and from Brittany!) by finding her channel on YouTube.
Alyse Johnson-Chilla | Keystone Science
Decoding Your Data: Using Claude and the TPT Dashboard to Drive Sales
Session Description: You have years of data sitting in your TPT Dashboard right now, and chances are you've never actually opened it, or you opened it once, got overwhelmed, and closed the tab. This session is about fixing that. I'll show you exactly which reports to pull from Product Insights and Search Analytics, why grabbing multiple years of the same month matters more than you'd think, and how to hand all of that to Claude and get real answers back instead of a summary you already knew. We'll talk about spotting which products deserve a push before Q1, which search terms are climbing or dying, and where shoppers are looking for things your store isn't showing up for. You'll leave with a process you can run every single quarter, so you walk into Q1 with an actual plan instead of a vibe and a hope.
Bio: Alyse is a full-time high school biology teacher and the founder of Keystone Science, where she writes and sells science curriculum that makes teaching easier and student-centered without losing the rigor. She's spent over a decade in the classroom and running her own TPT store, so she knows exactly how much time gets eaten up by the parts of the business that have nothing to do with making resources. In addition to teaching and her business, she has two young kids and recently finished a Master's program in biology.
Somewhere between grading, coursework, growing her store, and driving her kids to their activities she started using Claude to handle the analysis she used to put off for months at a time. What used to mean hours of scrolling through spreadsheets now takes an an hour or less, and the decisions that come out of it have helped her store grow despite a downward trend in the market.
In her session, she'll walk through exactly how she turns TPT Dashboard data into a quarterly marketing plan, no guesswork required. She'll be sharing that process minus the fluff so you, too, can make data-informed decisions for your business.
Systems, Habits
Making Sales on Autopilot
Jamie June | Basic Girl Teaches
Session Description: I’m talking about the basics of building a funnel and three funnel strategies: email opt-in plus welcome sequence, promoting related products within your products, and product line bundles. We’ll talk about email as a primary way to automate your sales, and learn the features within TPT that anyone can use even if they aren’t sending emails.
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.
Kerri Landry | That Savvy Special Educator
Easy Bookkeeping Secrets that Help You Run Your Business More Smoothly so You Can Focus on What Matters- Building a Healthy, Sustainable Business
Session Description: I’ll be speaking about bookkeeping, tracking profits/loss/expenses/income.
Bio: Hi! I'm Kerri Landry, a retired National Board Certified Special Educator and founder of That Savvy Special Educator, LLC. After leaving the classroom, I decided to continue serving special educators by creating research-based resources and efficient systems that save time without sacrificing rigor and help families with neurodivergent children.
When I moved from the classroom to running my business, I quickly found that the "business" side of being a teacher-seller needed just as much structure as teaching did. So I researched tax laws, collaborated with an accountant, and built an easy-to-use system for tracking profits, loss, income, and expenses. This allows me to unleash my creativity in other areas of my business.
Now, I would like to teach fellow teacher-sellers like you how to track your finances... because you were meant to shine your light and make a difference in this world, not worry about crunching numbers the night before taxes are due.
Fun facts- I am a mom to six grown sons, and a proud Grammy to three grandsons. In my spare time, I enjoy reading, hiking, boating, traveling, and spending time with friends and family. I also have a fear of public speaking. That's irony at its best!
Tara Dusko | Teach Without Tears
From Goals to Growth: The Habits That Move Your TPT Business Forward
Session Description: Big goals are exciting, but knowing how to turn them into consistent action can be a challenge! In this session, you’ll learn how to create specific, measurable goals for your business and use daily or weekly habits to help you achieve them. We’ll walk through how to choose the right goals for your current stage of business, break them into manageable action steps, and create a simple habit tracker to help you track your progress. Instead of feeling overwhelmed by everything you could be doing to grow your business, you’ll leave with a clear focus and a practical plan for taking consistent action toward your goals.
Bio: Tara Dusko is a former third-grade teacher who spent 14 years in the classroom before turning her passion for education into her business, Teach Without Tears. As a teacher seller, Tara has spent years creating and marketing resources for elementary teachers while growing her store alongside other online business ventures. Her experience has taught her that building a successful business isn’t just about creating great products. It’s about setting clear goals, consistently taking action, and using habits to move your business forward.
Beyond TPT
KDP Workbooks: Best Practices for Long Term Success & Your Next Step
Krystal Griffith | Check in with Mrs G
Session Description: Curious about selling your resources as workbooks on Amazon KDP? Get the honest truth, learn the strategies that build lasting success, and walk away with concrete next steps to grow your workbook business.
Bio: I'm Krystal! I help teacher authors diversify their revenue streams with print on demand workbooks.
Alissa McDonald | The Teacher Network
Beyond the Resource: Turn Your Expertise Into a Mini-Toolkit and Sell with ONE Marketing Channel
Session Description: Learn how to go beyond individual resources by packaging your expertise, process, and materials into a toolkit that solves a bigger problem, then validate the idea using one simple marketing channel.
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