Talented Teacherpreneurs: Smith Science

This week's teacherpreneur is Meshelle from Smith Science! Meshelle began teaching long before TPT was a thought! Creating learning experiences for her students has always been exciting for her. She was on a perpetual search for activities that addressed her content, engaged her students, and was easy to follow. Engagement was her priority, but she was determined that her classroom content was rich . If she couldn't find what she was looking for, she created it herself!

To address the many ability levels in her classroom, she created Brain Gush, a collection of mathematical challenges that incorporate 5th grade concepts but push the envelope! Her students love it when she passes out the new version of Brain Gush each week! They especially love that they can work in any order. She's found so many other teachers in the TpT community that have faced the dilemma of varying ability levels in the classroom, and have found Brain Gush helpful!

Her advice for aspiring teacherpreneurs? Those with phenomenal ideas need to share! Take one of your phenomenal ideas and write it up like you would for a substitute. Take some time and make it graphically interesting. Post it! TpT makes it easy to post. Next week or next month add another item. Make it part of your lesson planning. Think of it as sharing your ideas with the world rather than a money maker. Money will come...in time.

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