Talented Teacherpreneurs: Fantastic Teacher

This week's talented teacherpreneur is Angela from the Fantastic Teacher! Angela is currently a teacher in McKinny, Texas. She decided to become a teacherpreneur when she was working at a poor school, and started making resources for her class.

While working in Dallas ISD, her district implemented Writer's Workshop. As it was being implemented, she had a wonderful writing coach mentor who trained her and inspired her to create daily lesson plans for her class. As a result, she created hermost valuable resource, her Writer's Workshop (Taller de Escritura).

Her advice to those thinking of selling their resources online? If you love to create activities and lessons for your class, TpT is a good place to share your ideas and make money at the same time! It takes time to grow, but if it is something you love to do, it is worth it!

Her goal moving forward is to find or create a daily intervention for her students that is fun and engaging!

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