Talented Teacherpreneur - Ser Bilingue Rocks!

This week's Talented Teacherpreneur is Angie from Ser Bilingue Rocks! She has been teaching for six years, and was originally inspired to become a teacherpreneur because of the lack of Spanish resources she had access to. Her store has steadily been increasing in growth, and she is now a very proud teacherpreneur because she creates resources in both languages that help other teachers and students from all over!

The most valuable resource in her store, and the one that's inspired her to create more hands-on engaging resources for her classroom and her store, is the 2D Shapes booklets. They are available in both languages, but her Spanish version, "Figuras Geometricas 2D" is her top seller!

Her advice to aspiring teacherpreneurs? Do your research. When she opened her store, she didn't upload a resource for another 2 months after that! She was busy researching how to create products, including how to write descriptions for the products, giving credit to other authors, cross selling other resources within the product descriptions, and making product covers more attractive. Even something as simple as uploading a square product cover can make a huge difference in how that product is recieved! She suggests investing in quality clipart and fonts for your students and not just for the sake of it. Lastly she says not to compare yourself to other sellers, and take a risk!

The area she'd like to grow more professionally is learning how to help students with special needs succeed in her classroom!

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