Say Hello to TPT: Where Educators Thrive

As the home for millions of teacher experts, we’re excited to announce that we’ve graduated to a fresh look and a new name: TPT. 

An animation of TPT's new logo begins with the logo fading in from left to right, the letters TPT bouncing one at a time, and an additional yellow star flourish getting drawn.
The redesigned TPT homepage with a brand module banner is shown against a vibrant green background.
Two images are shown side by side. On the left is an image of school supplies, including markers, paper clips, a highlighter, scissors, a laptop keyboard, a notebook, and TPT resources against a yellow surface. On the right is a graphic that reads, "Helping teachers teach at their best," against yellow notebook paper.

Becoming the place where educators thrive 

TPT began in 2006 to address a need — the need for teachers to be able to share what they know with each other. Paul Edelman, our founder, met that need with an idea for a marketplace where teachers could buy, sell, and share the original educational resources they’ve created. Since then, this idea has bloomed into a movement that centers on the expertise of teachers and creates a community to elevate the profession.

The TPT marketplace remains a place where new ideas are born every day, where millions of teachers have each others’ backs, where educators can turn for solutions to their latest challenges. Today, it’s joined by TPT School Access, a subscription that teachers use to prepare engaging

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These TikTok Teachers Nail the Week Before Winter Break

Holiday parties with 17 different forms of sugar. Every concert, performance, and program known to man. Candy canes sharpened into stabby weapons.

That’s right, y’all. It’s the week before winter break.

This week can feel like a roller coaster whipping teachers between feeling festive and celebratory one minute and utterly exhausted the next. These TikTok teachers have boiled down all the competing emotions and various stressors of this time of year and packaged them into perfect little clips for us. What a gift!

This pre-K teacher and the week-before-break conversations with littles

@mrwilliamsprek

Only one day left before winter break, fellow teachers! We got this! We can do it! #teachersoftiktok #teacherlife #teacher #teacherhumor #winterbreak

♬ Jingle Bell Rock – Bobby Helms

I haven’t taught pre-K before, but Mr. Williams made me feel like I had. And I need a nap just from watching.

This teacher who somehow channeled every

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