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Dear Teachers,

We hope you are having a fantastic summer! At TpT we're gearing up for another amazing school year, and we can't wait to help empower you and your teaching. It starts today.

How do we know that we will have an impact? Well, let's look at some historical data. Over the last three school years, you have deemed teacher-created resources on TpT valuable enough to enrich our incredible contributors in dramatically increasing increments. What you can't see yet is what will happen during the 2012/2013 school year. But I have a prediction! It will surpass $20,000,000.

That's because our contributors--whose ranks grow by the hundreds every week--are hard at work developing the absolute highest quality resources they can, and then working harder to make them even better. Their materials work because, um, duh, they are made by real teachers who know how to teach real students. They weren't dreamed up by some corporate conglomerate looking to satisfy its shareholders. And they are offering over 37,000 free resources that you've downloaded over 40,000,000 times! Our teacher-authors just get it, and you reward them with your choices. It's a no brainer.

One of our users said it best on our recent Facebook fan page post:







High Five, Holly Urban Palermo. See all of you every Sunday morning with your coffee, bagel and TpT. In fact, see you every day.

Teach and be well,

Paul Edelman
@TpTFounder


TpT SPOTLIGHT

There are 1000s of Back to School resources on TpT and several ways to find them. A keyword search sorted by Best Sellers brings up these results. Or you can go directly to the Back to School category sorted by ratings. Happy hunting.

We have many earnings announcements to make which we do to acknowledge excellence on TpT at the 20k, 75K, 500K and 1M milestones. Reaching 75k in earnings--whoot!--were Jodi Durgin (Clutter Free Classroom) who actually rocketed past it and hit 100k this week, Wise Guys, Julie Lee, Lindsey Erickson (The Teacher Wife), and Amy Lemons for whom it only took one year! And reaching 20K in earnings--sweet!--were Pam Ballingall (Pocketful of Centers), Laura Candler, Hilary Lewis, Missy Lane, A Cupcake for the Teacher, and Jamie Rector. Huge congrats to all and we wish you many more years of giving and getting back.

This year we plan to bring you a Google+ Hangout speaker series with your favorite sellers. In the meantime, Google+ is sponsoring a pretty cool summer camp for teachers and students interested in making real things. Check it out here.

As usual, we hope you find the 10 free downloads below useful!

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Grade 2 Illustrated Common Core Standards Posters
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Back to School Detailed Lesson Plans for the 1st Day of Kindergarten
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Westminster, California

As an elementary school teacher and now a Mommy to two little girls,  I desire to make learning FUN and exciting!  My passion is to create resources that not only meet Common Core Standards, but also instill a genuine love for learning.
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Ready2Read Level 1 Unit 1
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Sight Word Graphing (Pre-Primer Edition)
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Browse All By TpT Sellers for TpT Sellers
Top 5 Copyright Questions for TpT Teacher/Authors
by Margaret Whisnant
Grades PreK-12

Browse All Posters
12 Inspirational Quotes for Reading
by The Teacher Couple
Grades 6-12


Browse All Back to School

Science Atom Particles vs. Personality
by Anna Crisostomo
Grades 5-11


Browse All By Classroom Management

Classroom Organization Labels
by Ann Marie Smith
Grades PreK-12

Browse All
Grammar
Comic Lesson on Verbs
by David Rickert
Grades 4-9

Browse All Bulletin Board Ideas
When You Enter This Classroom - Door Decor
by A Teacher's Treasure
Grades 2-7

Browse All Back to School
Back to School
“Rules” Game

by Teach4Real
Grades 2-8

Browse All
Task Cards
Friendship Cards: 24 Social Skill Prompts
by Rachel Lynette
Grades 1-5

Browse All
Literacy Center Ideas
My Best Friend! {ABC Order Station Activity}
by The Thrifty Teacher
Grades K-2

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For Parents
Dos & Don’ts of Open House Parent to Teacher Info Sheet
by Lisa Rombach
Grades PreK-3
BEST OF THE BEST — LAST WEEK

Best Selling Items
1 Teacher Reading Binder: Ultimate Resource for any Teacher!
2 TEACHING PROCEDURES & ROUTINES {Blackline Design} classroom management tool
3 Common Core Language Arts Assessments for 1st Grade
4 Brain Breaks for the Classroom
5 Clutter-Free Classroom Guide to Organizing & Managing Your Classroom


See Top 100

Best Selling Sellers Overall
1 Clutter-Free Classroom
2 Deanna Jump
3 Lesson Plan SOS Teachers
4 Kim Adsit 
5 Jodi Southard

Best Sellers by Grade Ranges — Last Week

Prek-2
1 Deanna Jump
2 Lesson Plan SOS Teachers
3 Kim Adsit 
4 Jodi Southard 
5 Babbling Abby
  3-5
1 Clutter-Free Classroom
2 Ashleigh
3 Rachel Lynette 
4 3rdGrThoughts
5 One Extra Degree

  Middle School
1 Runde's Room
2 A Teacher's Treasure
3 Lindsay Perro 
4 mskcpotter
5 Arik Durfee
High School
1 Tracee Orman
2 Creative Classroom A to Z
3 Mrs. S.
4 Secondary Solutions 
5 Lisa Michalek 


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