Education

Teachers need a way to manage a disruptive student in the classroom while ensuring the rest of the class remains supervised and engaged outside.

A creator creating SEL resources for teachers struggles to find high-quality, non-AI-generated, non-clipart examples on Teachers Pay Teachers.

Teacher struggles to create take-home assignments that students cannot complete by uploading source materials to AI tools.

Middle school math teacher spends excessive time manually drawing angle diagrams for worksheets because curriculum materials are inadequate.

A teacher must use a required electronic hall pass system, but the workflow requires students to use their devices, conflicting with a classroom electronics ban and disrupting instruction.

A high school teacher needs independent spelling strategies for a student with a speech impediment who cannot sound out words and whose misspellings defeat spell check.

Teachers lack protected, uninterrupted planning time, constantly switching between instruction and administrative tasks.

A teacher in Washington on summer maternity leave is forced to start paid family leave early, losing summer pay and shortening postpartum time with her baby.

Second grade reading test assesses out-of-grade-level content knowledge instead of reading comprehension skills.

A veteran English/speech teacher returning to speech after 6 years needs curated resources (books, subs, links) to re-engage with current curriculum, strategies, and best practices for public speaking instruction.

Teacher struggles to manage and track grades effectively, leading to a last-minute rush before grade deadlines.

Teachers lose deep knowledge about students when they move to the next grade because critical qualitative details never make it into official files.

A teacher is required to manually pull, organize, and review ACT scores and rosters for anomalies—a data task they feel should be done by counselors or administrators, adding to their workload during the first week of school.

Student teachers lack guidance on selecting and creating curriculum when schools don't provide a prescribed curriculum.

Teacher wants an alternative to NaNoWriMo's classroom writing challenge after the organization imploded, needing an online event or platform for whole-class participation without having to build their own version.