This is designed as a tool for writers (and it’s FABULOUS for that too – it got me through my doctoral dissertation!), but it’s also fantastic for keeping my teaching materials organized!

A Scrivener project opens as a digital binder, where I can create different sections to store course documents and resources, such as the syllabus, grading rubrics, or authentic materials to use in class, along with my daily lesson plans.

The template function makes lesson planning more efficient, and the ability to add comments to the document helps me remember what I want to adjust for next time.

This is my favorite mind-mapping tool, created by Literature and Latte, the same company that puts out Scrivener! I use it for planning out lessons and thematic units, as well as for organizing my thoughts when working on my research.

I especially love using the color coding features to make sure my lesson plans are equally covering all the skills we’re working on. I also find it helpful to use the different styles of connectors (lines, one-way arrows, two-way arrows, etc.) to track how different concepts and skills are related to each other. 

I am obsessed with my Rocketbook! This is the notebook I use for everything!

If you haven’t yet heard of the wonder that is Rocketbook, it’s a reusable notebook. You write in it using Pilot Gel Frixion pens, and then scan the pages, and your notes get converted to either a .pdf or a .jpg and transferred to the cloud (and you can have multiple preset destinations set up, so you can send personal documents to your Dropbox account while work documents get stashed on OneDrive, for example).

Then comes the magical part – you simply wipe off the pages using a damp cloth, and they erase completely! I love being able to handwrite my notes, but not have to keep track of which notebook I left them in. And it’s thinner than my Kindle, so it’s easy to carry around in my purse.

Tracy Morgan is known as the “FB Ads Fairy Godmother,” and the description couldn’t be more accurate! She walks you through every step of the process for running ads on Facebook and Instagram, from how to set up your business manager to how to analyze your results.

Cultivate is specifically designed for TPT Sellers, so all of the advice, such as how to select a target audience, how to add the TPT Pixel, and what kind of campaigns to run, is tailored to the TPT market, which I found particularly helpful!

When I participated in Cultivate, it was a course, but Tracy is transitioning to a membership model that looks awesome! She’s added new monthly workshops, a private podcast, and additional office hours, along with all of the original course material, and you can get access to all of it for much less than the course originally cost!

This is an unbelievably helpful membership that crunches my TPT data and delivers it in a visual, easy-to-digest format, along with customized recommendations for how to optimize my TPT product listings. The membership also includes monthly trainings on best practices in marketing, tailored to the TPT world.

They are continually adding new features and tools, too! For example, they recently added a feature that compares our conversion rates on each of our products to other products at the same price point, so we can have a better sense of how well our products are doing.

Stef Bowker, of Working Dog Resources, is an Adobe Certified Instructor with over two decades of graphic design experience. She created my logo for me and has also been coaching me in brand development, as well as teaching me the ins and outs of the various Adobe CC programs.

She offers various courses and memberships designed for TPT teacher authors, including a course on the fundamentals of graphic design and another that teaches how to use Adobe CC for resource creation. Stef is absolutely wonderful to work with, and her course materials are clear and easy to follow. I have learned SO much from her this year, and think all TPT teacher authors would benefit from working with her!