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☆ Our side hustles bring in $125,000 a year or more: 'Nearly everybody' can make money this way
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-10 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +9 min

The McCauleys make their money by researching what makes side hustles profitable, testing them and teaching others how to do the same on YouTube. The Grand Rapids, Michigan-based couple earned nearly $140,000 from eight streams of income last year, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It. Ease of starting is at an all-time high: Platforms like Amazon, Airbnb and Fiverr offer instant access to paying customers. Kindergarten teacher Becky Powell's side hustle — making worksheets for other educators — brings in six figures per year. Her husband also sells worksheets on the platform, and they've used their combined earnings to fund vacations and pay down their mortgage and student loans, Powell says.

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☆ How to start a lucrative side hustle, from 4 people who've done it: ‘You can be more successful than you think’
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-30 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

"I think you can be successful with more side hustles than you think," Cody Berman, who co-runs online printables course Gold City Ventures, told CNBC Make It in January. In seventh grade, she started selling leggings for teen girls who couldn't afford larger, trendy brands. Bella Lin, 17, started a side hustle to give her guinea pigs more quality of life. Your ability to stay up-to-date on industry trends and audience demographics can affect your earnings over time, Etsy seller Tim Riegel told Make It last year. Riegel started his side hustle — making and selling steel fire pits — in 2021.

Persons: Cody Berman, Bella Lin —, Bella Lin, Lin, you've, Tim Riegel, Riegel, Becky Powell, Powell, Becky Powell's, —, Morgan Eckroth Organizations: Gold City Ventures, CNBC, Onyx Labs, YouTube, Barista Locations: Gold, Beaverton , Oregon, Portland , Oregon, U.S

☆ Special Education, Inc.
▼ + stars: | 2024-04-21 | by ( Meghan Morris | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +34 min

AdvertisementNate Smallwood for BITo some, private equity's business model appears antithetical to special education. (The average public school district in Pennsylvania, where New Story operates the most schools, spends about $23,000 per child across all types of public education. "Private equity has no place in education — especially special education," Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio told BI. For instance, two Pennsylvania education directors left in spring 2023, according to records obtained by BI — one after just months in the role. AdvertisementNickie Coomer, a Colorado College education professor who has written about the privatization of special education, told BI that this data gap is a major regulatory hole, one that private-equity companies are happy to exploit.

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☆ I quit my corporate job after one year to return to teaching. I feel like I've chosen something I enjoy over long-term financial success.
▼ + stars: | 2024-02-14 | by ( Charissa Cheong | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +7 min

I grew up in Dallas-Fort Worth and started my first teaching job in Brooklyn when I was 24. AdvertisementI resigned from teaching and took a corporate job as a learning and development consultant. I found a fully remote corporate job at a learning and development consultancy firm that helps other companies with learning initiatives like training. I realized I much preferred teaching students over training adultsI started my new job in August 2022. I've chosen something I enjoy over long-term financial successWhen I decided to accept the teaching job, finances were probably my biggest concern, but I feel that with what I'm making now as a teacher, I'm able to live just fine.

Persons: —, Rachel Volk, I've, Volk, I'd, I'm, you'll Organizations: Service, Business, Fort Worth, Fort, New Locations: Dallas, Brooklyn, Texas, Fort Worth, New York, New York City, New York City and Texas

☆ A former teacher and stay-at-home mom has sold over $30,000 in digital printables as a side hustle since 2022. Here are her top 5 tips for getting started without any money.
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-16 | by ( Laila Maidan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

In February 2022, she came across an article about another stay-at-home mom who had a side hustle selling digital printables that can be downloaded and used on the computer or on paper. It was a combination of modules and live social-media group lessons about how to start selling digital products. The templates required more work because there were multiple pages, and the supply was very saturated, with many sellers offering up similar printables. This will also keep the same customers returning to purchase products that match what they already have. The main thing to note is that the printables should be things that are used in classrooms or homeschooling.

Persons: Chelsea Shelton, Shelton Organizations: Gold City Ventures, Pay, Creative Fabrica, Teachers Locations: Etsy

☆ 41-year-old's side hustle brings in $125,500 a year, and costs $0 to start: 'The riches are found in niches'
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-28 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +5 min

She posts her worksheet booklets — designed to help teach literacy to young students — to her online store on Teachers Pay Teachers, an Etsy-style marketplace. Jerome and Becky Powell run their Teachers Pay Teachers stores separately — but the money all goes to the same place, they say. You don't have to spend any money to get started, Powell notes: Teachers Pay Teachers has both free and paid tiers for sellers. Powell pays that subscription fee, as does her husband Jerome — a full-time computer engineer who manages another Teachers Pay Teachers store, called Editable Activities. I have helped eight friends and coworkers open their own stores on Teachers Pay Teachers.

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☆ 41-year-old teacher’s ‘kitchen table’ side hustle brings in $10,400 a month: When I don’t work, ‘the sales still come in’
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-22 | by ( Megan Sauer | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A friend suggested she use her son's naptime to make some extra cash, and pointed her toward an educational resource platform called Teachers Pay Teachers. There, Powell started making worksheets for her fellow teachers to buy and download, working largely from her couch or "kitchen table," she says. Teachers Pay Teachers is an Etsy-style marketplace for educational worksheets, activities and lesson plans across just about every grade level and subject matter. Powell's store, called Sight Word Activities, specializes in teaching literacy to kindergarteners, first-graders and other young students. Last year, Powell's Teachers Pay Teachers store brought in $125,500, or just over $10,400 per month, according to documents reviewed by CNBC Make It.

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☆ Across the Echo Chamber, a Quiet Conversation About War and Race
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-05 | by ( Jennifer Medina | More About Jennifer Medina | ) www.nytimes.com time to read: +5 min

The women agreed to meet at a school Ms. Oliver founded three years ago. When the pandemic hit, Ms. Oliver grew frustrated watching wealthy, largely white, parents pay teachers for private learning “pods,” exacerbating inequities. “I have a very strong affiliation with marginalized people — brown, displaced, refugees, Black,” Ms. Oliver recalled saying at the beginning of the conversation. The way Ms. Oliver described the Hamas attack read to Ms. Minkin like a justification for the murder of Jews. Israel, Ms. Minkin later thought, is a central part of her identity, a place that shaped her, a Jewish homeland she returns to frequently.

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☆ New bill in Congress would give U.S. teachers a $60,000 minimum wage—these 5 states currently pay teachers best
▼ + stars: | 2023-03-16 | by ( Kamaron Mcnair | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., introduced the Pay Teachers Act last week, aiming to set a national minimum salary for public school teachers at $60,000 using federal funds. It's unclear if either bill has a chance at passing through Congress and how quickly that could happen. Currently, the average salary for teachers in 37 states and the District of Columbia sits below $60,000, according to WalletHub research. Teacher salaries vary widely depending on where you live. Teaching in New York, the highest-paying state, could mean earning roughly $33,000 more than teaching in Hawaii, the state with the lowest average teacher salary.

☆ Some schools are switching to the 4-day workweek to bring in and keep teachers, but education officials say it's not a 'magic pill' to fix the educator shortage
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-28 | by ( Korie Wilkins | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +8 min

"Right now, the climate across the country with educators is that they are exhausted and they are tired," Gabe Dannenbring, a middle-school-science teacher and popular TikToker, told Insider. His studies include deep dives on how the four-day schedule impacts student success, and he is considering future studies on how this schedule change can help curb educator burnout. As of 2020, about 550 districts nationwide have adopted a four-day schedule, according to the National Conference of State Legislature. Heather Luke Drozlek teaches in a small private school in Indiana, which is on a four-day school week. "I can see the benefits, but I can also see that it could cause systemic issues," Tell Williams, a preschool teacher and social-media influencer, told Insider.

☆ Bernie Sanders says teachers should be paid at least $60,000 — and thinks that money should come from higher taxes on the wealthy
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Juliana Kaplan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Bernie Sanders wants teachers to make a minimum of $60,000, and to pay for it with taxes on wealthy estates. Sanders' proposal to address that is higher pay, offset with changes to the estate tax. But one of the primary reasons is the pathetically low pay teachers receive. Sanders' plan to pay for higher teacher salaries hinges on the estate tax, which he wants to make both broader and higher. But Sanders thinks it's necessary to deal with the state of teacher pay, noting that childcare workers fare even worse, making less than doggy daycare workers.

The National Education Union (NEU), which is organising the teachers' strikes, has asked for an above-inflation pay award funded fully by the government, so that schools can also cover other costs, from stationery to textbooks. With inflation reaching double digits last year, teachers have seen a 23% real-terms pay cut since 2010, the union says. Heighington, who teaches music, said more than a third of experienced full-time teachers and teaching staff had left his school last year. Educators say schools having to pay teachers' salaries from their own pocket has left classrooms starved of money for textbooks, IT upgrades and school trips. Reports say teachers at the elite Winchester College in southern England, where Sunak attended school and was a head boy, are among those striking on Wednesday.

Technology and entertainmentYou can also give your child's teacher a gift card they can use for entertainment. If your child's teacher already has one of these subscriptions, they can put the gift card toward their account balance. A gift card to Ticketmaster will give your child's teacher the opportunity to put money toward a live show of their choice. Gift cards from merchants like Audible or Bookshop.org will give your child's teacher an engaging way to pass their commute. Gift cards from educational retailers like Lakeshore and Teachers Pay Teachers will help your child's teacher offset classroom costs.

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