You can learn a lot about a person when you learn about where their name originates. I have often done an activity in my classroom where students share about their names. There are some interesting stories out there from being named after famous people, immigrants, and family history!
I have always been luke-warm about my Teachers Pay Teachers store name. When I introduced myself and my store name at the TpT conference in Nashville, I felt I had to give the back story. Other seller's positive reactions made me realize how cool my (and other's) store names are! Read on to find out how your favorite sellers got their store names! Then, fellow teacher-authors, feel free to add your story in the comments below!
I have always been luke-warm about my Teachers Pay Teachers store name. When I introduced myself and my store name at the TpT conference in Nashville, I felt I had to give the back story. Other seller's positive reactions made me realize how cool my (and other's) store names are! Read on to find out how your favorite sellers got their store names! Then, fellow teacher-authors, feel free to add your story in the comments below!
When trying to come with a store name, I wanted to think of something that represented who I am beyond teaching. Since I was a kid, my parents always called me "Stef" and as an adult my husband calls me "Bub". I put them together to get "Stefbub"!
I am a Certified Occupational Therapy Assistant (COTA) For years when I made things for my students, colleagues would say "you are so creative". It was usually followed by "can you make me...". When I thought about starting a store, coming up with a name seemed so random, then CreativeCOTA popped into my head. Usually things pop right back out, so I am glad this one stayed.
For over 30 years the special needs students that I love and service have called me "Mrs H" and the teachers tell them to go to "Mrs H's Speech Room". My store name evolved from that because it makes me happy and reminds me of why I am sharing resources. So that other students can happily run down the hall to "Mr/Mrs ____'s Speech Therapy Room" and have fun while they are learning.
Many of the kids I work with are massive sensory seekers (autism) and we do lots of learning through sensory play. I spend most of my day playing with sensory boxes, bubbles, shaving foam and play dough. I love my job. :)
My husband teaches science (Sci), and I teach math (pi) = Scipi
During my many years of teaching (grades K-8) I've been committed to outwitting the issues faced by gen. ed. teachers. These issues include delivering lessons and materials that address differing levels of learner sophistication, special education, English language learners, emotionally impaired students, speech and language, absent students, etc. The general education teacher is challenged to successfully teach all of these learners, align to common core standards, and keep admin. happy too. So my store name reflects that mission. "Smarter Teaching K-8."
Colleagues would say that I 'teach wisely' instead of giving busy work. I just wanted to maximize exploration time for students and minimize the generation of things to mark, lol! I was labelled gifted myself so apparently that means my brain works a bit oddly, making connections rather than learning in a straight line. I tend to present information the same way so kids will learn in a way that let's them internalize and then guess at connections down the line (which I encourage). The description stuck.
Mine came after seeing these cute little circles that I used to make my teaching icon. I thought they looked like little gears. I always think of gears as little building blocks or mechanisms that make something like a clock work. I also connected that to the saying of the gears turning can refer to someone thinking deeply.
Since I draw clipart, my brain somehow related that as clipart being the gears that help make a product better. It made sense to me at the time.
Since I draw clipart, my brain somehow related that as clipart being the gears that help make a product better. It made sense to me at the time.
Louisiana Penguin came from a sleep deprived walk along the Mississippi River with my partner and my new baby. In the distance, I saw a pelican perched on a pole along the bank. Living in New Orleans, pelicans perching on poles is a very cliche image (and also makes an awesome alliteration example, it seems). So I turned to the love of my life and in my fuzzy sleep deprived haze pointed it out to him and said “look at that stereotypical Louisiana penguin. It took me a ridiculously long time to realize my slip up ( think viral video epic-ness)
The name doesn’t have anything to do with education, but anytime I see or say my store name, it reminds me of that afternoon with my family. Which is a great thing to be reminded of.
I do write content to align with the Louisiana ELA guidebook....so I guess there is a little connection there.
The name doesn’t have anything to do with education, but anytime I see or say my store name, it reminds me of that afternoon with my family. Which is a great thing to be reminded of.
I do write content to align with the Louisiana ELA guidebook....so I guess there is a little connection there.
My store name "PLANETPALS" is based on my characters Planetpals from my site at Planetpals.com. With Planetpals I have been educating students worldwide since 1998. It was the first environmental education resource online.
Planetpals are Earth friendly and fun characters that are for Healthy Planet and Healthy People.
The topics of my sites, my blog and my content on TPT are related to Green Living, Healthy Planet, Earth Science, Healthy Lifestyle and World Peace.
Planetpals are Earth friendly and fun characters that are for Healthy Planet and Healthy People.
The topics of my sites, my blog and my content on TPT are related to Green Living, Healthy Planet, Earth Science, Healthy Lifestyle and World Peace.
I started a site 10 years ago, worksheetplace.com so it just seemed like a good integration. I know what the feeling is about the term worksheet is, but let's face reality, every PDF is essentially a worksheet. Worksheets with a difference ;-)
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