The online marketplace is a growing and increasingly popular resource for teachers looking to fill holes in curricula. Studies conducted by RAND in the past few years found nearly all teachers surveyed report using online instructional materials, with 55% of ELA teachers saying they use Teacher Pay Teachers for that purpose at least once a week.
The websites subject to the Fordham Institute review report high numbers of users, with Teachers Pay Teachers saying 5 million teachers used the site in the past year alone and 1 billion resources were downloaded. Share My Lesson reports 1.5 million members with resources downloaded more than 13 million times.
