education
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Easel: Reframing Quizzes as Assessments
Using teacher research to redefine an MVP Role: Product DesignerCompany: Teachers Pay TeachersProduct: EaselTeams: Product, Engineering, UXR, Educational Research When Teachers Pay Teachers explored building a new graded product within Easel, we initially referred to the work internally as “Quizzes.” Early teacher research revealed that while grading mattered, the quiz mental model was too narrow…
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Reimagining “My Library”: A Vision for TPT’s Future
Overview When I joined Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT), it was primarily a marketplace for printable resources. This meant that My Library—a dashboard where teachers stored their purchased materials—was mostly home to PDFs and documents, with most users having only a handful of purchases. As TPT evolved, My Library needed to be rethought to accommodate a…
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Transforming TPT: A Digital-First Rebrand
When I joined Teachers Pay Teachers (TPT), they were kicking off the start of a new chapter. For years, TPT had been a marketplace for printable resources, but with the rise of laptops in the classroom, the demand for digital materials was growing. At the same time, TPT was evolving its business model, testing district-level…
Justin Dickinson 