Lisa Dunnigan - The Edupreneurs Side Hustle Handbook: 10 Successful Educators Share Their Top Tips

Find out how you can use your talents as an educator to make extra money on the side! In this helpful book, top Instagram influencers share how theyve had success with selling lesson plans, handouts, t-shirts, and more, while maintaining careers as teachers and school leaders. Youll hear from these inspiring educators:

• Lisa Dunnigan and Tosha Wright @thewrightstuffchics
• Jen Jones @hellojenjones
• Michelle Ferr @pocketfulofprimary
• Kisha Mitchell @sweetteaandsunshinepodcast
• Bryce Sizemore @theteachingtexan
• Kristen Donegan @easyteachingtools
• Cynthia Frias @followsocialone
• Kayse Morris @kaysemorris
• Eric Crouch @adventureswithmrc

If youve always dreamed of having a side hustle but werent sure you had the time or the know-how, this is the book for you. Each chapter offers tons of practical tips to help you get started, along with humorous anecdotes and words of wisdom to keep you motivated on your journey.

Lisa Dunnigan and Tosha Wright are CEOs of The Wright Stuff Chics, Inc. Lisa has over 30 years of experience as an educator and has worked as a teacher in middle and elementary schools, and as a counselor, assistant principal, principal, and county administrator. Tosha has over 11 years of experience as a teacher, IB coordinator, and assistant principal. Together, Lisa and Tosha run the Teach Your Heart Out Conferences, which bring together educators from across the United States for three inspiring events a year.

Edited by Lisa Dunnigan and Tosha Wright

First published 2020

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Dunnigan, Lisa, editor. | Wright, Tosha, editor

Title: The edupreneurs side hustle handbook : 10 successful educators share their top tips / edited by Lisa Dunnigan and Tosha Wright.

Description: New York, NY : Routledge, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2019059780 (print) | LCCN 2019059781 (ebook) | ISBN 9780367354572 (hardback) | ISBN 9780367354565 (paperback) | ISBN 9780429331510 (ebook)

Subjects: LCSH: TeachersSupplementary employment. | Entrepreneurship.

Classification: LCC LB2844.1.S86 E48 2020 (print) | LCC LB2844.1.S86 (ebook) | DDC 371.1dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019059780

LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019059781

ISBN: 978-0-367-35457-2 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-367-35456-5 (pbk)

ISBN: 978-0-429-33151-0 (ebk)

Typeset in Palatino

by Apex CoVantage, LLC

Contents

by Marilyn Carroll

Lisa Dunnigan and Tosha Wright

Jen Jones

Bryce Sizemore

Michelle Ferr

Kisha Mitchell

Kristen Donegan

Kayse Morris

Cynthia Frias

Eric Crouch

Guide

Lisa Dunnigan has over 30 years of experience as an educator. Lisa was a single parent when she had Elise and Tosha at the age of 18. She was determined not to let her pregnancy get in the way of her education. She was able to receive her college degree three times. During her career, she has been a seventh-grade teacher at Carrollton Junior High School in Carrollton, Georgia. Upon later getting married, she moved the family to Gainesville, Georgia, where she taught fourth grade. As the twins were starting high school, they made a final move to Douglasville, Georgia, where Lisas career continued to grow. During her early tenure at Douglas County Schools, she held positions of increasing responsibility, including school counselor, assistant principal, and principal. As an elementary school principal, Lisa was recognized often. Additionally, because of the multiple instructional gains made by her staff and students during her tenure, Lisa received several additional school achievement awards. In 2012, Lisa became the Title I Executive Director for the Douglas County School System. In February 2020, she plans to retire and work full-time for her company, The Wright Stuff Chics, Inc.

Tosha Wright began her career teaching kindergarten outside of Atlanta in 2005. She has taught first grade in Ohio and Virginia and was a curriculum and International Baccalaureate (IB) coordinator in Pennsylvania for five years. Tosha moved back to Georgia in 2018 to become an assistant principal at a high school outside of Atlanta. She is the co-owner of The Wright Stuff Chics, Inc., co-founder of the Teach Your Heart Out Conferences, and CEO of The Pink Santa Hat Movement, Incorporated.

Eric Crouch is a fifth-grade teacher in Columbus, Georgia. He began teaching in 2011 and has been recognized nationally with the Milken Educator Award, a $25,000 prize for outstanding teaching, and in 2019 was recognized internationally by the Varkey Foundation as one of the Top 50 Teachers in the World by the Global Teacher Prize. In 2018, after Hurricane Michael hit a nearby community, Crouch and his students traveled to Bay County School District and interviewed teachers, principals, and others impacted by the hurricane. The students helped edit a documentary that would be seen and shared thousands of times over social media. As a result of the outreach and video, Bay County School District received nearly $2 million in donations. He has used his background in photography and film to teach his students how to change the world. In 2017, his students changed the lives of 56 Kenyan students when their marketing strategy raised enough money to save a school in rural Kenya. Eric speaks all across the country at Teach Your Heart Out about how to create and share work that matters. He and his students can be followed on Instagram @adventureswithmrc.