Can I Use Youtube Videos In My Tpt Products

The life of a instructor is a busy one. Every year I say to myself that I just need to become through September and things will calm down. The kids volition settle into our routines we love. I will magically be gear up for the inevitable roadblocks that announced. Heck, I will even conceptualize them.

Then October rolls in and that "calming down" thing simply isn't truthful. October has its own busy and and so do Nov, Dec and every other month. Education is a wild ride – always.

I'k seeing a lot of conversations on social media about the weight of teaching. The feeling many have in Oct, the Oct Slump. Many use the phrase "simply holding my caput above water" or "treading water" — this whole thought that we are just virtually to drown.

The tasks build upward, the work piles on, fourth dimension and resources are scarce. It seems similar we may shortly exist overwhelmed with the flood of responsibilities that come up with pedagogy.

I get it. I live information technology. And notwithstanding…

Does the End Justify the Means?

Earlier this week at the gym I saturday downwardly to grab up on one of my preferred podcasts. I had not heard of the latest guest, but part of the clarification centered on teacher resources and "equity in sharing." That caught my eye, then I turned it on and striking the treadmill.

Much to my dismay the podcast took a turn that caused me to suspension for a infinitesimal. The speaker was what some refer to equally an Edu-CEO – an individual who has left the classroom to form a business organization with the goal of supporting teachers. This detail guest was singing the praises of the Teachers Pay Teachers educational activity marketplace.

Having listened to this podcast series before, and knowing that many of the past guests had been victims of the copyright infringement practices that Teachers Pay Teachers seems to miss then frequently in the products they profit from, I was anticipating that the host would have a pointed question or two for this TPT champion. But the challenge did not come.

As the podcast continued, topics like how to promote your store, dealing with the "echo sleeping accommodation" of negativity, and how Teachers Pay Teachers is a tool for disinterestedness (I pulled an eye muscle on this i) were addressed. As a recovering TPT seller I know how rampant the abuse of intellectual property rights is on the platform, and so I was shocked at this clear bias for the promotion of resource creation using the intellectual work of others without permission.

As a simple sample of what I mean, I've just searched "The xl Book Challenge" on Teachers Pay Teachers. This is an idea, for those who are unaware, that Donalyn Miller introduced in her fantastic book The Book Whisperer. The search returned over g hits selling various graphic organizers and other creations, all sporting the 40 Book Challenge name. They often cite Donalyn herself equally the creator (one even called her "Carolyn" Miller).

In try to gainsay the rampant copyright violations on websites such as Teachers Pay Teachers, Heinemann Publishing has updated its copyright language. I promise other educational material publishers follow their lead. https://t.co/CTTRNIAcdH

— Donalyn Miller (@donalynbooks) December 16, 2018

Using Donalyn'due south name is 1 of two things – a misguided try to give credit, somehow thinking it absolves them of any incorrect regarding copyright infringement – or an endeavour to get more eyes on their product by having her name in the description. Either way the practice is disheartening.

Don't even get me started on the use and abuse on TPT of Notice and Note, a collection of works past Heinemann authors Kylene Beers and Robert Due east. Probst. These 2 creators have asked that people non have their ideas and sell them on Teachers Pay Teachers. But a quick search there produces 7000+ hits.

Why are these sellers willing to ignore intellectual property rights? Ane TPT-participating teacher told me, "I don't care what they say, I should get paid for my work!" The hypocrisy of this statement was both staggering and hilarious to me. In that moment I realized what I was dealing with.

Sharing Our Work Is Good

The concept of teachers paying teachers is not all bad. The statement that teachers need ways to share resources and maybe fifty-fifty turn a profit off the work they are CREATING themselves is credible, even valuable.

The business concern I have is that educators are looking to Teachers Pay Teachers and the somewhat affordable products offered there without giving much consideration to who created the original work – whether someone else'south genius made it possible for these TPT sellers to create packets, handouts and super beautiful worksheets. And what it means when we fail to support the authors and thought leaders who have put in the time – in the classroom and at the writing desk-bound – to effigy out and share what works.

The point is frequently raised in this discussion that teachers demand back up, they demand resource, and there not enough time to make everything they need. I agree, and never more than than this year. I am stretched pretty sparse myself, and I myself am tempted at times. I accept in the past hit up Teachers Pay Teachers for some quick ideas so I can but get something started tomorrow. What I accept not washed is kid myself that this is best for my students or my practice.

The Heinemann Web log post about copyright linguistic communication revisions, mentioned in Donalyn Miller's tweet above, specifically mentions Teachers Pay Teachers as a cause for concern. This passage is highlighted in the mail service:

Heinemann's authors accept devoted their entire careers to developing the unique content in their works, and their written expression is protected by copyright law. We respectfully ask that y'all practice non adapt, reuse, or copy anything on tertiary-party (whether for-profit or not-for-turn a profit) lesson sharing websites. (An Update to Our Copyright Linguistic communication, Heinemann Blog, 12/10/xviii)

My outlook on this: If I buy Notice and Note, if I read it, if I utilize the materials that come with the book (within the covers or online) – which are shared by the authors with me for the price of the book – and if I so accept their ideas and templates and adapt them for my needs in my classes, this is advisable apply, part of my "license" which I gained by buying and absorbing their work.

If I develop some of my own original materials, inspired past my study of Beers and Probst in the virtually general sense, and offering them online, that may be okay, too. But the minute I connect their titles, special language, books and materials to my items for sale – I'm very likely infringing on their intellectual property. If then, then I'm taking unfair advantage of the large investment they and their publishers have made to create, publish and promote what they have created.

Robert Probst & Kylene Beers developed the Find and Note learning strategies.

I understand that costs of professional resources can be high. But these texts provide a long term learning tool. If a school division or school presents us with funds to improve our classroom and pedagogy, our first moves should not be to type in Teachers Pay Teachers to build a curriculum. Nosotros should be edifice professional libraries. We should exist creating a strong foundation of education that does not rely on clip art, fancy fonts and chevron borders to take hold of our students attention.

While Teachers Pay Teachers is affordable and yes, y'all can probably get all the handouts y'all need in that location for effectually the same toll every bit a few professional person teaching resources, which is going to provide the better long term educational growth for both you and your students?

The Question of Equity

I take spent the week pondering how to accost the claims that Teachers Pay Teachers is an disinterestedness tool, that it evens the playing field and provides resource to those who have less admission due to geographic isolation or fewer fiscal resources.

While I can encounter that these issues are significant, I would suggest in that location are better ways to gain admission than to buy what some might say is stolen property. In this solar day and age nosotros have connections to amazing educators at our finger tips. I live in rural Alberta, Canada. The excuse of isolation just goes as far as our connection to the internet.

Lack of available funds is a real problem, but if you accept funds to purchase a few canned resource from TPT, y'all likely have the means to invest in some professional person resources that will build your practice. Check the library, ofttimes there is a resources section with support funds. I also meet crowd-funded resource requests all the time – try 1 in your community. Perchance the #clearthelists motion would be a great style to get those resources to support your educational activity (while we also support #fundourschools).

The thought of a school division or district giving teachers coin for resources, and instead of investing in the learning of teachers we invest in workbooks and worksheets, saddens me. As I was discussing this concept on Twitter, a friend said in a moment of desperation they turned to TPT because they were education a new course and just felt like they were drowning.

In that moment, I thought most the story Refugee by Alan Gratz that my grade 8 class is currently loving. At that place is a scene where Mahmoud is in the Mediterranean sea, on the verge of drowning, and his life jacket is non helping him stay afloat. The life jackets his family had purchased seemed not bad. They looked similar the real deal, simply alas they were fakes. Their sense of safety and security was imitation. (Mahmoud and his family do survive the ordeal, finding a functioning life jacket to keep them alive.) I thought about that and how Teachers Pay Teachers is sometimes that imitation life jacket. It looks good, makes us feel okay, like we're able to float, but in the terminate it does nil to really buoy the states up.

My Greatest Concerns

Ultimately, my primary concern with the products on Teachers Pay Teachers revolves around the legalities of copyright infringement and the morality of teachers repackaging the ideas of others by throwing some shiny clip art on the authors' piece of work and claiming it as their own. What is the message we are sending? What is the example we are showing?

Beyond that, I call back the appeal of quick and easy handouts and one-half-understood tools will distract too many teachers from our true purpose. Notice and Note again provides a good example. Having some handouts with those words on them that nosotros can bear witness to the principal is a whole lot different than really understanding at a deep level what Beers and Probst are trying to help us accomplish with our kids – and really learning to use their strategies.

Teach and learn. That's our true purpose. Teach and learn.

EDITOR'Southward NOTE: Readers may exist interested in this story that appeared at Education Week in July 2020: Teachers Pay Teachers Has a New Anti-Racist Initiative. Merely There'due south Still Racist Content on the Site.

AND this EdSurge article from February 2021:

What Teachers Pay Teachers Is Learning From Bad Lessons and Upset Teachers – More than 2-thirds of teachers are estimated to have used Teachers Pay Teachers to admission lessons and other resources. Yet, a review of materials on the site by The Thomas B. Fordham Establish found many may non be "worth using," and the visitor appears to be reacting to some concerns, including a need for more anti-racist and culturally responsive materials. (Summary from Accomplished Teacher SmartBrief)

Source: https://www.middleweb.com/41448/why-ive-stopped-using-teachers-pay-teachers/

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