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Definitely agree with you about issues with monetizing teachers. You would be surprise though to know the kind of things that departments/districts pay for.

I once worked for a company that provided montly conferences to teachers (marketed as professional development courses). Apparently, the districts in our area provided teachers with a budget towards professional development courses and so for the majority of them, they just invoiced the cost of the seminar to their districts.

Not the typical education startup you would think of starting but they're completely self-funded and they seem like they're doing well (with a steady stream of attendees for the last ten years).

Maybe it's just a matter of looking for ways to use the money that is already allocated (but not used) rather than convincing districts to add more to the budget? I know for my former company, the issue wasn't about how teachers could pay for the conferences but rather teachers didn't know they had the money to use for these conferences to begin with.