How much of your own $ have you spent getting your classroom and teaching tools ready for SY 2015-2016.  Fortunately, a nice list of national businesses give teachers a discount on purchases of various types.  Some of these are quite formal and require registration – like Barnes and Noble Teacher discount.  Others seem to be like a “flash your teacher ID” and save.

In perusing this list, I discovered the International Teacher Identification Card.  It’s clearly a money making operation for someone as the base level card is $25 (plus shipping!?!).  If it truly provides as many as discounts internationally as it claims to, it might be the teacher equivalent of the well-known AAA travel discounts.

Also, check with your local library as both of the ones for which I am eligible offer Educator Cards which offer extended check-out and reduced (or eliminated) late fines.