As a teacher I&#x27;ve looked into TpT in the past, but as an end-user it has rarely saved me any time or effort. At best, documents could provide fresh ideas - but document discoverability + adaptability feel severely inadequate.<p>What the success of this site does speak to is an underlaying desire by educators to have a shared resource for the rapid creation&#x2F;adaptation&#x2F;implementation of curriculum materials.<p>Teaching still remains a craft-based occupation and experienced educators naturally want to individually create their own curriculum materials; however, I believe this has less to do with the inherent inadequacy of shared documents then it is the cumbersome nature of adapting someone else&#x27;s documents to your purposes. A strong teacher creates their curriculum documents based on the specific needs&#x2F;interests of their students (not the ones down the hall, or the ones from last year) so even with the &#x27;best&#x27; lesson materials they will need the documents to remain flexible.<p>Yes - a Word .doc does this to a point, but even fighting the oddities of formatting can be a sufficient enough time-suck to abandon the document and begin from scratch. The document format should instead be a combination of structural curricular patterns (sharable + driving discoverability through the assigned utility of a given pattern [e.g. discussion pattern for groups of four]) + instructor assigned style guide (largely automated in application based on instructors previous style&#x2F;formatting decisions). I couldn&#x27;t care less about your font&#x2F;color choices (which may conflict with customs in my classroom) - but I do care about the underlaying utility of your {activity, introduction, guide, etc.}.<p>If it doesn&#x27;t save me time (in doing something I&#x27;m already capable of) or empower me to do something (I&#x27;m not otherwise able to do), then what&#x27;s the point?