If it looks like a scam, smells like a scam, sounds like a scam then maybe you should hang on to your $7000 (+$1200 p.a. Platform fee) to spend on a marketing consultant who is familiar with a funnel and an integrated CRM system like Kartra, Kajabi, Teachable or LeadPages (say).

I looked at theteacherproject.com and theteacherproject.io, which only sells a promise of riches with lots of testimonials but without any specifics.

You won't be allowed to book a call with a salesperson unless you say you have the finances to invest in your business (immediate disqualification).

When in a call, you are led through all the typical Yes questions like: do you want to make more money? Do you want to scale up your business? Do you want to work fewer hours?

Then you're told that the Teacher Project model is very different from one-on-one hourly tutoring. The model is to create 12-week programs for a group of 5 students that you sell for $1000 per student, only working 2 hours per week.

After a month, you launch the next 16-week program after having signed up another 5 students at $1000 per month. You continue the process, staggering your programs so that you earn an income of $5,000 per month ad infinitum - and "only" working 6 hours per week to teach your 15 signed-up students. It sounds so plausible, right?

They do this by changing the paradigm of hourly tutoring at $30 or $50 per student. You are now offering something so valuable that 5 people (and later 10 or 15 people if you can manage such a large group) will want to commit to paying $85/hr to study with you as part of a group.

(From the client's perspective, though, if I'm going to be paying $85 then I'd probably prefer to find a top tutor from a marketplace of tutors, like Preply or TutorHunt, say, and sign up for one-on-one tutoring with the flexibility of stopping or starting when I want - without having to commit to $1000 up front for an "unknown quantity"!)

How do you find the 5 students to sign up to your high-ticket program?

Ahh, that's easy. First you sign up with a 16 week program with a coach, who will guide you through the process of setting up your business online, establish accounts with Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, etc., register a domain name, connect to your Stripe payment account and define your "Signature Tutoring Offer" (the thing that people will want to spend $1000 to join).

You will subscribe to a Student Lead Machine on a platform called TutorBossCRM. TutorBoss is a product developed and sold by Lisa Tran at www.imlisatran.com.

The owner of TheTeacherProject is Elliot Philips. I don't know if they are connected (and collude?) with each other, but the salesman said that TutorBoss is their proprietary platform.

I've since been looking for tutors who operate under the umbrella of The Teacher Project. But there is no "umbrella". What I did see, though, is one teacher that had created a FB page and YouTube videos to generate leads and funnel through a system (that wasn't TutorBoss, btw). The last entry was 2 years ago and I doubt she's running 12-week programs for her young students with a ticket price of $85/lesson per participant.

I tried to look up some of the other teachers who were paraded as remarkable successes, but they were rather obscure. One teacher's website no longer existed, but the link was still there on his FB page. The last entry was also 2022.

I suspect it's primarily an overhyped, overpriced hand-holding program to set up the typical structures for most any FB-based business, with a rather clumsy funnelling system consisting of video presentations and a simple qualification form before wasting time on scheduling a sales call.

Search in Udemy for any of a dozen video courses that teach more or less the same information - most courses are $15, but even if you spend $100 each on, say, half a dozen courses for various aspects of marketing and funnelling - you'll still save a fortune.

You could also explore some of the integrated CRM systems like Kartra (and there are several video courses that walk you through the configuration and operational processes, on YouTube, for free).
Kartra also costs $100/month (if you pay $1,200 p.a.) or $120 for a month-on-month subscriptions. Start with the monthly option until you're sure the system works for you before "saving" money on annual subscriptions.