Teacher Created Materials is an educational publishing company that was founded in 1982 by Mary Dupuy Smith and Rachelle Cracchiolo. The company experienced tremendous growth since its inception--so much that in August 2004, the company split into two distinct businesses: a Book Company under the name Teacher Created Resources headed by Smith, and a Curriculum Company that maintains the name Teacher Created Materials headed by Cracchiolo. Prior to founding Teacher Created Materials, Rachelle taught kindergarten through sixth grade for nine years in the Fountain Valley School District. She graduated from Cal State Fullerton with a Bachelors degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Education.
Well, when we first started, we really focused on selling a product that a teacher would buy out of their own pocket. So we spent probably the first 18 to 20 years really looking at supplementary products from a commodities point of view and from a teachers point of view but as the markets changed ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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