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.
I think it's because we're privately owned and we can go quickly to the marketplace. The market's harder today than it ever has been. I was just giving a lecture at Harvard last week and I learned an interesting statistic that ten years ago there were 80 textbook companies and today there's only 3...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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