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.
You know, it's a tricky business because we have other people who have family members who work here. I think that probably the best advice I give is don't do it because it's hard when you have your family member work here and they have issues because it's hard for the manager or whoever the person ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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