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.
My partner, Mary Smith, and I actually wrote our book, the first book, in 1977 which was called Quick
Fun Art and we did it for a hobby just to sell to teacher supply stores and teachers. We recruited my
college roommate around the same time. He came in and wrote 14 really excellent books for ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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Rachelle Cracchiolo Describes Different Business Units Within Teacher Created Materials Company
Rachelle Cracchiolo Discusses Decision To Bring In Outside Help For Certain Business Tasks
Rachelle Cracchiolo Discusses Longer Term Vision And Thoughts on Selling The Business
Rachelle Cracchiolo Provides Overview of How She Learned the Business And Where They Are Today
Mary Dupuy-Smith Discusses Changes in Roles as Business Has Grown and Technology Has Changed
Mary Dupuy-Smith States Company Did Not Put Together Long Range Projections in Early Years
