Thursday, May 15, 2014

The thing about inspiration is that once you have been truly inspired, it’s hard to go back from that inspired state.


When you are at work, you think about it. When you walk down the street, things you see are reminding you of your passion. It’s like a song stuck in your head, and you just can’t shake it off.
Inspiration like this is what had taken hold of  our educational enthusiast this past year. And from their inspiration Everything Education has been born.
It started with early conversations about what teachers really want and need to help the education process. Our educators  have a combined experience of 30 plus years of working in schools, so if anyone were to know what a teacher really wants, it’s our enthusiasts.
These conversations soon turned into lists, and concrete ideas. And it was now that they realized it was not only store bought products that teachers needed, but things that they had created themselves that specifically fit to their lesson plans. They understand that all teachers teach a little differently, and sometimes need different teaching aids.
So why just sell products? Yes, we have flashcards, work books, stickers, magnets, stamps, test tubes, bulletin board borders, dice, erasers, paint, and a myriad other useful classroom materials. But what if there was a laminator, printer, poster maker, copier, and Ellison machine right at the teachers’ disposal? These tools would enrich the lessons that teachers teach, and thereby enrich the students.
This would be something that could change the way we educate. This gives teachers more power in their own classrooms. No longer is the lesson plan dependent on what Common Core workbooks are available. The lesson plans are what you make them to be, no more, and no less.
So why not use an even more valuable resource to help make the classroom even better? That resource would be other teachers, people with the same goals as you, just with a different idea of getting there.  That, combined with the tools needed for education, would create endless possibilities.

And these endless possibilities are what Everything Education represents. The real question unanswered here is, what are you going to do with it?

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