Share Your Story
You did something with it.
Tell us what happened.
A classroom in South Bend. A rec center gym on a Tuesday night. A kitchen table. Wherever you opened the box, somebody learned something — and the part we never get to see is what that looked like in your room.
Tell us and we will listen properly. The good, the awkward, and the thing you had to change to make it work.
How it works
Three steps, and you stay in control of all of them.
We are asking for something real: your name, your room, and sometimes your students. So here is exactly what happens after you hit send.
A paragraph is plenty. What you ran, who it was for, and what you noticed. If it did not go to plan, that is worth more to us than if it did.
Often with a question or two, because the specific detail is what makes a story useful to the next teacher. If you have photographs, that is when we will sort out how to send them.
We send you the exact words and pictures we want to publish, and we wait. If you would rather we did not, we do not.
About photographs, and about children
We will not publish a picture of a student without a release.
- If there are identifiable students in a photograph, we need your school or program’s own media release to cover it. We will ask you to confirm that before anything is published — not afterwards.
- If a release does not cover every child in the frame, send the picture anyway and tell us. Very often there is a crop that works, and we would rather solve it with you than lose the story.
- We do not use anyone’s name, school or likeness in advertising without asking for that specifically. Appearing on this page is not the same as appearing in an ad.
- You can ask us to take it down at any time, for any reason, and we will — without asking you why.
Featured story
Skylar Thomas — South Bend, Indiana.
A classroom teacher who ran Classroom TO GO with her own students, and sat down with us afterwards to talk about how it actually went.
The interview has been recorded but the copy is not written yet. This slot takes one pull quote of roughly 25 to 40 words, her name, role and school, and two or three short paragraphs drawn from the interview: what she was teaching, what she was worried about beforehand, and what changed once the boxes were open.
Needed: the approved quote, her title and school as she wants them printed, and her sign-off on both.One landscape photograph of her classroom mid-activity — hands on the materials rather than a posed line-up. If a second is available, a wider one showing the room.
1800 × 1350 px, 4:3, JPEG. A student media release is required if any child is identifiable.More stories
Four kinds of room, four kinds of story.
These are the groups we already have material for. Each card below becomes a real story with a photograph and a quote as the copy and permissions come in.
Teachers running Classroom TO GO on their own schedule. The strongest version of this story names the grade, the subject and the week it ran.
1400 × 1050 px, 4:3. Needed: two to four quotes with names, roles and schools.Site leads who ran a camp without a specialist on staff. Rhye: “lots of teachers who have used our Camps well.”
1400 × 1050 px, 4:3. Needed: the camp, the site, the number of campers, and a quote.Groups who came to us, or events we brought to them. Photographs exist for these already.
1400 × 1050 px, 4:3. Needed: which trips, and permission for the pictures already on file.Partners who asked for something that did not exist yet — NAPA’s Drive Into STEM Challenge, and the Teacher Tami mathematics project.
1400 × 1050 px, 4:3. Needed: partner sign-off, since these quotes speak for another brand.Families and rec centers, which is the setting we can least prove and most want to. Even one good one changes who feels invited by this page.
1400 × 1050 px, 4:3. Needed: anything at all, honestly.This slot stays a slot on purpose. The page should visibly have room in it, so that the invitation below reads as real rather than decorative.
No image. Keep this card.What people are telling us about
If you used one of these, we want to hear it.
Not a shopping list — a prompt. If you recognize what you ran, that is the story we are asking for.
Somebody is deciding right now whether this works in a room like theirs.
They will not be convinced by us. They will be convinced by you — by a teacher with the same grade, the same period length and the same budget, saying what actually happened.
Nothing is committed by sending this, and nothing is published without your say-so. Or call (866) 381-1760, Monday to Friday, 9:00 to 5:00 Central. A person picks up.