Okay, so I know it’s summer and the last thing any teacher wants to think about right now is the fall. I get it, I really do. You just finished a whole school year of lesson plans and parent emails, all while teaching the next generation on a daily basis. You deserve to not think about any of that for a while. But here’s the thing about summer: it goes fast. And every teacher I’ve ever talked to says the same thing, which is that August sneaks up on you in the worst possible way and suddenly you’re scrambling to get your classroom together.

So I’m going to talk to you now, while you still have a minute to breathe, because I think we can actually help you out. And I mean that genuinely, not in a marketing-speak kind of way.

Back to School Is Back to School, No Matter What Grade You Teach

One of the things I love about teachers is there’s this shared experience that cuts across every grade level and every subject. It doesn’t matter if you’re a kindergarten teacher trying to figure out how to make the alphabet feel exciting for the fourteenth year in a row, or a high school chemistry teacher, or a history professor at a university somewhere. Back to school is back to school. There’s the supply ordering, the room setup, the bulletin boards, the “how do I communicate with this new group of humans” problem that starts fresh every single September. The chaos is universal.

And it’s in that chaos that we think Chalk Ink® can actually be useful in ways you might not have considered yet.

What You Can Actually Do With These Markers in a Classroom

Here’s the thing about Chalk Ink® markers that I want you to know: they work on basically any non-porous surface, AND they wipe off cleanly when you’re ready to change things up. That combination is genuinely powerful in a classroom setting because classrooms are dynamic. You need things you can update.

Write on your desks. Write on your whiteboard. Write on your lockers, your windows, your doors. Welcome your new class on the first day with something written on the window that makes them feel like they’re walking into a room where someone thought about them. Change your agenda on the desk surface instead of printing a new sheet every morning. Label things, organize things, color-code things in a way that actually sticks visually because the color is bold and the marker doesn’t fade into the background.

And if you’re a gym teacher or a coach, and I always want to give a special shoutout to the gym teachers and coaches because I feel like they get forgotten in these conversations, you can write on the floor. Like, actual court lines, game boundaries, drill markers, team assignments. The floor is a surface and our markers work on it and I think that’s kind of a big deal for you specifically.

The Discount, Because That’s Obviously Important

We have always offered a teacher discount, and we always will, because teachers spend their own money on their classrooms constantly, and that is kind of wild when you think about it, and we want to help where we can. The discount is up to 20% off anything on the Chalk Ink® site, and the code is TEACHERS20. Just put that in at checkout and it’ll take care of itself.

You can also reach out to us directly if you have questions about the discount or want to talk through what might work best for your specific situation. We’re a real company with real people answering the phone and we genuinely like talking to teachers.

School Purchase Orders and Going Tax-Exempt

This is the part where it gets a little more logistical, so stay with me. If you want your school to participate, meaning you want to get markers for the whole faculty or for your whole department, you can send us a school purchase order and you can be tax-exempt on that order. This is especially useful if you’re trying to get supplies approved through your school’s budget process rather than doing it out of pocket, which, again, you really shouldn’t have to be doing out of pocket.

We’re also available on Amazon and through Staples Business, so if your school has purchasing arrangements with either of those, you can go that route too. We try to be wherever you actually need us to be.

Some Videos Are Coming and I’m Kind of Excited About Them

We’re working on putting together some video content specifically for teachers, which is going to be ideas for the classroom, ways to use the markers for organizing and decorating and communicating with your students, that kind of thing. I’ll be honest that we’re still figuring out exactly what those are going to look like, because that’s just the truth, but they’re coming and I think they’re going to be genuinely helpful rather than just content for content’s sake.

Keep an eye on the blog and our social channels for those. And if you have specific ideas for what you’d want to see, classroom problems you’re trying to solve, things you wish you had a creative solution for, honestly just tell us. We want to make things that are actually useful to you.

Okay, Go Enjoy the Rest of Your Summer

That’s really all I wanted to say. Chalk Ink® is your friend, we mean that, and we want to be part of making the back-to-school season a little less overwhelming and maybe even a little more fun. Use the code, reach out if you have questions, watch for the videos.

And everybody, have a great summer. You’ve earned it.

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Til Next Time.