Teacher Created Materials Timeline

Travel through time with Teacher Created Materials from a two-person operation to the innovative, quality-oriented company we are today.

1977
Publication of Quick Fun Art
1980
Publication of My Body
1983
TCM exhibits at the International Reading Association (IRA) conference for the first time
1983
Rachelle leaves the classroom and moves TCM out of her house into the first office building in Huntington Beach, CA
1987
Launch of the International Division
1988
TCM continues to grow and moves into a larger building in Huntington Beach, CA
1988
First published Literature and Critical Thinking books
1988
First TCM "Make it and Take it" seminar
1990
My Body activities appear on the set of the movie Kindergarten Cop
1991
My Body activities appear in Life Magazine
1991
The growth continues as TCM moves into a larger building in Westminster, CA
1994
First "Technology for Terrified Teachers" user-friendly seminar
1996
Launch of the TCM Curriculum Division with TechWorks
1998
TCM breaks ground on the second building in Westminster.
2000
Distinguished Achievement Award Finalist - TechWorks
2000
Partnership with TIME For Kids® Magazine to publish Write Time for Kids
2001
Launch of the TCM Social Studies Division with Exploring History
2001
Write Time for Kids wins the Golden Lamp Award from the Association of Educational Publishers
2002
Distinguished Achievement Award - TechTools Resource Kits
2003
Distinguished Achievement Award - Primary Sources
2003
Teacher's Choice Award from Learning Magazine - Exploring Nonfiction: Reading in the Content Areas
2003
Teacher's Choice Award from Learning Magazine - TechTools Resource Kit for Inspiration®
2003
Teacher Raves from Scholastic Instructor Magazine - TechTools Resource Kit for Kidspiration®
2003
Orange County Contractor of the Year for working with persons with disabilities and economic disadvantages
2004
TCM makes its latest move back to Huntington Beach, CA
2004
Launch of the TCM Math Division with Exploring Math
2004
Teacher's Choice Award from Learning Magazine - Exploring History: Ancient Rome
2005
Best Product of 2005 from Instructor Magazine Primary Source Readers: Expanding & Preserving the Union
2005
Teacher's Choice Award from Learning Magazine Social Studies Strategies for Active Learning
2005
Primary Source Readers: Early America wins the Golden Lamp Award from the Association of Educational Publishers
2006
Partnership with Texas Instruments to publish TechTools Resource Kit for TI Graphing Calculators
2006
TCM products are sold into 89 countries
2007
Launch of Sally Ride Science: Science Readers
2007
Teacher's Choice Award from Learning Magazine - Exploring Writing
2008
Distinguished Achievement Award - Teaching Reading in the Content Areas for Elementary Teachers, Leveled Texts for Social Studies series, Reading and Writing Strategies series (Science and Social Studies), Exploring Nonfiction: A Differentiated Content-Area Reading Program, Science Readers series, Exploring History Through Primary Sources: Elections, Exploring History Through Primary Sources: Communities Around the World, TechTools Resource Kit for Digital Movie Making, and Elections