The Company
As experienced and successful professionals with expertise in diverse areas of multidisciplinary instruction, EDUCATION: GET REAL!!! authors willingly share their innovative approaches to teaching and their personally-developed intellectual properties with other educators via the Teachers Pay Teachers (TpT) website. By using our materials, students better understand and connect what they are learning in the classroom with the expectations of higher education and the ever-changing demands of the "Real World."
EDUCATION: GET REAL!!! (EGR) was launched on January 1, 2006, an educational company established by teachers and other professionals. EGR team members have many years of combined professional experience and expertise as teachers, professors, and business executives instructing students and employees in these areas: Economics, Entrepreneurship, Information Technology, Desktop Publishing, Finance, Language Arts, Marketing, Business, Web Design, Communications, Special Education, Physical Education, and Mathematics & Statistics.
EDUCATION: GET REAL!!!
- Digital resources are available in our store on Teachers Pay Teachers and may be purchased as BUNDLES or as individual components/chapters/worksheets/etc.
- Resources are AFFORDABLE, copyrighted, all-inclusive, and provide teachers with EVERYTHING they need for successful instruction.
- Materials save teachers TIME, hours of WORK, and thousands of $$$$'s -- the work has already been done by experienced teachers (EGR authors) and most are interdisciplinary/integrated.
- Authorized users may reproduce rubrics, hand-outs, etc. from EGR resources for their classroom needs ONLY.
- Provides educators in different parts of the country with current and relevant instructional materials -- NO TEXTBOOKS.
- Creates "Real World" connections between curriculum areas and disciplines by building communication links to benefit students.
Contact Us
Office Location
Our office truly is a "virtual office" since we make our materials available on Teachers Pay Teachers. The management team resides in the front-range area of Colorado.
Office Hours
Monday - Friday: 9:00 am - 5:00 pm Mountain Time
Send Us a Message
If you have a concern about what we have advertised on Teachers Pay Teachers or wish to bring another matter to our attention, we invite you to complete the Message Form below to help us better fulfill your instructional needs. Please be prepared to share all of the required information that we are requesting. Your details will be held in the strictest confidence and will not be passed on to any third parties. The Message Form information is automatically submitted to EGR when you hit the submit button. An automatic response will be sent to you in an email which will contain the information you shared with us. That will be followed up in a timely manner with a personal response from a member of our EGR team.
EDUCATION: GET REAL!!! values your input, ideas, expertise, and suggestions. We thank you for contacting us.
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Personal Profiles
The EDUCATION: GET REAL!!! (EGR) managing partners have successful classroom experience in staff development and in teaching: Secondary -- grades 7-12; and Post-secondary -- business/technical college, adult education, community college, and on the university level (teaching undergraduate and graduate courses). The EGR partners have received awards and have been recognized for their outstanding leadership and curriculum development by their peers, administration, and the business community on the local, state, and national level.
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GLORIA HENDERSON, M.Ed.
Gloria's students have participated in numerous activities such as the JA Sponsored Golf Classic, Colorado Business Hall of Fame, Denver Distinguished Lecture Series, the JA Student Ambassador Program, and they have received the Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. She engaged her students in an international student exchange with Mexico City, and she served as an advisor of the Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) chapters in several secondary schools. Gloria has co-authored three EDUCATION: GET REAL!!! instructional digital materials for teachers on the Teachers Pay Teachers website, and she is the author of Financial Literacy - "The Money Trail" and several History materials. Gloria received her Bachelors of Science degree in Business Teacher Education and Economics from the University of Nebraska, and her Master of Science Degree in Education from Leslie University in Cambridge, MA. Gloria is the EDUCATION: GET REAL!!! Chief Financial Officer, a business principal, and a teacher trainer. |
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KAREN STARK, M.Ed.
Karen has served on and chaired several integrated learning curriculum development writing teams in her school district, and she has extensive team-teaching experience in the areas of English/ELA, Business, Computer Science, and Journalism. She has given several presentations on the subject of integration/interdisciplinary teaching. Karen has been a Future Business Leaders of America (FBLA) advisor for many years in several secondary schools. Karen has received numerous awards and commendations for her years of service to education, and was selected teacher of the year in four different secondary schools in Colorado. She has authored and co-authored seven EGR teacher instructional digital materials for Teachers Pay Teachers, and she is the EGR desktop publisher and graphic designer for all publications and the website. Karen received a Bachelors of Science degree from the University of Northern Colorado in Business Education (minor in English), a Master of Science Degree in Computer Education from Leslie University in Cambridge, MA, and she has many post-graduate hours of study in the areas of computers and business. Karen is the EDUCATION: GET REAL!!! Chief Executive Officer, a business principal, a teacher trainer, a desktop publisher, and the EGR website administrator.
Are you tired of "REINVENTING THE WHEEL?" If so, check out Education Get Real on TPT! |
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Gloria is a Colorado teacher who has taught numerous business courses at the secondary level (accounting, business finance, keyboarding, business law, computers, entrepreneurship, etc.) and at the post-secondary level (accounting courses). She has incorporated interdisciplinary instruction using the business entrepreneurial approach in her economics classes. Gloria facilitated over 40 student business enterprises within the classes whereby students organized, operated, and liquidated a student company offering them a "real world" approach to learning. She has been honored by Junior Achievement (JA) for her work in economics and her participation in the organization, receiving national awards and commendations. 
Karen is a Colorado teacher and the originator/creator of EDUCATION: GET REAL!!! She is a secondary teacher and has taught business courses (computers, entrepreneurship, accounting, keyboarding, business law, journalism, etc.), computer programming, and English/Language Arts with an emphasis on interdisciplinary & integrated instruction and team teaching. Karen taught entrepreneurial courses whereby her students created/operated/liquidated several in-school student businesses, established and managed school stores, and engaged in three different international student exchanges with Belfast, N. Ireland.
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