How Did You Meet Us?
Posted by Hope Spencer on 02 Jul 2009 | Posted in: Grade 1, Grades 2-3, Intermediate, Kindergarten, Preschool, Teacher's Helper, The Mailbox, The Mailbox Books
| During my second year of teaching, I was across the hall from an incredible teacher named Ms. Dunn. Ms. Dunn shared so many wonderful teacher secrets with me! I couldn’t wait to see what she had planned each day. Her students were always engaged in the best learning games, and everything in her room was so organized. People stopped by to see her colorful wall displays, and she knew all kinds of tips and shortcuts. After several months of copying what she was doing, I was convinced that she was the smartest teacher ever! I was surprised when she handed me an issue of The Mailbox® magazine. “Take this,” she said. “The ideas are in here.” |  |
Well, I did take that issue and I read it from cover to cover. After I marked all of the ideas I wanted to use with sticky notes, I knew I had to get my own subscription. Later, I subscribed to Teacher’s Helper® magazine, too. I was really hooked! It wasn’t long before I was submitting my own ideas to the magazine and using the gift certificates to buy other Mailbox products. And, I was recommending the magazines to all the new teachers I worked with!
Hey, this makes me curious: how were you introduced to The Mailbox family? I’d love to know. Leave a comment and tell me your story—I’m eager to hear from you!
All the best,
Hope
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I got my first copy of Mailbox my first year teaching school. My mentoring teacher pulled out several dog eared copies and told me that I could have them. I called all the local teacher stores and no one had them. I went to the school library and flipped when I saw them there! I took one of the cards and have been a subscriber ever since. This year I submitted my first idea and I am excited to see it in print. Thank you for the great job you do, it makes mine easier!
As a new teacher, I scrounged for anything that would enhance my bare-bones classroom and entice my high-needs population to look forward to stepping into the class environment. One Saturday, as I followed signs to a yard sale that promised KIDS BOOKS, it started to drizzle. By the time I found the location, the seller was frantic to get her inventory in our of the gathering storm. She was glad to push piles of books and old teacher magazines into a giant box, which she then gave me for $1! I spend the summer reading Mailbox and Worksheet Magazine (I think that’s what it was called - it’s now Teacher’s Helper). Even somewhat soggy, the treasures brought sunshine into my classroom for years!
I was introduced to the Mailbox magazine when my sister Sakina sent me an issue as I am associated with a school in India. my staff and I were amazed at the beautifully presented ideas. As we at present are unable to subsribe we wait for the sale if backdated issues i.e. the mailbox year books.
hope we shall one day be able to subscribe the current issues.
I was introduced to The Mailbox while working on my teaching degree. I used it during my student teaching and my first long term sub job. I have been a subscriber ever since and can’t wait for each new issue. It’s like opening a gift with so many wonderful new ideas to go along with the previous ones. Thanks for such a wonderful resource!!
I went back to work as a preschool director after taking about eight years off to raise my three girls. The former director had subscribed to The Mailbox for her staff and after viewing a few issues I was convinced that this was one of the best resources I could offer my teachers. Now I am back in my own instructional support classroom and am using many Mailbox resources every day.
I got my subscription of Mailbox while in college getting my degree. It was a Christmas gift from my mother. Each year under the tree is an envelope with a note saying I get another year.
It has become the first thing I grab for when I need a new idea. In fact most months there aren’t enough days for all the ideas I want to try!
I nannied for a family during college, and my employer was a former teacher. As a graduation gift, she hand me a current copy of The Mailbox and a certificate of subscription to the magazine. She told me it was a great classroom tool that she wanted to share with me. Very sweet!
I graduated in 1989 with my teaching degree and asked for a subscription to “The Mailbox” magazine as one of my gifts. I have been hooked ever since and still get excited when it comes in the mail! I have seen many changes with the magazine and have saved them all. However, last year I did go through all of them and decided to “downsize”. I decided to save the issues from the last five years. I did not throw the older ones away, I just looked through them and cut out the ideas I liked. I have submitted ideas and have read some really great ones from others. Keep up the SUPER job! The magazine is fun, colorful, gives many ideas, covers all subjects and is always willing to get ideas and make changes. I wish it was a monthly magazine instead for bi-monthly. I would love to get an issue each month.
I started reading The Mailbox when I was teaching at Head`Start. I loved the ideas, so I bought th yearbook. I now own a childcare center and when a new teacher starts, the first book I hand her is The Mailbox.
Like many of your readers I got a subscription to the Mailbox when I was in college. The magazines helped me plan extraordinary lessons. I am currently a (low paid) substitute and cannot afford a subscription, but I do look back on many years of mags that I saved.
I was first introduced to the Mailbox in 2003 when I was a substitute teacher. Of course the coming year when I went into the classroom I knew I needed to have the subscription for my classroom. I used it 4 years when I taught Pre-K and now I use it for 1st grade. I love it! And I recommend it to anyone who hasn’t heard of the Mailbox.
I first discovered Mailbox magazine when I was in college training to become a teacher. One of my professors came in one day with sample that she passed around the room and then told us that the library carried back issues that we could search through for ideas. Oh my gosh! I remember sitting for HOURS and HOURS going through those stacks and writing down ideas and tips in my notebook to use one day in my classroom. I also put MANY dimes in the copier to make copies of the pages to add to my “curriculum boxes” that we had to make. I even told my Mom that year that for Christmas I wanted a subscription to Mailbox Intermediate since I planned on teaching grades 4-6. What a joy it was to get my first issue! I still have all of my issues and have my subscription paid for the next 3 years! I have submitted a lot of ideas to Mailbox and love using the gift certificates to buy MORE Mailbox products. You guys are a teacher’s best friend!!!!