Friday, October 26, 2018

Teachers as Entrepreneurs

Today I met with a teacher, Jodi McMaster, at Harvest Elementary School in Saline, Michigan. A few years ago she had a breakthrough and developed an activity to teach vowel sounds to young children.

She then published her work privately and has sold thousands of books and hundreds of kits. Haven't we all had some good ideas we wanted to share with the world? I would urge all of you to consider stepping out of that zone of safety you may have created.

The vowels interact in the funniest of ways
Her kit is beginning to get very popular and today representatives from state government, local government, and EMU (I'm the bald guy), got to see her kit at work with her students.


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