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Excelligence Learning Corporation is a leading developer, manufacturer, and retailer of educational products, which are sold to child care programs, preschools, elementary schools, and consumers. Excelligence provides quality educational products and programs for children from infancy to 12 years of age. The Corporation offers a broad array of products designed for classroom use, enhanced by its extensive proprietary product development program. Its multi-channel distribution strategy including catalogs, websites, a field sales force, and an innovative way of distributing custom-packaged school supplies allows Excelligence to reach its customers in a variety of ways. Its warehousing capacity, which includes six locations nationwide, enables the timely delivery which is a strong competitive advantage. Excelligence publishes online Earlychildhood NEWS, a respected early childhood professional journal, and it offers on its websites a wide variety of free resources available to both teachers and parents. Excelligence's mission is to help further children's education beginning at birth and to support learning at school and at home by providing educators and parents with high quality products, services, and valuable resources.
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Discount School Supply (DSS), founded in 1985 by Excelligence CEO Ron Elliott, publishes one of the largest early childhood product catalogs in the marketplace. It is the recognized leader in the Arts & Crafts category, and DSS also offers top-quality curriculum-based products in 14 other categories including Manipulatives, Language, Science, Math, Social Awareness, Active Play, Dramatic Play, Equipment and Furniture and Teachers’ Resources. DSS has a significant offering of proprietary products and continually develops new products. With its 110% Price Guarantee, DSS offers the lowest prices on quality products for early childhood educators, caregivers and parents of young children. With four warehouses, DSS delivers to 98% of customers within two days. Its website www.DiscountSchoolSupply.com combines a complete product offering with MyCommunity, a varied offering of information and communication resources for educators. The blue and green DSS logo signifies its active support of solutions to fight global warming and to protect the environment and the futures of young children. Discount School Supply is based in Monterey, California. |
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Educational Products, Inc. (EPI), founded by a junior high school principal in 1980, is based in Dallas, Texas. EPI has four business channels: prepackaged school supplies, fund raising, apparel and science fair supplies. Its SchoolWrapPacs™ are packed to comply with supply lists supplied by teachers through their PTOs; there are custom packs for every grade within a school. The packs are built throughout the spring and summer and are delivered in the late summer and early fall to schools throughout the country. EPI’s fund-raising program complements its SchoolWrapPac™ business by selling into the same elementary school market, as do the apparel and science fair products. EPI sells through a national field sales force, and it offers apparel through several catalog mailings annually.
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Early Childhood Manufacturers’ Direct (ECMD) offers the largest assortment of early childhood furniture in the marketplace. Its unique catalog allows customers to compare all major manufacturers’ lines by item, showing all chairs together, all tables together, etc. Always 20-55% off suggested retail price, ECMD is the most economical, convenient, innovative showcase for early childhood furniture and equipment. Products are shipped direct from manufacturers. ECMD was acquired by Excelligence in 2003 and is based in Monterey, California.
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Founded in 1958, Angeles® is one of the most respected names in manufacturing for the early childhood classroom. With a range of products including furniture and storage items as well as items for active play, Angeles® is best-known for its popular Bye-Bye Buggies®, the classic SilverRider® tricycles, and the highly innovative SpaceLine® cots. Extensive testing and decades of customer feedback and experience are important contributors to every Angeles® product. The Angeles® commitment to quality, safety, and durability is evident in its product warranties. In fact, John Thompson, the long-time Angeles® craftsman known as “Mr. Good Pedal,” is able to repair any Angeles® tricycle purchased in the last forty years. Angeles® joined the Excelligence family of companies in 2007, where the brand will continue to grow and to earn the trust of early childhood educators worldwide.
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Earlychildhood NEWS is has served educators for 18 years. Now published exclusively online, it continues to be a respected resource for teachers and parents of children, infants to age 8. It offers articles on developmentally appropriate practices, child health, safety and behavior. It hosts professional discussion boards and also publishes NEWSLink, a bi-weekly e-newsletter for teachers, providing links to relevant current news stories as well as activity ideas, featured crafts, advice from early childhood experts, and more. Earlychildhood NEWS also sponsors the Directors’ Choice Awards, an annual awards program which recognizes excellence in the design and manufacture of products for the early childhood classroom.
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| MyCommunity is an online section of www.DiscountSchoolSupply.com and offers educators and care providers a rich resource of arts & crafts and curriculum activities, MyPerfectClassroom space-saving ideas, contests, information on assessment tools, online discussion boards, teacher-recommended products, and other Teachers' Resources such as grant information and state-specific resources. Teachers can share activities and earn coupons for quality educational products, as well as easily link to all other areas of the DSS website. |
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QuickSource® is a comprehensive resource tailored to meet educators’ specific needs and the needs of the children in their care. Teachers can find step-by-step activities, materials lists and outcomes all in one, convenient place. The Preschool and Head Start QuickSource® sites provide curriculum-based, developmentally-appropriate activities and products correlated to NAEYC Accredidation Standards and eight domains of learning, (language development, literacy, math, science, creative arts, social & emotional development, approaches to learning, and physical health & development,) compatible with most curricula. |
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