Educator Offerings
ACR loves educators! We have a variety of programs for educators to get supplies for their classrooms, without breaking their budgets, as well as educational opportunities for students.
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Field Trips
LEARN ABOUT THE VALUE OF REUSE
For a uniquely hands-on experience, Austin Creative Reuse offers field trips for preschoolers through high schoolers at affordable rates. Submit an interest form here.
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Materials Mobile
INVITE US TO YOUR SCHOOL
ACR’s Materials Mobile is a truck full of school supplies that we bring directly to your school so educators can stock their classrooms. Request a visit today!
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Bulk Reuse Materials
INTEGRATE REUSE IN YOUR CLASSROOM
Want some FREE* reuse materials to stock your classroom with? Submit a bulk order today! (* Note: All orders subject to mandatory $10 order fee.)
ACR’s Pay What You Can
Educator Extravaganza
Saturday August 9th
Sale: 7am-11am | Resource Fair: 8:30am-11am
Hosted outside at Austin Creative Reuse: 2005 Wheless Ln.
Join us for our annual Pay What You Can Educator Extravaganza! This one-day event is exclusively for educators in our community, and is a giant outdoor ‘unsale’ full of teaching materials and creative supplies of all kinds. Come stock your classroom and learn from local orgs how to bring sustainability and conservation into your classroom.
Educator Extravaganza FAQs
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We will have lots of supplies including:
Paper, notebooks, folders, binders & more
Writing & coloring utensils
Science supplies/ kits
Books (chapter and kid’s)
Office supplies
Creative supplies (fabric, stamps, paper mache)
And more!
Please note that all supplies are limited and we can not guarantee stock of any particular item.
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We welcome all public educators and educators that work with a CCS (Child Care Scholarship) contracted Early Learning Program.
All educators will need to provide some form of credential to be admitted (school ID, paystub, school/ facility website with name/photo, etc.)
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This means that all the materials are being provided on a donation basis! We understand that teachers are often asked to stock their classrooms from their own pockets, and that this both is an undue burden on the teacher, and does not create equitable outcomes for students, and we want to help alleviate that disparity.
We’ll ask each educator what they would like to pay, and we encourage them to contribute as much as they can, and no more. On average, educators have paid about half of the ‘ACR value’ of items, which is typically 30% of what materials would cost new.
We also encourage everyone, not just educators, to make a financial donation to help us continue programs such as this!
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This year, we are teaming up with AISD’s Office of Sustainability to bring local organizations to this event!
From 8:30am-11am, teachers can connect with local orgs that focus on bringing sustainability, environmental education, and STEAM into the classroom.
Partners include: EcoRISE, National Wildlife Federation, Keep Austin Beautiful and more!
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Goodwill will be providing surplus office supplies and classroom tech, including some standing desks, monitors, projectors and more! They will not have as much large furniture pieces as last year.
Resource Fair Partners
Did you know that we have a quarterly newsletter dedicated entirely to educator interests?