About Teacher Created Resources
Teacher Created Resources was founded in 1982 by Mary Dupuy Smith, a classroom teacher who started the company around a simple premise: products designed by people who actually taught, not by publishers guessing at classroom needs. More than four decades later the company is still family owned and operates out of Garden Grove, California, where it serves PreK through Grade 8 educators with curriculum resource books, classroom decor, and organizational materials.
The catalog spans well beyond plan books: Better Than Paper® bulletin board paper (a company-exclusive alternative the brand markets as more durable and easier to hang than traditional roll paper), curriculum-rich resource books across Math, Science, and Language Arts, and a wide range of manipulatives, incentive charts, and classroom-decor collections. The Chalkboard Brights Teacher Plan Book that earned this recognition reflects that same teacher-built philosophy: an eight-column weekly layout designed around how secondary schedules actually run, at a price point that keeps it accessible for teachers restocking their own classrooms.
Brand website: teachercreated.com
What Teacher Created Resources makes
Teacher Created Resources's range runs wider than the products we review. The lines we know best from our own testing are marked with a star:
Teacher Plan Books & Planners
Dated academic-year plan books with multi-column weekly layouts for lesson planning — featured on DeskRated
Classroom Décor
Bulletin board sets, posters, stickers, and incentive charts
Better Than Paper® Bulletin Board Paper
The company's exclusive bulletin board paper alternative
Curriculum Resource Books
Subject-specific teaching resources for Math, Science, and Language Arts
Manipulatives & Classroom Organizers
Hands-on learning tools and classroom organization products
Games & Learning Activities
Educational games and activity sets for PreK-8 classrooms
Why we recognized Teacher Created Resources
The DeskRated Top Brand recognition isn't paid for and can't be applied for. We award it to the brands whose products consistently stand out in our hands-on category reviews. Teacher Created Resources earned it on the strength of the products below, evaluated the same way every product on this site is: bought, used at a real desk, and judged on merit.
Teacher Created Resources products we rated highly
Teacher Created Resources Chalkboard Brights Teacher Plan Book
This plan book packs eight subject and period columns into every weekly spread, flexing across six-, seven-, and eight-period secondary schedules without forcing teachers to squeeze or combine columns. It has earned more than 3,200 verified Amazon reviews at a 4.7-star average, the deepest review base of any plan book in our testing, and the Chalkboard Brights design reads as classroom-appropriate rather than distracting.
Read the 7 Best Teacher Planners of 2026 guide →What earned Teacher Created Resources the recognition
- Over 3,200 verified Amazon reviews at a 4.7-star average for the Chalkboard Brights Teacher Plan Book, the strongest social-proof signal of any plan book in our teacher planner testing.
- Eight subject/period columns per weekly spread accommodate six- through eight-period secondary schedules in a single layout.
- Family-owned educational publisher operating for more than 45 years, founded in 1982 by a classroom teacher who built the company around real classroom needs.
- A broad catalog beyond plan books, including the company-exclusive Better Than Paper® bulletin board paper and curriculum resource books across core subjects.
- Headquartered in Garden Grove, California, serving PreK-8 educators with décor, manipulatives, and organizational materials alongside its planning products.