![]() ![]() The process as it stands now can take two months and cost more than a few erasers to complete.ĬlassWallet was built to streamline this workflow and has a lot of useful bells and whistles built in. While this may mean students getting supplies and tools more inline with their needs, the paperwork headache is likely to get worse for teachers. What’s more, according to Rosenberg, is that legislation in education has been following a “movement among thought leaders to push decisions closer to the child.” Now the teacher has two options: Either spend her own money and submit reimbursement, which follows the same teacher to school to district and back process or she can request a purchase order for the supplies she would like to purchase. To use the funds for her classroom, the teacher had to submit the check to her school, which in turn submitted it to the district, which deposited the money in a bank. In order to distribute the funds, the Foundation wrote a check to the teacher. In Rosenberg’s experience, whether a teacher is raising money for supplies, collecting money for a field trip, or receiving funds from a grant or the district itself, putting the money into an appropriate account, making it accessible, and tracking it all become major pain points.įor example, last year, the Jacksonville Teacher of the Year won a $500 grant from a local education fund. Previously he had founded the well-known Adopt A Classroom, which in the past 13 years has raised and distributed over $25M to 150,000 classrooms. Today, ClassWallet is launching out of private beta to offer up a better way for teachers to collect, manage, track, and even spend discretionary money for the classroom.ĬlassWallet was founded by Jamie Rosenberg, an attorney turned edtech entrepreneur. There are several common issues that every teacher faces when it comes to money, or lack of money, in the classroom. When it comes to keeping track of money for classroom expenses, collecting cash for field trips is just the tip of the iceberg. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |