Teachers 4 Teachers

What Teachers 4 Teachers does

Teachers 4 Teachers (legally Teachers 4 Teachers Publications Pty Ltd) is an Australian educational publishing company founded in 2005 and headquartered in Taren Point, NSW, operating with a small team of 7 employees. The company produces printed educational resources for Australian primary and secondary schools, including workbooks, resource boxes, teacher manuals, and supplementary digital materials, spanning 25+ product series across literacy, numeracy, wellbeing, humanities, and handwriting. Certain catalog items, including the My Useful Word Books series, trace heritage back to 1988, predating the company's legal incorporation.

The company executes a direct-to-consumer e-commerce model through a BigCommerce storefront, selling primarily to schools (B2B) with secondary reach to individual teachers and parents (B2C). Product prices range from $6.95 for individual books to $924 for comprehensive bundled resource boxes such as the Mentals Resource Box. The technology stack is conventional catalog e-commerce with limited digital supplements — free online activities, web-based resources, and audio components — rather than a software platform.

Name

Teachers 4 Teachers

Legal name

Teachers 4 Teachers Publications Pty Ltd

Website

https://teachers4teachers.com.au

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Short description

Teachers 4 Teachers is a small Australian educational publisher producing printed and supplementary digital resources — workbooks, resource boxes, and teacher manuals — for primary and secondary schools, selling direct via e-commerce.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Educational Publishing

NAICS

Book Publishers (513130)

SIC

Books: Publishing Or Publishing & Printing (2731)

akta.pro primary industry

Core Subject Textbooks (ELA, Math, Science, Social Studies) (EDAGAAAA)

akta.pro secondary industries

Children’s Activity & Practice Books (Workbooks, Puzzles, Handwriting) (EDAGAIAE), Children’s Nonfiction Educational (Science, History, Nature) (EDAGAIAC)

Keywords

• Educational publishing
• Primary school resources
• Curriculum-aligned workbooks
• Teacher resource boxes
• Literacy and numeracy materials

Headquarters

HQ city

Taren Point

HQ country

Australia

HQ region

Oceania

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Physical Educational Resources Sales: One-time purchase of printed workbooks, teacher guides, and resource boxes for Australian primary schools. Products range from individual student workbooks ($7.50-$23.95) to comprehensive boxed kits ($898-$924).
2. Teacher Resource Books: Supplementary teacher edition books with games, lesson plans and assessment tools sold alongside student workbooks for enhanced classroom implementation.
3. Digital Content Access: Free digital resources (sound bar videos, digital teachers books, printable games) provided with proof of purchase of class sets. Schools receive 12 months free access upon purchase verification.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels5 records

Core offering

Teachers 4 Teachers publishes and sells printed educational resources — student workbooks, teacher manuals with games and lesson plans, and comprehensive multi-level resource boxes — for Australian primary and secondary schools. The portfolio spans literacy, numeracy, handwriting, wellbeing, humanities and assessment, with class-set purchasers receiving bundled free digital content (sound bar videos, digital teacher's books, printable games) via Flickrocket. Sales are conducted direct-to-consumer through a BigCommerce e-commerce website with phone and email support.

Product overview

Teachers 4 Teachers is an Australian educational publisher offering a comprehensive portfolio of teaching resources across multiple subject areas. The company provides physical workbooks, teacher guides, and teaching aids primarily for Australian primary and secondary schools. The product portfolio includes: literacy resources (Reading Boxes, Spelling Conventions, Grammar Conventions, Reading Conventions, Structured Synthetic Phonics & Spelling, Alphabet Sounds and Writing Scrapbook, Reading Diary and Word Books, My Useful Word Book); mathematics resources (Essential Mentals, Maths Boxes, Problem Solved, Enhancement Maths); wellbeing resources (My Wellbeing Journals for primary and high school, My Wellbeing Teacher Planner); handwriting resources (Handwriting Conventions for NSW, QLD, and VIC, Connected Handwriting Queensland, Reflective Handwriting); humanities resources (History Now, Science Now, Geography Now); and assessment tools (Continuous Assessment Check List). Many products include complementary teacher manuals with games and activities. The company also offers digital content access through Flickrocket and free online resources for schools that purchase class sets.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Reflective Handwriting K-7 A comprehensive seven-book series (K-6) crafted to support the development of essential skills for writing in Foundation Handwriting style, aligned with NSW syllabus guidelines.
• Essential Mentals A cohesive mentals series for Years 1-6 addressing the major components of Mathematics (Number and Algebra, Measurement and Space, Statistics and Probability) and correlating to the new Australian Mathematics curriculum (2022-2024).
• Reading Box Yellow Multi-level, multi-text type reading comprehension kit for Years 1-2 with 150 full-colour laminated cards spread over 15 levels, covering reading ages 5.6 to 11.
• Reading Box Blue Reading comprehension kit for Years 2-4 covering reading levels 10 to 30+ (reading ages 6 to 12) with 150 full-colour laminated cards.
• Reading Box Red Reading comprehension kit for Years 4-5/6 covering reading levels 16 to 34+ (reading ages 7 to 13.9) with 150 full-colour laminated cards across 15 levels.
• Reading Box Green Reading comprehension kit for Years 5-8 covering reading levels 22 to 36 (reading ages 8 to 15.5) with 144 full-colour laminated cards plus Rapid Reader cards.
• Structured Synthetic Phonics & Spelling (SSPS) Early literacy spelling series for Foundation to Year 2 following a synthetic phonics teaching sequence, designed to be taught over a three-year period, with accompanying digital resources including sound bar animated videos.
• My Wellbeing Journals (Primary) Personal journal spaces for Foundation to Year 6 students to express feelings, fears, goals, struggles and opinions, focusing on self-management, self-awareness, social awareness, relationship skills and responsible decision making.
• My Wellbeing Journals - High School Series Wellbeing journals for Years 7-12 covering developing coping skills, building resilience, respectful relationships, goal setting, growth mindset and mindfulness.
• My Wellbeing Teacher Planner Colour-coded teacher planner divided into four school terms with 11 weeks per term, including daily to-do lists, wellbeing focus, assessment checklists and professional development logs.
• Grammar Conventions Market-leading series of pupil workbooks and teacher resource books covering Years 1-6, providing colourful, engaging activities that fulfil Australian Curriculum English requirements.
• Reading Conventions Years 1-6 reading comprehension series with specific focus on inferencing, systematically providing activities based on Australian Curriculum comprehension and reading requirements.
• Spelling Conventions Whole-school curriculum-based phonics and word knowledge series including high-frequency words, from Foundation to Year 6, revised to address Australian Curriculum changes.
• Handwriting Conventions NSW Foundation to Year 6 handwriting series designed to address the teaching of Foundation handwriting style, written and illustrated by experienced Australian teacher Steve Murray.
• Handwriting Conventions Queensland P-7 handwriting series using Queensland Modern Cursive font, designed by experienced Australian teacher Stephen Murray.
• Handwriting Conventions Victoria P-6 handwriting series using Victorian Cursive font, written by Stephen Murray.
• Connected Handwriting Queensland P-6 handwriting series following Australian Curriculum for Queensland guidelines with cross-curriculum approach, incorporating animal kingdom, Australian landforms and other educational themes.
• Maths Box Lime Multi-level problem-solving resource for Years 1-2/3 with 300 large laminated activity exercises covering 30 topics, addressing Australian Curriculum requirements.
• Maths Box Orange Multi-level problem-solving resource for Years 3-4/5, written by experienced Australian teachers, addressing Australian Curriculum rigours.
• Maths Box Aqua Premium problem-solving resource for Years 5-6/7 with 30 Australian Curriculum topic card sets covering all strands.
• History Now Years F-6 Australian history series enhancing students' historical knowledge of people and events that have shaped Australia's society, culture and landscape.
• Science Now Years 1-6 science series supporting the Australian Curriculum Science component, developing students' understanding of biological, chemical, physical and astronomical sciences.
• Geography Now Years 1-6 geography series supporting Geography, Civics and Citizenship and Economics and Business strands of the Australian Curriculum in Humanities and Social Sciences.
• Alphabet Sounds and Writing Scrapbook Foundation Year student resource for letter recognition and related letter sounds, also developing handwriting skills in Foundation Font or Queensland Beginners Alphabet Script.
• Reading Diary and Word Books Motivational tool for children to record reading development, combining diary and word book for Foundation to Year 6.
• Problem Solved Years 1-6 mathematical problem-solving series providing students opportunities to apply numeracy skills, covering whole number, fractions, patterns, measurement, geometry and statistics.
• My Useful Word Book Australia's best-selling early learning word book since 1988, providing key high-frequency words for each letter of the alphabet with room for children to add their own words.
• Continuous Assessment Check List Australia's best-selling assessment record book since 1988, designed to assist teachers in assessing children's progress and development.
• Enhancement Maths Year 1-6 challenging developmental maths series for middle to more-able students with 60 curriculum developmentally oriented and extended tasks per book.

Quantifiable outcome

• My Useful Word Books have been Australia's best-selling early learning word books since 1988
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers1 record

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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AI maturity

App detail

Feature4 records

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• Ready-Ed Publications: Australian publisher of photocopiable teacher resources and workbooks for primary schools; directly competes in the same printed-curriculum-resources category with comparable price points and school sales motion.
• Blake Education: Australian educational publisher producing teacher resources and student workbooks for primary schools; directly comparable product mix (workbooks, boxed kits, curriculum-aligned literacy/numeracy) targeting the same K-6 segment in Australia.
• R.I.C. Publications: Australian K-6 publisher of reproducible teacher resources, blackline masters, and student activity books; highly comparable go-to-market (school-targeted, teacher-direct) and product format (printed classroom kits) to Teachers 4 Teachers.
• Hawker Brownlow Education: Australian publisher of teacher professional resources, wellbeing and SEL materials, and classroom books; directly comparable target customer (Australian schools and teachers) and a partial overlap in the wellbeing and high-yield teaching strategies space.
• Matilda Education: Australian publisher of primary school classroom resources including handwriting and literacy workbooks; comparable niche focus and curriculum-aligned product format, directly competing in handwriting and early literacy segments.

Broad incumbents

• Oxford University Press (Australia): Major educational publisher with a large Australian primary textbook and workbook catalogue; broader portfolio across many subjects and year levels, but overlaps directly with T4T's literacy, numeracy, and humanities offerings in Australian schools.
• Pearson Australia: Global education incumbent with Australian curriculum products spanning primary and secondary literacy and maths; competes with T4T for school budgets but offers a much wider portfolio including digital platforms.
• Cambridge University Press (Australia): International publisher with Australian-localised primary and secondary resources in English, maths, and humanities; comparable in curriculum alignment and classroom resource format, but with broader global reach and digital offerings.
• Scholastic Australia: Major children's book and educational resources publisher with strong Australian school channel presence; overlaps with T4T in literacy and reading products but operates at significantly larger scale.
• Macmillan Education Australia: Global publisher with Australian primary and secondary English and humanities products; broader portfolio and international backing, but overlaps with T4T in curriculum-aligned literacy resources sold to Australian schools.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

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Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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