ReelTeachers.com: A Social Network To Connect Teachers and Students
The Reel Teachers Story
Reel Teachers was founded by Damir Ara a Fine Arts teacher at Lane Tech College Prep High School in Chicago and Andalib Khelghati a principal at Dewey Elementary School in Evanston IL.
In 2010, Damir and Andalib sat down together and realized that there were no comprehensive networks online that focused on creating a large pool of teachers who could easily be contacted for potential job openings.
They started this network to offer an alternative to the way our school districts place substitute teachers and the fact that they do not promote finding the most qualified teachers to fill day-to-day substitute positions.
Once they created Reel Teachers they realized that the problem was not only finding good substitute teachers but also that our schools are still using old or ineffective methods to find available teachers for full-time positions.
With this realization they shifted their focus to create the ultimate educational website that administrators, teachers and parents could use to be able to network professionally.
We are going to change the way that educators search for jobs and get hired. -Says Damir
Today, with Reel Teachers now a reality, it offers the single best resource for employers looking for educators, and educators looking for work.
They offer a full suite of services including:
- Easy to build personal profiles
- A scheduling calendar
- Job referral capability
- Teaching Blog and additional features allowing users to connect and share their experience and resources with others.
Students deserve the best teachers. Teachers deserve the best opportunities. Their goal is to bring them together.