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Getting Parents Involved in Education

With a new school year approaching, teachers, students and even parents are getting prepared. Back to school preparation involves various tasks, including getting name tags for your school. From photo IDs for teachers to reusable badges for parent volunteers, these products will help any school run more smoothly. Here are some great resources that we offer that will help improve any educational experience.

When students and staff wear name tags, it becomes easier for them to start up conversations and build connections. Name tags act as quick and friendly introductions and they break down any barriers that occur when new people meet. This creates a warmer and more inclusive atmosphere. By seeing each other’s names, everyone at school can address each other personally. This simple act will create better social interactions and help to promote a sense of belonging among scholars.

While name tags may seem like a small detail, their impact is far reaching. From breaking the ice and opening lines of communication to providing a safe environment and promoting school spirit, name tags create inclusive and supportive environments. By using name tags in schools, everyone can embrace the power of personal connection and help lay the foundation for a more connected education.

How can name tags help parents in a classroom setting?

Name tags are perfect for anyone who frequently volunteers in your school. Use Conference Name Tags and customize them to show who belongs. Security is one of the most important parts of any school setting. These name tags will show who is volunteering so that teachers, students and staff know who they can rely on. You can even add your school’s name, colors and mascot to these badges, so you can make sure that they stay in your building.

Promote a sense of familiarity and encourage open communication channels with new name tags. They eliminate the awkwardness of not knowing someone’s name and facilitate communication, which makes it easier for people to ask for help and engage in meaningful discussions. Whether it’s a student seeking help from a teacher or peers working together on a project, teamwork begins by being able to address each other by name.

Another use for these unique tags is for student identification. Most teachers have so many students that it is hard to remember everyone’s names. Name tags are great helpers that make remembering names easier. Students will love the personalization and knowing there is a specific space just for them. Using these tags can also help students while they get to know each other.

Why should parents customize ribbons for their students?

Any student will consider themselves lucky to get a ribbon customized with them in mind. Customize these ribbons with bright themes and vivid colors; they are great for every student achievement. So, show your approval of a student’s work with these fun, full color ribbons. Or help students feel more confident about themselves as they work through the new school year.

A great place to use these ribbons is at sporting events. Does your school have a field day coming up or a rally for back to school night, and needs awards for all the participants? Honor every student participating with a special ribbon printed with their achievement or other titles.

Another quick use for these wonderful, colorful ribbons is to give them as a bookmark. Have them printed with a saying and an image to make them really special. Give them at a back to school night or award them in class.

The Power of Identification in Schools

From helping to make connections to creating inclusion, name tags and custom products will make everyone feel like they belong and help them to work together.

Badge Ribbons, Photo ID Badges, Lanyards and Volunteer name tags can all be used by students, staff, teachers and parents in any school setting.

Custom Badge Ribbons

Quickly identify students on the first day of school with customized ribbons. Design your ribbons with room numbers and teachers’ names to help students feel like they belong. They are super easy to use, especially with double sided tape that is ready to stick to anything.

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Photo IDs with Matching Lanyards

Giving teachers and other staff photo identification enhances your school’s safety. Use them with matching lanyards to provide easy visual identification for those who belong within the school. This also makes it easier to quickly identify any outsiders that may come into the school, including volunteers and parents.

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Engraved Name Tags

Provide identification for parent volunteers from the moment they walk into your school to the moment they walk out. These easy to use name tags will help students and staff know who they can turn to and that there are parents who are working to be involved in their student’s education. You can also promote school spirit by incorporating school colors on your name tags.

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Teaching Tools and Personalizing Your Classroom

Learning is more effective and stimulating when you are using teaching tools that are already in front of you. It is up to teachers and other school staff to ensure every student has the tools they need to learn. When students know what tools they have available and how each works, they are more apt to pay attention and, in the long run, learn what they need to succeed.

Personalizing Your Teaching Tools with customized products like engravable signs, name plates and badge holders for identification.

Why are customizable products great for teaching tools?

By customizing our products to meet your school and classroom needs, you can help improve your instruction time. For example, free up time in your schedule by hanging custom signs with simple instructions so they don’t need to be constantly repeated. Use name tags and name plates to show teachers’ names. And even have badges available for parent volunteers. Here are several of our most popular items that teachers use as teaching tools for their classrooms and schools.

Custom Engravable Signs

Custom engraved plastic sign with a school's bell schedule and someone from administration as teaching tools to help students.

Use our engravable custom signs in your classroom today. For example, personalize a custom sign to show your classroom schedule. Or have a sign engraved with other classroom instructions. While these signs are a great teaching tool for the classroom, they work just as well for the rest of the school.

Use them for bell schedules, No Running in the Halls signs and even more. Each engraved sign is available in multiple colors on durable plastic material. This means that you can customize the color to match your school decor or even show some school spirit. Add logos, graphics and text to make your message seen.

Personalized Name Plates

Two lines engraved into a name plate to sit on a teacher's desk as teaching tools to help students.

From teachers’ desks and doors to the counselor’s office, name plates can be used everywhere in your school. Not only are name plates great for teachers’ names, but they are also great for identifying different classrooms and other areas in the building.

One of the great parts about custom name plates is adding your logo or school mascot next to names. Or you can use icons to designate closets and other rooms throughout the building. They come in the same durable plastic material as custom signs so that you can match everything in your building.

Badge Holders and Lanyards

A badge holder that has a printed insert with a teacher's photo to be used with a color lanyard as school identification.

Step up your security with personalized badge holders and custom lanyards. With a handy photo and your school’s name printed onto replaceable inserts, badge holders just became your best friend. Using these inserts, you can instantly identify teachers, staff and even visitors quickly by printing any information you need and sliding it into a holder.

Then match the lanyard to your badge. By using colored (and maybe custom imprinted with your school logo), you help your staff and visitors keep their identification handy. Lanyards are also perfect for fundraising events, sporting meets and any other time your school gets together.

Personalizing Your School and Using Teaching Tools

From the classroom to the counseling center, we have custom products to make your school run smoothly. Use these great teaching tools to help your teaching and instruction. Do you have other ideas for our custom products? We’d love to hear them!

Here’s a fun idea: when giving out welcome gifts to your students, make sure to wrap them with fun ribbon rolls. Your students are guaranteed a great first impression when handed trinkets with personalized ribbons wrapped around them. And, maybe they will even behave a bit better as a way of saying thank you for your thoughtfulness.

Graduation Awards and Recognitions

Typically graduation ceremonies are done en masse and followed by a personalized celebration or party. After all, it’s a significant achievement that is worthy of celebration. Moreover, each graduate deserves a chance to pause and think about all that led to this triumph. So, why not make this a possibility all the time by giving graduation awards to every graduate you know.

Custom graduation awards as personalized plaques and desk wedge name plates.

Custom award plaques and professional name plates do just that. These personalized items make an excellent award for any achievement. But, with a class of excellence above any other, these beautiful plaques and desk blocks are sure to show how much you care. Whether you give one of these as a gift or buy one for yourself, the professional quality reflects the excellence you demand from yourself and your education.

Celebrate your graduate with a professional desk wedge!

Executive name plates are perfect for showing just how much you appreciate someone. They also make an excellent award for any achievement. With a class of excellence above any other, these beautiful nameplates are sure to show how much you care. Whether you give one as a gift or buy one for yourself, the professional quality reflects the excellence you demand from yourself and your company.

8.5" Red Alder Desk Wedge personalized for a graduation award

8.5" Rosewood Desk Wedge name plate engraved for a recent graduate.

Black Acrylic Desk Block with engraved text to be used as a graduation award.

Graduation Awards – Desk Wedges

Congratulate the entire graduating class with these affordable desk wedges personalized for each graduate. Or, take it all a step further with a gorgeous high gloss desk wedge customized with a graduate’s name, accolades and year. With four different wood styles to choose from, everyone who gets these name plates as graduation awards will know how much you think of them.

Graduation Awards – Acrylic Desk Blocks

Celebrate your favorite graduate in style with a one-of-a-kind gift of an engraved acrylic desk wedge. From names and accolades to a graduate’s favorite quote, these one-of-a-kind desk blocks are sure to be the best award a graduate receives.

Graduation award plaques for the win!

One of the best things about customizing a unique gift plaque is that you can give it to nearly anyone in your life. From a favorite teacher to your grandpa, everyone will enjoy this thoughtful gift. Just remember that your message should always fit the recipient.

Graduation Awards – Rosewood Plaques with Floating Acrylic Plate

Inspire your graduate with an award that fits their style. And, what a fun and unique way to present someone’s accolades to them! Personalize a plaque with a graduate’s degree for them to hang when they land that dream job. Each metal plate on an award plaque can be engraved with names, insignia and other graduation information that is custom for a single graduate. You will inspire confidence and excitement as you give your graduate this one-of-a-kind award.

Student Awards – Genuine Walnut Plaque with Metal Scroll Frame

Tell your students exactly what you think of their accomplishments with an embellished plaque. The metal scroll feature on this plaque style will help them feel that they are already a professional. And the engraved details of their accomplishments are guaranteed to provide an award suitable to any graduate. In addition, with various available sizes, making plaques for every student or only a few is highly affordable.

Teacher Thank Yous – Alder Plus Plaques

Don’t forget the educator who made your graduation possible. Custom design a plaque that will make any teacher or professor feel like your accomplishments are theirs. Create a message that is unique to one teacher, or buy them for all of your teachers. From thanking them for their time and talents to commending them on a job well done, your educators are sure to appreciate your graduation even more with these classy awards.

More Ways to Personalize Your Graduation

Another great idea is to use badge ribbons as a non-traditional invitation or announcement. Choose custom ribbons with imprinted text in your color choice and add a saying or quote. Add a graduation graphic, the graduate’s name and the ceremony’s date. These are sure to stand out and make your graduate feel extra special.

Classroom Prep: Custom Signs for Teachers

Using something as simple as custom signs will help any teacher with their classroom prep. From decorating to giving instructions, use these tools to help your classroom run smoothly. These signs can also help keep your students on track and provide them with help where/when they need it.

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Using Custom Signs for Your Classroom

Get students excited about their education with classroom signs. Use them to encourage participation with motivational quotes and classroom rules. By hanging these custom signs behind your desk, you’ll have no trouble keeping students engaged throughout the school year.

Whether teaching in person or online, classroom signs will look great behind your desk, or anywhere they are easily visible. Customize each sign with text and graphics that remind your students why their education is essential. As they see these signs every day, they will stay motivated to pay attention and participate in class.

Keeping Students Engaged with Classroom Signs

Here are some unique ways to engage your students by using custom text and graphic signs. Remember, you can create nearly any design you want so that you can share what you need with your classroom.

Custom engraved sign for a teacher to present school rules for student engagement.

Class Rules: Help your students remember classroom rules with beautifully engraved signs. Add steps to complete projects or basic rules to remember to each sign. No matter what you choose to add to your signs, remember these are fully customizable, and you can add nearly every instruction you will need for your classroom.

Inspirational Quotes: Motivate your students to do their best every day by sharing quotes from famous scholars or inspiring leaders. From Dr. Seuss to William Ward, add your favorite learning quote or message to any sign. Choose from our fonts or provide a fancy one, and don’t forget the graphics to go with your quote!

Learning Objectives: Help students stay focused on their education by giving them specific goals to work toward during class. Then, add these goals to a new sign that you can display at the front of the classroom to help remind your students that they are striving for bigger and better.

PRO TIP: The above list is only a few things that our custom signs can be used for, so let your imagination flow and design anything you need for your classroom!

Designing Custom Signs

Custom engraved, plastic signs used in a classroom for helping students stay focused.

SIZE: While we offer standard sizes, don’t be afraid to venture into the custom area. We can do any size sign between 20 and 144 sq inches!

TEXT: Choose one of our stock fonts or provide your own and add nearly any text you need to get your message across.

GRAPHICS: While we are limited to details due to our engraving machines, don’t feel like you can’t ask for something spectacular. After all, look what we did a while back!

FRAMES: Depending on the size you order, hanging your sign is easy with a black or gray frame.

DESIGN: If you don’t know how you want your sign to look, we have a design team waiting to help you. Submit any idea, and we will work with you to get it from concept to finished product.

Need more classroom ideas? Here’s some help to get you started!

Going Back to School with Ribbons
While we don’t have pens and notebooks, we do have something you need! Check out all of these different ribbons. And, find out why they are essential to have in your classroom and available for your students.