mcSquares Blog

Located just outside of Detroit, Novi Community School District serves almost 6600 students. In October, NCSD was named the top district in Michigan for the 2nd straight year by a national research and ranking firm. In response to the pandemic, RJ Webber, Assistant Superintendent of NCSD, initiated a program to purchase personal whiteboards from mcSquares or each of their students. Here's how that initiative is working out.

Watching someone create visual representations of spoken ideas in real time is mesmerizing. Ink Factory's mission is "to create visual experiences that inspire and engage." When someone on our team slacked a link to Ink Factory’s blog about visual notetaking, we spent the rest of the day crushing on them and signing up for workshops.

Colorado's Office of Economic Development and International Trade recognizes that mcSquares makes substantial contributions to the local economy by manufacturing its products in the Denver metro area, sourcing local vendors, and continuing to hire employees from within Colorado's highly-skilled labor pool.

When it comes to gratitude in 2020, mcSquares has a long list. Despite constantly shifting business challenges and personal difficulties, we’ve had a very successful year that would not be possible without the ongoing support of you: our customers, investors, employees and families.

We get it. You already know how to use a whiteboard. And you’re probably pretty good at it, too. You’ve been using large, wall-mounted whiteboards in your classrooms for as long as most of us can remember. But to improve student learning with whiteboards, we need to drill a little deeper into some of their more fundamental functions. 

It’s that time of year! Now that Halloween is behind us, the holiday season is entering full-throttle mode. The annual planning scramble for Thanksgiving, Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa is at hand. No matter how you celebrate and who you exchange gifts with, the holidays present additional challenges this year.