by Dana | Jul 28, 2020 | Uncategorized
Like everyone else, “SHE” is adjusting to the reality of 2020. With Covid-19 causing uncertainty in schools (not to mention families, jobs, healthcare, and just about in every aspect of life in 2020), Schoolhouse Escapes is using our time away from what we...
by Dana | Apr 21, 2020 | Uncategorized
Along with every other business, we are holding staff meetings online, which is nice because it was likely the first time I had done my hair in four weeks. Like so many others, Schoolhouse Escapes is in limbo waiting for the schools to open again, but because they are...
by Dana | Mar 29, 2020 | Uncategorized
Well, besides reeling. Like everyone else (on the planet), we are trying to grasp the Covid-19 crisis from a personal standpoint–how to keep our aging relatives safe, how to keep ourselves from getting it, figuring out how long will we need to isolate before...
by Dana | Mar 12, 2020 | Uncategorized
We provide replacement (on campus) field trips amid coronavirus scare. Who knew that 2020 would bring with it a pandemic that would limit public gatherings, including scheduled field trips for hundreds of school-aged children across California? According to the...
by Dana | Jan 10, 2020 | Uncategorized
For most people, spring means a change of weather, the Easter bunny, vacations from school, and one step closer to summer and the end of the school year. For us, it’s our go time, and we are going to focus this blog post on our returning customers. A returning...
by Dana | Nov 30, 2019 | Uncategorized
We are excited to announce that we are (officially) publishing our books! Our love of books is likely like yours — any of us on staff would rather be reading a great novel than doing just about anything. When this company started, we were transitioning from an...
by Dana | Oct 31, 2019 | Uncategorized
Field testing incentive programs proving successful In September, we were happy to report that two schools who had helped us test our Good Behavior Incentive program during the 2018-2019 school year had BOTH come aboard again for the current school year! Yes! When we...
by Dana | Sep 25, 2019 | Uncategorized
Our family is growing. When we started this company, it wasn’t with growth in mind. In fact, as I have mentioned in other blog posts, while we trusted that Bakersfield would love it and that eventually we would expand into our sister city, Fresno, we THOUGHT we...
by Dana | Aug 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
Schoolhouse Escapes, the newly minted publishing imprint of its namesake escape room company, has announced its first published book: The Girls Who Saved Christmas, written by Dana Martin, illustrated by Isabel Espert. Now available on Amazon. I never intended to...
by Dana | Jul 8, 2019 | Uncategorized
As the school year rolls around, we are determined to meet the needs of every school that wants to bring educational escape games to their students. Last year, we developed a once-monthly program to reward good behavior; shortly thereafter, we added a program to...
by Dana | May 7, 2019 | Uncategorized
So, here we are: a little, home grown company that began as a tiny idea that grew into a seed and began to germinate after pouring ideas, good favor, love, God, and yes… a lot of money into it…. and we are expanding! During our initial stages of writing...
by Dana | Apr 26, 2019 | Uncategorized
SHE = School House Escapes, an acronym that was NOT intentional but suits our company better than expected, as you can see by the photo below! Our official “open” date (at least to our trademark attorney) is waaaaay back when we purchased our website...
by Dana | Mar 20, 2019 | Uncategorized
First, let me confess that this post is not about my finest hour. In fact, I’m publicizing a big ol’ customer service faux pas to illustrate a point. If my Yelp rating goes down, I’ll know why. I wrote about grit in the classroom during last month’s blog post, wherein...
by Dana | Feb 28, 2019 | Uncategorized
When I was in third grade, I can remember Mrs. Wagner making me repeat an entire cursive assignment because I looped the bottom of a lowercase “f” the wrong direction. I wasn’t the only one. She decided to stop the lesson and move to another assignment, promising we...
by Dana | Dec 26, 2018 | Uncategorized
Starting a business isn’t easy, and if you ask anyone who has ventured into the entrepreneurial world, they will tell you that their boss is a jerk most of the time: scatter-brained, unproductive, and maybe even a bit grouchy sometimes. Not that they mean to...
