About Us
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Teach Tee is a small online store for the people who run elementary classrooms: teachers from Pre-K to fifth grade, specials teachers, paras and office staff, and the room parents and teammates who buy for them. We sell printed tees, crewneck sweatshirts, tote bags and tumblers. This page explains how the store is laid out, why it is laid out that way, what we will and will not put on a shirt, and exactly what you can expect once you order. No big story, just the useful parts.
A store laid out like a school
Most teacher shirt shops are sorted by slogan or by holiday. Grade level, the thing a teacher is actually asked about a dozen times a day, ends up as a filter somewhere down the side. We turned that around. Teach Tee is organised the way a school is organised: by the door you walk through and by the day on the calendar.
There are two ways in, and they meet in the middle.
By grade door
Walk down the hall and every grade has a door: Pre-K, Kindergarten, First, Second, Third, Fourth and Fifth Grade. Behind the grade doors you find the designs that carry a grade line, so the whole team can wear the same thing with the right grade on it. One more door is for the people grade menus usually forget. Specials & Staff covers art, music, PE and library, plus paras and the front office.
By the day of the school year
A school year has many days, but three of them come with an unwritten dress code. On those three, a team tends to show up matching:
- The first day. Back to school and Meet the Teacher night, when families learn your name and your room.
- The 100th day. Tally marks, gold stars and “100 days smarter”, often somewhere near the middle of winter in the US.
- The last day. Field day, the final bell, and the end-of-year gift.
We name these by the day and not by the month on purpose. In Australia and New Zealand the school year runs from late January to December, so the first day and the 100th day fall in quite different months than they do in the United States or Canada. The day is the same everywhere. The month is not.
Each day comes with an order-by note
The question we hear most is some version of “will it get here before the day?” We cannot promise a delivery date, and we will not pretend to. What we can do is tell you plainly how long things take and let you count.
| Step | Time | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Making your order | 1-3 business days | Every item is made after it is ordered |
| Transit | 7-14 business days | The same estimate for the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand |
| In total | About 8 to 17 business days | An estimate, not a guarantee |
From that comes one rule we repeat all over the store: count back 17 business days from your day. Three to make plus fourteen to travel, the longest estimate. If the 100th day is a Tuesday in early February, the kinder team wants its order in during the second week of January. The homepage has an order-by table that does the counting for the three days. Our Shipping & Delivery page has the details.
What we sell
The range is deliberately short. A teacher should be able to see all of it in a few minutes between dismissal and a staff meeting.
- Teacher tees. Printed tees in adult sizes S, M, L, XL, 2XL, 3XL, 4XL and 5XL. Every tee comes in every one of those eight sizes, so one design can fit a whole team.
- Crewneck sweatshirts. The same eight sizes. Some teams mix: four tees and two sweatshirts in the same order, for the colleagues whose rooms run cold.
- The teacher bag. Tote bags, tumblers and one tote and tumbler gift set.
Everything is printed. Nothing is embroidered, engraved or stitched on, and we do not describe it as if it were. Each item is made after you order it, and orders ship from the USA. You can see the whole range on the shop page.
Why the teacher bag instead of one more mug
Ask teachers what they do with gifts and you hear the same thing: the note gets kept, and the things that get used get remembered. A tote ends up as the teacher bag, carrying papers home every Friday for years. A tumbler sits on the desk. So when a room parent or a class wants an end-of-year gift, we point them to the teacher bag: a tote, a tumbler and a tee that can carry the same name and grade. We also suggest adding a handwritten note from the class. We do not sell that part, and it is the part she will keep longest.
How personalising works
Most of our designs are finished: you choose a size and a colour and that is all. Three finished designs come with a grade line you pick from a list, from Pre-K to Fifth Grade, and one comes with a specials line for Art, Music, PE or Library.
Three products are personalised. On those, the product page has two fields:
- Name. The name your students use, such as “Mrs. Brown” or “Mr. Okafor”.
- Grade or role. Free text, so it accepts “First Grade”, “Year 3”, “Prep”, “Art” or “Front Office” equally.
A live preview shows your text on the product as you type. This matters, because there is no proof step after checkout. We print exactly what you type, including capitals and punctuation. If the room parent types “Mrs Brown” without the full stop, the tote says “Mrs Brown”. Read the preview once more before you add to cart, and if you spot a mistake afterwards you have 24 hours from ordering to fix it.
What we will not put on a shirt
You wear these in front of students, families and your principal. So there are things you will not find here, and it is easier to say them outright.
- No school, district or mascot artwork. We do not print real school names, crests or mascots, and there is no logo upload. We are not an official spirit-wear supplier for any school.
- No borrowed brands or characters. No pen, crayon or cup brands, no book or screen characters, no team names, no lettering made to look like a show.
- Nothing political. No political, patriotic or religious slogans. A classroom has every kind of family in it.
- No tired-teacher jokes. No lines about coffee, wine or counting the minutes. We think the job deserves better copy than that.
Every design is original to Teach Tee. We draw from the things already on the classroom wall: the number line above the whiteboard, the pocket chart with its date cards, the helper chart, handwriting lines, tally marks in fives, gold stars. Our Intellectual Property Policy explains this line in full.
About wearing them at school
We keep designs school-appropriate so they suit a spirit day, a jeans day or a dress-down Friday. That is as far as we go. Dress codes differ by school and by district, and we do not claim that any item is approved under anyone’s dress code. If your school has rules about graphic tees, a quick check with your office before a team order saves trouble.
Who we make this for
Three kinds of people shop here, and the store tries to be clear for each of them.
The teacher buying for herself
You know your size, your grade and your day. Pick the door or the day, pick the design, done. If you are between sizes, the Size Guide explains how to choose.
The team lead buying for six
You are the one with the sticky note of sizes. Every tee and sweatshirt comes in the same eight sizes, so nobody on the team is left out, and you can mix garment types in one order. Shipping is free however many pieces you add. If a teammate changes her mind about a size the same evening, you have 24 hours to email us.
The gift-giver
You may be a room parent, a student teacher saying thank you, or a teammate marking a retirement. You probably do not know her size, which is one more reason the teacher bag works: a tote and a tumbler fit everyone. Ask a colleague how the teacher writes her own name. “Ms.” and “Mrs.” are not interchangeable, and she will notice.
What you can count on after you order
These are the store’s actual policies, with nothing rounded up.
| Topic | What applies | Full page |
|---|---|---|
| Shipping | Free to the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. No minimum, no code. Ships from the USA. | Shipping & Delivery |
| Changing or cancelling | Within 24 hours of ordering, including fixing a name, grade, size, colour or address. | Cancel or Change an Order |
| Returns | 60 days from delivery, every product, any reason, personalised items included. Free return label. No restocking fee. | Returns & Exchanges Policy |
| Refunds | Within 7 days of the return reaching us, to the original payment method. Store credit that never expires if you prefer it. | Refund Policy |
| Support | By email. A reply within 24 hours on business days. | Contact Us |
The 60-day return window covers personalised items too. If the tote arrives and the grade is wrong, or it is right and you simply changed your mind, the same window and the same free label apply.
Prices are in US dollars. Sales tax is not collected at checkout. For Canada, Australia and New Zealand, any import duties depend on the destination country.
If something goes wrong
Now and then it will. A tumbler arrives dented, a tee carries the wrong grade line, a parcel sits still for a week. When that happens, email us with your order number and, for damage or a wrong print, a photo. We reply within 24 hours on business days and agree the next step with you. We do not publish a script for every case, because a team waiting on shirts for Friday needs a different answer than a gift that has months to spare. The Submit Ticket page lists what to include for each kind of problem.
What we do not claim
A store earns trust partly by what it leaves out. You will not find review counts we cannot back up, “only three left” warnings, countdown timers or badges on this site. Reviews, when they appear, come from verified buyers only. We do not tell an origin story or show staff photos, because the store is not about us. We do not promise a delivery date, because parcels cross real roads and real weather. Where we do not know something yet, we say so and ask you to email us.
Who is behind the store
The business details are short and they are all here:
Teach Tee
2109 Crown View Way
Oceanside, CA 92056
US
Email: support@teachtee.shop
Support is by email only. There is no phone line and we do not run social media accounts, so if you see one using our name, it is not us. The postal address is for written correspondence. Returns begin with an email so that we can send you the free label.
Where to go next
- Start with a day: first day, 100th day or last day.
- Start with a door: grade level or Specials & Staff.
- Buying a gift: open the teacher bag.
- Have a question first: the FAQs and the Help Center cover most of them.
- Need a person: email support@teachtee.shop or see Contact Us.