Welcome to Bloom's Network


Are you an educator looking for a community of like-minded individuals with whom you can collaborate, question and communicate? If so, Bloom's Network is the place for you. We have spent the past few years developing a social networking website, tailored to the needs of modern day teaching, which we hope can be an integral part of every day teaching in the future.


Market research conducted by our team implied that finding reliable, useful resources is one of the biggest stresses facing teachers in today's classroom. Bloom's Network has been created in an attempt to alleviate this stress with a one-stop solution. We are giving teachers access to an online portal that, among other things, will enable them to: upload/download resources from our free resource bank, ask questions to other teachers in their field, and post statuses to their school's personalised news feed.

Over the coming weeks and months we will be writing blog posts, going into detail on each section of the website, to ensure our users can make the most of the features available to them. We will be bringing in new features on a regular basis, which we will discuss in detail on our blog before going live, so keep your eyes peeled! But, for now, please sign up at https://bloomsnetwork.com/signup. After you've done this, go to the resources section of our website, search for resources with the subject Bloom's Network Beta testing and you will find some documents to help you get started.

If you have already signed up, you may have noticed that the home page has a message welcoming you to Bloom's Network Beta testing. This is so you understand that, while we have big plans for the website, we cannot be one-hundred percent sure of the reliability of our website's features, until we have a strong base of teachers using them frequently and giving us feedback on which areas require improvement. Once we are certain of the website's reliability, we will move out of Beta testing and into a full release - all this means is that we are happy that no user will encounter any issues using the website, under any circumstance!

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