Retiring, changing grades, moving rooms, or finally clearing out the classroom closet?
Oak & Page helps Wichita-area teachers rehome usable curriculum, teacher editions, classroom books, leveled readers, kits, and educational materials that still have teaching life left in them.
We know how much time, money, and care can go into building a classroom. When those materials are no longer needed, we make it easier to keep them out of the trash and get them into the hands of homeschool families, tutors, teachers, and other educators who can use them.
A Simple Option for Classroom Cleanouts
Every year, good classroom materials get tossed because no one has the time, space, or energy to sort through them.
That is where we can help.
We are Wes and Angelica, a small family-run curriculum resale shop here in Wichita. Oak & Page exists to rescue useful educational materials, sort them carefully, and pass them on to families and educators looking for affordable curriculum.
You do not need a perfect inventory. A few photos and a quick description are enough to start.
A Quick Note on School-Owned Materials
If the materials belong to you personally, you are welcome to contact us directly.
If the materials belong to your school, district, department, or classroom budget, please make sure they are cleared for removal before sending them our way. Schools and districts often have their own surplus, disposal, donation, or approval processes.
We are happy to work with teachers, administrators, curriculum directors, office staff, or district personnel when approval or documentation is needed.
For larger school or district lots, please visit our Schools & Institutions page.
How It Works
1. Send a Few Photos
Start with a few photos of the shelves, boxes, spines, title pages, or ISBNs. A short description is helpful too.
Good details include:
- Grade level
- Subject
- Publisher or curriculum name
- Approximate quantity
- Your general location
- Whether the materials are personal or school-owned
2. We Take a Look
We will review the materials and let you know what we can use.
Some items have resale value. Some are better suited for donation, bundling, or recycling. Some may simply be too outdated, damaged, or incomplete for us to take.
3. We Arrange Pickup
For qualifying local lots, we can arrange free Wichita-area pickup.
You do not need to create a detailed spreadsheet or sort everything perfectly. If the materials are boxed or grouped together, that helps, but we know classroom cleanouts are rarely neat and tidy.
4. Your Materials Keep Teaching
Usable materials are sorted, graded, photographed, bundled when helpful, and rehomed with families, tutors, teachers, co-ops, and other educators.
We cannot save every single book, but we make a real effort to give useful materials a second life.
What We Are Glad to Review
We are especially interested in:
- Teacher editions
- Answer keys
- Assessment guides
- Curriculum sets
- Student textbooks
- Unused or lightly used workbooks
- Classroom libraries
- Leveled readers
- Read-aloud books
- Manipulatives
- Boxed teaching kits
- Educational reference books
- Graphing calculators
- Classroom technology
- Recent K–12, homeschool, or college-level curriculum
If you are not sure whether something is useful, send a photo. It never hurts to ask.
What We Usually Cannot Use
To save everyone time, we usually cannot take:
- Moldy books
- Heavily water-damaged materials
- Books with strong odors
- Mostly completed consumable workbooks
- Loose photocopied worksheets
- Very outdated editions with little remaining demand
- Broken electronics
- Confidential student records
- Personnel documents
- General office paperwork
Please remove student records, personal paperwork, testing documents, and confidential materials before pickup. Oak & Page is not a records destruction service and cannot accept confidential student or personnel records.
Do We Pay for Materials?
Sometimes, yes.
If your personally owned collection includes materials with clear resale value (such as current curriculum, teacher kits, calculators, complete sets, or in-demand homeschool materials) we may be able to make a fair offer.
Other times, teachers simply want useful materials cleared out and passed along to someone who can use them. That is welcome too.
Either way, there is no pressure. Send photos, and we will let you know what makes sense.
For school-owned materials, payment or transfer may need to go through your school or district’s approved process.
Where the Materials Go
After pickup, we sort through the materials and determine what can be resold, donated, bundled, recycled, or responsibly discarded.
Items with resale value help keep Oak & Page running. Other useful materials may be routed toward families, teachers, homeschool groups, or donation opportunities when possible.
Our goal is simple: keep good educational materials in use for as long as we can.
This Page Is for You If…
- You are retiring and do not want years of classroom materials to disappear overnight.
- You are changing grades or schools and cannot take everything with you.
- You inherited a classroom full of old curriculum.
- Your department changed adoptions, and the previous materials are taking up space.
- You are clearing shelves before summer.
- You have boxes of teacher editions, classroom books, or leveled readers and no time to deal with them.
- You want the materials to go somewhere useful.
If that sounds familiar, we can help.
Wichita-Area Pickup
Oak & Page serves Wichita and the surrounding area, including Derby, Andover, Newton, Maize, Goddard, Haysville, Valley Center, Bel Aire, and nearby communities.
For larger or especially useful lots, we may be able to travel farther.
Tell Us What You Have
To get started, email [email protected] with a few photos or a short description of the materials, your general location, and whether the items are personally owned or school-owned.
We will take a look and respond with next steps.