About Us
Welcome to GetWorksheets.com, a website built by teachers who’d rather spend their time helping kids than figuring out the newest “revolutionary learning dashboard.” I’m Cris, a K-5 Special Education teacher from New York State, and I’ve been teaching since 1996. That’s long enough to have watched more educational trends launch and fizzle than I can count; usually with a lot of hype and very little usefulness for real students.
When I first started teaching, I was fortunate to work alongside seasoned educators who were nearing retirement. These teachers didn’t just offer advice, they opened up their filing cabinets and handed me entire treasure troves of resources they’d created over decades. I can still remember walking out of school with armfuls of binders, folders, and worksheets, all generously handed over “because you’ll need these someday.” And they were right. Those resources saved me countless hours during a time when I was raising two young kids of my own and trying to keep my head above water. Some of those generous teachers have since passed, but their creativity and caring live on through the worksheets and lessons that continue to help children today.
Over the years, I added thousands of my own creations. I learned very quickly that children learn best when their work feels purposeful; when it’s simple, clear, and actually interesting. Meanwhile, many school-approved programs looked fantastic in a meeting but tended to fall apart the moment a real child looked at them. So I stuck with what worked: materials designed for kids, not for administrators or data dashboards.
My husband, a high school teacher, started adding some of his worksheets to the collection as well, and soon his colleagues joined in. That was the moment this collection stopped being “my stuff” and started becoming something bigger.
A Community Effort
GetWorksheets.com isn’t just my work. It’s the combined effort of 23 veteran teachers and 6 dedicated homeschoolers who have spent years creating, refining, testing, and sharing the materials you’ll find here. You will very often find them commenting and posting on our GetWorksheets Facebook Group. These are educators who have lived through curriculum overhauls, standardized testing waves, teaching trends, and more “new initiatives” than anyone should have to endure.
They come from different grade levels, different backgrounds, and different specialties, but they share one thing: they know what works in real learning environments. Their wisdom, humor, creativity, and patience are baked into every worksheet on this site. What you’re using isn’t just a collection; it’s a legacy of educators who care deeply about helping children learn in ways that make sense, feel meaningful, and bring out the best in each student.
Why This Site Exists
I created GetWorksheets.com to share these materials with the people who need them most: teachers, homeschoolers, tutors, and parents who deserve resources that lighten their workload instead of adding to it. Whether you’re preparing lessons late at night, balancing learning at home, supporting a child who needs extra practice, or simply trying to make learning more engaging, this collection exists to make your life easier, just as those generous teachers once made mine easier.
A Quick History Of This Website
Our website has lived a longer, stranger life than most houseplants. It first launched way back in 2002 as a humble membership worksheet site and somehow grew into a bustling corner of the internet with tens of thousands of happy members which was proof that people really do love a good worksheet. In 2016, the company behind it was sold, and the new owners decided to take the materials in a different direction (we like to think of it as the worksheets going off on a gap year). During the pandemic, in a small plot twist that felt part luck and part destiny, we managed to reclaim the domain and bring it back home. Then came the long, slightly dusty process of figuring out what we actually had. This included sorting, organizing, and rediscovering worksheets we clearly made with a lot of enthusiasm and maybe not enough labels. After much reflection, laughter, and digital archaeology, we finally relaunched the site in late 2025, older, wiser, and very happy to be back where we started.
How Our Worksheets Are Created and Reviewed
When we relaunched the site, we didn’t start by uploading old files and hoping for the best. We started with a giant team brainstorm. We asked one simple question: What topics are non-negotiable if we’re going to do this right? After a lot of lively discussion (and probably too many sticky notes), we realized those ideas naturally grouped into 16 core topic areas. That became our foundation.
We also added two sections you won’t usually see on worksheet sites: Special Education (where my heart has always been) and AI. Special Education often gets treated like an afterthought online, and that never sat well with me. And AI? Whether we like it or not, students are growing up with it. Pretending it doesn’t exist doesn’t prepare them for anything. We added a section for AI Literacy-because students need to know how to navigate this new world responsibly.
My husband, an educational platform developer with over 20 years of experience, notes that most sites are quietly recycling 15-year-old content. We didn’t want to echo the internet. We wanted to build something current, thoughtful, and actually useful – which is why you’ll find topics here that simply don’t exist elsewhere.
The Process (Simple, but Serious)
1. Category Identification
Behind the scenes, we maintain a living bank of more than 1,000 topic ideas aligned to Common Core, SEL, TEKS, B.E.S.T., and SOL standards. Every month, we review site analytics and internal search data. If people are searching for something and we don’t have it yet, that’s not ignored – it goes on our build list. In other words, if you’re looking for it, we’re paying attention.
2. Writing
Each month, our writers choose two assigned topics and create at least 10 completely original worksheets per topic, directly aligned to the intended standards. We don’t believe in publishing the same worksheet five slightly different ways just to bulk up a category. If there’s overlap, it’s intentional and meaningful – and you’ll likely see more than 10 sheets there because the topic genuinely requires depth. If you’re looking for repetitive drill-and-kill clones, there are plenty of sites that specialize in that. We don’t.
3. Editing & Review
Once a writer finishes a batch, they upload it to our shared platform. But they’re not done yet. Each writer must review four other topic sets and provide at least a paragraph of thoughtful feedback to those authors. That peer review step matters. It sharpens clarity, catches weak directions, and strengthens alignment. After revisions, the worksheets move to final review.
At that point, I run an AI check for answer keys and obvious grammar issues. It’s helpful – but let’s be honest, it’s far from perfect. AI misses things. It flags things that aren’t wrong. It occasionally invents problems that don’t exist. So every single worksheet is manually reviewed afterward.
And here’s my favorite part: I print them all out. Every Sunday morning. Big pot of coffee. Red pen in hand. I work through them the way a student would. If something needs serious reworking, it goes back to the writer. If it’s just a minor typo, I fix it myself.
People ask why we don’t publish 500 sheets a week. It’s because red pens don’t have a ‘bulk upload’ button. We’d rather give you ten worksheets that work than a thousand that don’t.
Nothing gets published until it’s been through multiple educators, multiple passes, and one slightly over-caffeinated Sunday review session.
That’s how we keep it honest.
How We Use AI
Let’s just say this plainly: AI is a tool. Not a teacher. Not a curriculum designer. And definitely not a replacement for experience.
We use AI in a very limited and practical way. First, it helps us double-check worksheets for obvious errors. This is for things like answer key mismatches or glaring grammar issues. It’s good at spotting patterns quickly. It’s not good at nuance. So after the AI pass, every worksheet is still reviewed by actual humans (and usually by me with coffee in hand).
We also use AI to help generate worksheet descriptions and meta tags on the website. That’s exactly where it shines. Writing clear, searchable summaries that align with standards? It’s efficient and surprisingly strong at that. The worksheets themselves, however, are entirely human-created. No AI drafting. No AI-generated student content. Just experienced educators doing what they’ve always done.
Now, I will admit something amusing: I’ve worked with some of these writers for over a decade. And starting around 2023, their worksheet titles suddenly became wildly more creative. I’m not asking too many questions. Let’s just say I have my suspicions. If AI is helping someone come up with a catchy title, I can live with that.
We did experiment with AI-generated images for reading passages once. That experiment lasted about five minutes. The images were… not classroom appropriate. Let’s just say they leaned more PG-13 than elementary school. So we happily returned to good, reliable, royalty-free clipart.
In short: AI helps us polish. It does not create. The teaching and the thinking belongs to people not machines.
Copyright Statement
Everything on this site may be printed and used for any non-commercial purpose, but nothing may be posted, shared, uploaded, or distributed digitally. Please enjoy these materials in your classrooms, homes, tutoring sessions, and learning spaces, just keep them offline and they are not to be resold.
Thank you for being here, and thank you for the work you do with children. My hope is that these worksheets support you the way my mentors once supported me , by giving you time back, helping your students succeed, and making the work you do just a little lighter.
Get In Touch
If you need to reach me, you’re welcome to send an email to the address listed just below this paragraph. And fair warning: if you’re an internet marketing or ad-display company, save us both some time, I delete those emails faster than a kid grabbing the last cupcake, and I report them as spam with the enthusiasm of someone chasing a fly out of the kitchen. Everyone else, feel free to reach out!
Have An Absolute Lovely Day,
Cris – M.Ed, Founder & Lead Curator of GetWorksheets.com.
