Essential Skills Software Inc

At Essential Skills we don’t just publish educational software, we develop 21st century tools to engage, inspire and educate students of all ages. We have been doing this for over 15 years, and it’s something that we take great pride in. Essential Skills didn’t start as a business plan, but rather as an idea for an easier, more engaging, and more efficient way to teach basic skills.

Our first program, Super Phonics, was created by our founder Ryan Brown for use with his own students. At the time he developed Super Phonics, Ryan was a classroom, special education and computer teacher with more than 25 years of experience. He recognized the incredible potential for computers to help teach rote skills to young children. Ryan loved teaching, and he saw this as a way to reach more kids than he’d ever thought possible. He had gotten into teaching because he loved kids and wanted to make a difference. Suddenly he realized that he had an opportunity to make a difference on a much larger scale.