Two friends, Diana and Magda, who share a similar vision of education, decide to open a language school. The first branch of Centrum Językowe Clan (Clan Language Centre) is opened in Tarnowskie Góry. From the very beginning, the school sets a high standard of teaching, focusing on communication and relationships with students and their parents.

Diana Kubica and Magdalena Duchnik, the owners of the Clan network of schools, together with methodology expert Ola Komada, decide to combine all their best ideas, practices and concepts to create an ambitious course for the preschoolers learning in their schools. And so, the first book of the Teddy Eddie method is born.

In its first few years, Teddy Eddie makes a huge difference to the quality of the teaching of our youngest learners, with results that surprise even the authors themselves! The network of Clan schools grows at an incredible rate and language schools in other Polish towns and cities decide to implement the method under licence.

More and more language schools choose to work with us and introduce our method for preschool children. We feel that the time has come for the Teddy Eddie brand to formally separate from its parent company, Clan, and focus entirely on working with language schools. The new company is led by one of the authors of the method, Ola Komada, who has proudly held the position of CEO ever since.

There are no follow-up courses available for Teddy Eddie graduates, who are young children with an incredibly high level of language skills. So we have no choice but to create them ourselves! With great passion and dedication, Diana Kubica develops the Savvy Ed method so that every graduate of Teddy Eddie courses, in over a hundred schools already licensed, has the chance to continue learning at the highest level.

We recognise that our methods are helping language schools achieve incredible growth and that there is a great need to unite, collaborate and share ideas and best practices. This is why we hold our first national conference for members of our network, with around 30 participants. Eddie’s Garden opens a new chapter in the company’s history, adding synergy and collaboration to our values and giving us a fresh boost of energy.

One day we wake up with the thought that our company can no longer be called Teddy Eddie! After all, in addition to the preschool method, we now offer Savvy Ed, we organise a conference and we are starting to support licensees in many areas (methodology, marketing, school organisation). So we redefine our brand identity and change our name. From now on we are Edu Bears!

With several hundred schools and tens of thousands of children using our methods in Poland, we start thinking about entering new markets and introducing children from other countries to our ambitious and innovative approach. The Teddy Eddie method finds its way into schools in the Czech Republic, then Slovakia and Spain, and it seems to work just as well everywhere!

It is no surprise that, as our students grow, we see the need to add another method to our educational pathway to help our learners become truly global citizens. The graduates of our Edward’s League courses are young ambitious teenagers with a very good command of English (high school level by the end of primary school), but above all with great self-confidence and the belief that they can achieve anything.

We organise the industry’s biggest education event, bringing together nearly 500 people with a passion for ambitious education, who are guided by values such as quality, children’s wellbeing and positive communication. We raise over PLN 60,000 for charity and the good energy keeps us flying high!