Yacker Tracker would like to wish everyone a Safe and Happy Holiday Season!

Over the past several months we have told you about the many fantastic ways our Yacker Tracker has been utilized. Now with the holiday’s close at hand and the need to find that gift for that hard to buy for person… maybe a Yacker Tracker will fit the bill.

The Yacker Tracker would make an incredibly unique and personalized gift for so many working in schools, hospitals, business and doctor’s offices, child care, fitness facilities, the list just goes on.

Anywhere there is a need to monitor sound in a way that is not overly invasive or offensive, the Yacker Tracker is perfect.

So surf on over to Yacker Tracker and find the perfect, unique and incredibly useful gift for that person that is hard to buy for!

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Yacker Trackers are being used for so many helpful and innovative ways!

Over the years we have been thrilled to have our invention being used in classrooms, school cafeterias, hospital ICUs, nurses stations, waiting rooms, deaf schools, business offices,  and even Trader Joe’s! Lately we have been hearing of new and imaginative ways in which the Yacker Track and Deluxe Yacker Tracker are being used.

Here are just a few of the comments we have received.

“We use the Yacker Tracker at our fitness facility. It helps us determine how loud to keep our spin music which is next to a Child Care COOP room. When the red light illuminates, the instructor knows to turn down the music. It’s fantastic!

We love the Yacker tracker here at the MWR Fitness Center in West Point, NY. However, we loathe replacing the batteries. Is there a way we can purchase the 9VDC power cord to plug in?” It never came with the order."

Sincerely,"

~Cory

“I am a police officer and use the lights to teach traffic safety. Do you think the new Yacker can be wired to cycle with a three way toggle switch?"

~Joni

How will you use your Yacker Tracker? If you'd like to join in and let us know you have used Yacker Tracker in some innovative and/or unusual ways you use it, please contact us and tell us all about it. Send us a picture and we will post it!!

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The DEMAND and uses for Yacker Tracker is growing in ways we never imagined!

Users of Yacker Trackers are growing, and in ways we never thought. Yacker Tracker started out as being a simple tool to help teachers gain noise control in their classrooms. Yacker Tracker is now sold in almost every country in the world and used in such imaginative ways, some frankly, never expected. Exciting!

In schools they've had great success with thousands of classrooms using them to monitor sound, but school employees are an imaginative lot. For example, schools for the deaf are using them as a visual reminder to students and school cafeterias are using them for group noise control. Speech teachers and theatrical companies are using them to measure projection and even Toast Masters have used them for both projection and length of speech as well.

Of course it's been well known that hospitals are using them not only in their nurse’s stations and waiting rooms, but did you also know that they are being used in their operating rooms as well?

Business offices have started to use them to quiet overly noisy workers. Railroad lines are using them to test the effects of noise on certain towns and housing tracks. Some city council chambers have used them to monitor the length of speaker's presentations and Trader Joe's have used them as a decoration for themes in their stores.

How will you use your Yacker Tracker? Set your imagination free and be sure to let us know in what ways you use the Yacker Tracker. And, if you'd like to join in and let us know you have used Yacker Tracker in some innovative and/or unusual ways you use it, please contact us and tell us all about it. Send us a picture and we will post it!!

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Yacker Tracker featured in Chico Enterprise-Record!

Did you know that the Yacker Tracker was featured in a newspaper in Chico, California? Learn a little bit more about the Yacker Tracker, its success in the classroom and a little bit about Fran in this article.

CHICO – The stop light turned red Friday after recess, setting off the Yacker Tracker siren in a first-grade classroom.

The 6- and 7-year-old students at Marigold School knew that meant they were being too loud. But they didn't know a Chico woman invented the machine.

Teacher Brian Holderman said he first saw the Yacker Tracker in a colleague's classroom and learned that a friend, Fran Rebello, conceptualized, designed and sold the device. So he called her, got one and started using it in his classroom about five years ago.

"I think first-graders forget how to whisper," Holderman said.

The machine is shaped like a stop light, with lights that illuminate at an OK noise level of green, somewhat noisy at yellow and too loud for red, which sets off a warning. The decibel level can be adjusted depending on desired noise level.

"It puts the students in control," Rebello said. "It's self-monitored. So the teacher isn't always telling them to be quiet.”

Read the full article at Local inventor catches eyes, ears, national attention.
Original - By KATY SWEENY - ChicoER

We are proud of the help that the Yacker Tracker gives to teachers, hospitals, and wherever else it may be useful. Pick up your Yacker Tracker or the Yacker Tracker Deluxe, today.

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Some of what teachers are saying about the Yacker Tracker

"This Yacker Tracker is not being used as a toy but as a tool in assisting classroom management in a kindergarten classroom. It does everything I had hoped it would. When the red light goes off and the siren sounds because the classroom is too loud, I don't have to say a thing. I would suggest that some kind of consequence be associated with it, however. After keeping it for a week for the children to get used to, I added a consequence for each time the siren went off. If there is no consequence, it can become a toy and the children will intentionally speak loudly to get it to go off (especially when the siren is not on). I've found it a great help and no longer have to have it on all the time."

D. Laramie

"This is really a great device for monitoring noise in any environment. We are using it in a hospital setting to inform staff and visitors when the noise level is too high. It is big enough to be seen and small enough to move around. There is no argument about what is too loud and it becomes the nagging nanny instead of some concerned person.

In conclusion, if you need to control noise levels and constant reminders don't seem to work, give this thing a try. It doesn't care if you give it a dirty look, it still flashes red and it won't go away."

Marilyn Janis Anderson

"The class loves the traffic light! They are always asking to have it on. This lets the children monitor their own noise level. It keeps me (the teacher) from saying "I think you are too loud" and worrying that maybe I am in a glunky mood and a little more sensitive that day. Now it is the traffic light that lets the kids know they are too loud. They know that the yellow is a warning. If it goes to red they lose some recess time. We brought this light up to the lunch room and all the teachers couldn't believe how quiet the lunch room was. Both the young eaters and the older grades were much more aware of their own noise. I recommend it to schools!"

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"The Yakker Trakker takes the work out of quieting a classroom. I teach high school math. When I first turned the machine on I thought the siren was too soft but the kids absolutely hate it. If you set it to 50 or 60 decibels it does go off with even a slight bit of noise. I use this mode for a penalty. If the kids are being loud I set it to 60 for 2 minutes. The yakker trakker will go off a lot in those two minutes but you will be shocked at how quiet your class becomes after those 2 minutes. Classroom talking is definitely a snowball effect. If you stop the momentum with the yakker trakker it will soon die out. I do wish they made a 65 dB level because I find that 60 is too sensitive and 70 is not sensitive enough. Other than that I must say that I LOVE the yakker trakker. It has really changed my life!!! I no longer find myself yelling at my period 5 class. If they are talking all I have to do is start tracking the yacking. Thanks Yakker Trakker."

Jeremy

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Yacker Tracker: Part of Classroom Control Video

This teacher shot this video for her students. She incorporates the Yacker Tracker as part of a behavior management program, including a reward. How do you use your Yacker Tracker?



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Teachers using Yacker Tracker around the world!

A few of the videos we have found published.

Mrs. Hofer brings back an old friend… The Yacker Tracker!

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This teacher goes over the features of the Yacker Tracker and demonstrates it live in his classroom.

Published by Martin Yaney

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We would like to hear from you!

We know Yacker Tracker has become a part of many people's daily lives and touch so many over the years. Now we'd like to hear from you. Please share your story with us about how Yacker Tracker has helped you. Whether you've used it in a unique way or not, we want you to share your success story with us. Please go to the contact form on our website to post your Testimonial or post below! We will post it on the Yacker Tracker Blog and on the Testimonials page on the Yacker Tracker website.

Here’s a testimonial from a few years back…

“Hello, I just wanted to let you know that we are a family of 9 with 7 adopted children. Most of them have ADHD, ADD, ODD, PTSD, and attachment issues. One of my children screams every night before bed, another cries like an infant if angry and another just can't control there noise levels. The Yacker Tracker had made everyone in the home aware of the noise they each make and has helped them to gain additional control. I thought you should know that a family can use this too. :) Thank You” -Janelle Mom

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A Brief History of the Yacker Tracker

It was one of the toughest courses the university had for its 5th year graduate students. The course, for teaching majors, was Classroom Management, and is arguably one of the toughest tasks that teachers face: techniques of keeping your classroom calm and quiet for appropriate learning environments.

Then in 2001, the Yacker Tracker won the new product ‘Best of Show’ award from the NSSEA (National School Supply and Equipment Association)

In 2003, Fran introduced the Deluxe Yacker Tracker featuring a handy remote control.

A few years later in 2011, the Yacker Tracker was redesigned to be more efficient, featuring the phrase “Quiet Please” in 7 languages due in large part to the Yacker Tracker’s success with hospitals and medical offices, and also partially due to new OSHA requirements.

The year was 1999 and Fran Rebello, then a teacher at the university, came up with a rather ingenious idea, an invention known as TAG, short for The Attention-Getter. When she combined that with another teacher who was using a sound meter, the original Yacker Tracker was born.

2012 – Testimonial

“Your contribution to our school has impacted the behavior of over 500 students. The Yacker Tracker has helped give the students a better self-monitoring tool during lunch time. Students are able to see the lights go off when they are getting too loud and then they quiet down. There is a reward system in place for when the students do well and don't trigger the red light to go off too many times. The primary grades have been extremely successful since the implementation of the Yacker Tracker and continue to do well. The intermediate grades are still getting used to the Yacker Tracker. Thank you so much for supporting our cause. Because of you, our students are eating lunch and are better prepared for the classroom.”

With gratitude,
Ms. Warrington

Then in 2013, the Yacker Tracker was used in a television documentary on how loud train whistles were at different distances, in other words, just how many miles away a person could hear train whistles and how loud they were at those distances.

In 2015, the Yacker Tracker was included in the book Mastering Leadership: A Vital Resource for Health Care Organizations, as a tool to measure and self-monitor noise levels in hospital waiting rooms, nurses stations, and surgery rooms.

Again, if you'd like to join in and add your testimonial about how using the Yacker Tracker has helped you, or some innovative and/or unusual ways you use it, please contact us and tell us all about it.

There's much more to this story that we will bring you in upcoming posts.

The one and only original Yacker Tracker by AGI Attention-Getters, Inc!

Yacker Tracker is one of the most original, kid-friendly noise control products that have ever been invented.

The familiar traffic light signal design is put to appropriate use in measuring the amount of sound in a classroom, hospital patient hallways, just about anywhere.

You can find the Yacker Tracker in schools, hospitals, and even in a mine in Australia. Over the next few months we will tell you a little bit about the history of Yacker Tracker, the background of its' creator, Fran Rebello, and even some testimonials from people who use it. On that note, if you'd like to join in and add your testimonial about how using the Yacker Tracker has helped you, or some innovative and/or unusual ways you use it, please contact us and tell us all about it.

So hang out with us as we continue this fascinating and inspiring tale throughout the year!

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