Teach by Kiki Joy

Cultivating Joy Inside and Outside of the Classroom

I help you find joy in your life as a teacher and beyond! With my experience and resources, I’ll help you find joy and fulfillment in your personal and professional life, despite challenges and obstacles. Let’s connect, laugh, fight for justice, and actively seek out joy, together!

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Featured Blog Posts

Parent-Teacher Conferences: A Stress-Free Guide

Parent-teacher conferences are an essential part of our role as educators, but they can sometimes feel like uncharted territory. Don't worry! In this blog post, I'm here to help you in making these meetings smoother, less stressful, and more enjoyable. I will address...

Open House Success Secrets

3 Tips to Rock Your Open House A Guide for Elementary School Teachers You’re looking at your calendar and your shoulders tense up when you see that Open House is just around the corner. Your brain is suddenly on overdrive and you’re thinking to yourself “What am I...

5 Ways to Increase Student Engagement and Creativity in the Classroom

Creativity and innovation are essential skills for success in the 21st century. By incorporating design thinking, maker spaces, project-based learning, digital tools, and play-based learning into your classroom, you can make learning more fun and engaging for your students. So go ahead and get creative with your lessons, and let’s help our students succeed in the classroom and beyond!

You got the keys to your classroom- now what?

This article has all the best tips for first time teachers. You don’t want to miss it!

Meet Kiki

Hey there! I’m Kiki, a third-grade bilingual teacher, wife, proud mom to a baby boy, and dog mama. I’ve also worn many other hats in my education career – instructional coach, mentor, advocate, and school board member, and more!

I’m passionate about education and fighting for social justice. I believe that finding joy in both the small and big moments of every day is crucial to staying inspired and motivated as a teacher. That’s why I’m so excited to share my personal journey with you and offer tools and resources to help you find joy in your own life and work.

Featured Resources

Steps to Teach Students Conflict Resolution

This product contains concrete steps to guide students through conflict resolution. This tool for social emotional learning can be used in the classroom, on the playground, in the cafeteria, and anywhere that students may need to problem solve together.

Bilingual SMART Goals Classroom Poster and Student Handout Set

Maximize your students’ success with this bilingual SMART Goals Classroom Poster and Student Handout set! Perfect for tracking progress and setting achievable goals for students in both English and Spanish. This resource includes a classroom poster, student handout, and a student goal-setting and reflection sheet.

Valentine's Day Heart Writing Activity

The activity includes a heart-shaped template for students to write on, and prompts for them to use various parts of speech to express their gratitude in their life and to reflect on their own self-esteem. Review and practice nouns, adjectives and verbs with the student handout, and then students get to write what they love about themselves and their lives.

Super Bowl Activities: Football-Themed Reading & Writing

This is the perfect activity for all 3rd to 5th grade students in a bilingual classroom or students learning Spanish as a foreign language! This activity set contains 5 football-themed reading topics, each with 3 different lexile levels to cater to students of different reading abilities.

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Testimonials

What Teachers are Saying

My students loved using the SMART goals resource! I was able to talk to them about goals that were based on specific academics. We used this as a guide for each trimester. Students were excited to see growth each trimester and see if they were able to meet their goal. If they didn’t meet we discussed how we could improve.

-Melissa M

I made a standards data binder using the Common Core math and reading tracker since our county is going to Standards Based Report Cards this year. This data tracker is just what I needed!

-Kimberly P.

I used the bilingual SMART goals resource to show parents how to make goals with their children and then I was able to post the templates in SeeSaw for them to use to set their learning goals. We are going to do it again next month. It is so helpful to have it in English and Spanish to make our parent meeting more inclusive. Thank you!!!”

 Dual Language Kiosk