At Coffee and Sneakers, we create engaging, rigorous resources for upper elementary classrooms that balance meaningful learning with real classroom practicality. With experience teaching ELA, math, science, and AIG/gifted learners, we understand the unique energy, challenges, and chaos that come with teaching the “big kids.” We believe engagement is just as important as rigor, and our goal is to help teachers spend less time planning and more time focused on teaching, learning, and connecting with students. Wondering how we got our name? Between pacing the classroom, recess duty, and everything in between, cute shoes didn’t stand a chance—so sneakers became the uniform. And coffee? That’s just how we keep going. It’s the teacher life, summed up in two essentials.
