The 4th Annual
Five days of free, practical training to help busy elementary teachers start the school year with calm, confidence, and a plan that actually works.
📅 July 13–17, 2026 · 11am ET daily
How It Works
KISSS is built for busy teachers. Drop in live, grab the freebie, and walk away with one clear win every single day.
Five short, focused trainings — Monday through Friday, July 13–17. Each session is about an hour and packed with simple strategies you can use day one. Sessions are live only.
Every live attendee gets a free classroom-ready download. Real, usable resources — not fluff. You have to be there live to get it.
Hop into the KISSS Facebook group to ask questions, swap ideas, win extra giveaways, and keep the energy going between sessions.
The Schedule
Every session is live and free. Tap any day for the full breakdown, learning takeaways, and how to grab the daily gift.
A repeatable framework for centers that actually works — without spending your weekend prepping.
The mini-lesson formula that builds strong writers and saves hours of planning.
Short daily routines that turn grammar and spelling into wins instead of battles.
Stop choosing between science, social studies, and your sanity. Here is the simple way.
The grand finale — Jamie’s favorite time-saving moves that have changed teachers’ lives.
🎁 Your 5 Free Gifts
Show up live and we will hand you a brand-new freebie at the end of every training. Once you grab it, it’s yours to keep forever.
Sign up for email reminders at the top of this page so you don’t forget.
Show up live at 11am ET on training day — the gift link drops near the end of each session.
Click the gift card below to download it. Each gift unlocks right here when its session goes live.
A full year of ready-to-go morning slides — fun facts, prompts, and bell ringers for every day of school.
Available Monday at 11am ET Grab It →Plug-and-play mini lessons that build strong writers without the prep time.
Available Tuesday at 11am ET Grab It →Short, daily routines that make grammar and spelling stick — no worksheets required.
Available Wednesday at 11am ET Grab It →Simple lessons and resources to teach both science and social studies — without the chaos.
Available Thursday at 11am ET Grab It →The grand finale gift — Jamie’s favorite shortcuts, templates, and routines that change teachers’ lives.
Available Friday at 11am ET Grab It →📝 Quick Quiz
Five quick questions, three honest results. Find out which KISSS session will help you most — and what to do about it.
Answer 5 honest questions — no email required.
🤝 Bring a Teacher Friend
Everything’s better with a teacher friend. Share KISSS with your team — and walk into August with a built-in accountability partner.
Meet Your Host
Hi friend! I’m Jamie — a former elementary teacher who got tired of watching brilliant educators burn out from overcomplicated curriculum and Pinterest-perfect expectations. I built Not So Wimpy Teacher around one belief: teaching can be powerful AND simple.
Every July, I run KISSS as my favorite gift to the teaching community — five days of free training, real strategies, and a community of teachers who get it.
✨ Bonus for KISSS Attendees
After Day 1 you’ve heard the why. Now see the how. Lesson Genie helps you build a full week of differentiated lesson plans in under 5 minutes — no more Sunday-night spirals.
Available exclusively to KISSS attendees this week.
new Lesson Genie members this week
Watch the count climb all week 🎈
LessonGenie.astro Resources
Bookmark this page. We will keep posting downloads and goodies here all week long.
Your week-at-a-glance plus what to bring.
Open → CalendarSave all 5 sessions to Google / Apple / Outlook.
Open → RemindersGet a heads-up before each session goes live.
Open → CommunityJoin thousands of teachers all week.
Open →The Real KISSS Mission
KISSS isn’t just about saving you time on lesson plans. It’s about giving you permission to set real boundaries around your teaching — and the practical tools to make those boundaries stick.
Every session this week is built on one belief: a calm, present, well-rested teacher will always do more for kids than an exhausted, burned-out one. Simple isn’t lazy. Boundaries aren’t selfish. You deserve a life outside of your classroom — and that’s the whole point of why we do this every July.
Your evenings and weekends belong to you. Period. We’ll show you systems that make this possible — without lowering the bar for your students.
Committee invitations, parent requests, district initiatives — “no” is a complete sentence. We’ll show you how to say it without guilt.
Your students don’t need a themed bulletin board every month. They need a calm, present teacher. Simple is enough — and often better.
You can’t pour from an empty cup. Recovery isn’t laziness — it’s how great teachers stay great year after year.
🎂 The Grand Finale + A Birthday
July 17 isn’t just KISSS’s most popular session of the week — it’s also Jamie’s birthday. Every year, the finale is a giant teacher party, and this year we’re cranking the confetti up to 11.
Friday goes live in soon 🎈
new Lesson Genie members this week
Help us hit a record. Every sign-up = one more teacher with a calmer fall.
She reads every single one. Keep it short, sweet, or silly — anything goes.
Happy birthday Jamie! Thank you for everything you do for teachers like me. KISSS is the best week of my summer.
Sample Teacher 3rd Grade · TX
Wishing you the most relaxing, simple, and joyful birthday. You've given so many of us our weekends back!
Sample Teacher 5th Grade · OH
Birthday cake AND a finale session?? Best Friday ever. Thank you for being you, Jamie. 🎂
Sample Teacher 2nd Grade · FL
🌟 Why teachers come back every year
KISSS gave me my Sundays back. I cried during the time-saving session — in a good way.
Jamie has a gift for taking the overwhelming and making it doable. I tell every teacher I know about KISSS.
I have attended every KISSS since year one. I always walk away with one game-changing idea I can use the very next week.
The Facebook group alone is worth it. Such a kind community of teachers who actually want to help each other.
Questions?
Quick answers to what teachers ask us most. Still need help? Scroll down to the support card.
Live Community
Ask questions, swap ideas with thousands of teachers, and get real-time help from our team — plus daily giveaways all week.
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