Sep 22, 2026 · 44 min · 11 segments
What happens when two teacher besties decide to share a classroom and a business? We're sitting down with Kaila and Kristi, the duo behind Teachers Tea, to talk about the magic of team teaching, how…
So we're going to kind of shift gears a little bit here into the state of teaching right now in the province that we happen to live within.
Just around workload and how kind of people are feeling right now.
We talk a lot about teacher burnout, right? We talk about taking care of ourselves, teacher burnout, all those different things.
What do you do personally, both of you, to protect your joy of teaching?
That's hard because we are part-time, so I don't know that it's fair.
Not fair, but I don't know if it's equal that we say working part-time helps with our burnout, but it does.
It
does.
Yeah, that definitely helps us.
But I think also everyone will say this and it's not possible sometimes.
I would tell you in September, It's not possible, especially if you're working full time, to have a work-life balance with everything they put on you, right? With all the assessments and everything that everyone has to do.
PDs.
It's not possible.
New resources.
New
resources, new curriculum, new whatever each year.
I don't think that it...
How do you have a work-life balance? I have two mornings off a week or I have afternoons off.
That's how.
Yeah.
But for a full-time teacher, like, honestly, it's hard.
It's challenging.
Whether you have a family or not, whether you still have your personal life, you probably have, whether you have children or not, you probably have your own family, and it's a lot on teachers.
It's really hard right now.
I am the queen of disassociation, so I just ignore everything in the world and go about my day, and that's how I find my joy with it and just enjoy the students because none of it is their fault.
So we're going to kind of shift gears a little bit here into the state of teaching right now in the province that we happen to live within.
Just around workload and how kind of people are feeling right now.
We talk a lot about teacher burnout, right? We talk about taking care of ourselves, teacher burnout, all those different things.
What do you do personally, both of you, to protect your joy of teaching?
That's hard because we are part-time, so I don't know that it's fair.
Not fair, but I don't know if it's equal that we say working part-time helps with our burnout, but it does.
It
does.
Yeah, that definitely helps us.
But I think also everyone will say this and it's not possible sometimes.
I would tell you in September, It's not possible, especially if you're working full time, to have a work-life balance with everything they put on you, right? With all the assessments and everything that everyone has to do.
PDs.
It's not possible.
New resources.
New
resources, new curriculum, new whatever each year.
I don't think that it...
How do you have a work-life balance? I have two mornings off a week or I have afternoons off.
That's how.
Yeah.
But for a full-time teacher, like, honestly, it's hard.
It's challenging.
Whether you have a family or not, whether you still have your personal life, you probably have, whether you have children or not, you probably have your own family, and it's a lot on teachers.
It's really hard right now.
I am the queen of disassociation, so I just ignore everything in the world and go about my day, and that's how I find my joy with it and just enjoy the students because none of it is their fault.
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