Founder of Joyful Classrooms, Brittany Ann Cufaude is also known as a teacher, coach, and author. Brittany created Joyful Classrooms to bring joy and equity to all children through a devotion to continuous learning and a compassionate community. Brittany has been a teacher for over fifteen years. During this time, she’s taught adult women and their children in a women’s shelter, high-school-aged mothers, kinder friends, high schoolers, and generally children of all ages, in English and in Spanish. She spent the most consecutive years teaching as an intensive reading interventionist at a middle school, and has spent years teaching other teachers effective teaching strategies. Brittany is the author of Lessons in Joy.