“A Teacher Appreciation Week full of laughter, genuine appreciation, and even a village fortune teller… AS YOU WISH!”

$89/school

National Teacher Appreciation Week is May 4-8, and yes, you still have plenty of time to pull this together. Most schools can get it ready in under an hour using our Quick Start setup.

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What is it?

Brand New for 2026, Once Upon a Teacher is the culmination of everything we’ve learned about creating fun, joyous appreciation weeks, and it has absolutely BLOWN AWAY our test schools.

The week centers around a humorous Princess Bride-type story featuring moments and challenges every teacher will find familiar. The story carries the week, but from there you layer in some of the funniest games, contests, and treats we’ve ever created.

What’s more, this might be the EASIEST week we’ve ever produced, taking all the stress off your plate. You simply distribute the story and accompanying appreciation notes, decide which contests or activities to include, and then enjoy the week as much as they do.

How Much?

$89/school

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Easily include all staff in the appreciation, not only teachers

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How it works

The week unfolds 2 short chapters per day, as it highlights the familiar moments every educator recognizes: choosing the profession, preparing for it, surviving the early years, and continuing on even when it wasn’t easy.

The thing is, nobody was there to thank them for those moments in real life… but now you’ll get to do just that!

While the story will be the shared experience that has everyone talking and wondering what comes next, the games and activities are some of the funniest we’ve ever made and serve to give the week the prefect balance.

You get to pick the ones you like for your school, layering in as many as you like, keeping it small or going big. Options include:

• Visit the Village Fortune Teller - “Madame Claire knows many things!”

• The Fairy Godmother Ticket Game - Multiplies the appreciation allowing everyone to get into the act

• Catch the Gingerbread Man… Wait, is that him driving a remote controlled car?!!

• The Enchanted Breakfast - “Enchanted,” of course, with the gentle spirits of concerned parents who just want everyone to eat a proper breakfast

• The Magic Bean Growing Contest - Pick a good one. It’s not our fault if your magic bean decides not to grow.

• If We Could Wave a Wand - An opportunity to truly help improve small details for your staff

• “Slay the Drag-on” Intercom Comedy Routine - If the week starts to “drag on”, it’s time for jokes that truly “slay.”

• And of course, “Sure, I’ll take my chances kissing that frog.”

Each can run independently. You simply decide which you like to include in your week.

How much time or extra money is involved?

The instructions take 35 minutes to review and customize the story. Everything is designed to be extremely easy.

You can have an amazing week simply by emailing the story chapters and thank you notes each day (how easy is that!), or you can decide to start layering in as many of the games and activities to go as big as you like. You are in control.

One person can run the entire week, or it can be shared across a team. There are no assemblies, no schedule changes, and no pressure to do it all. The story carries the week, and the fun follows naturally.

Sample

Click here for a sample of Chapter 1, normally emailed on Sunday evening to kick off your appreciation week, with the Thank You note hand delivered the next morning

Reviews

“This had our teachers in tears in just the best way ever. Watching people receive notes that acknowledged parts of their life no one had ever thanked them for before was incredibly powerful and I think deeply human. And then you always have such funny games, which was the laughter release and comradery that tied it all together. This week will be long remembered here at Northside.” – Philip Daniels

Email from a teacher to her principal: “I want to say a big thank you right back to you for everything you did for us with your Once Upon a Teacher story. At my old school they gave us hoodies for appreciation week and I think they spent a lot on them, but they don’t come close to how seen and appreciated you made us feel this week. I’ve been telling all my teacher friends and they are in awe. Thank you, and we appreciate you too!” -Julia Robben

“We’ve done Wicked and The Amazing Race and loved both of them, but I must say, you really outdid yourselves with Once Upon a Teacher. It was quick and easy to pull off, and my teachers just melted with every thank-you card and little moment of recognition. We added four of the games, one each day, and laughed with all of them. But I gotta say, we’ll be bringing that gingerbread man back anytime we need a little extra energy and some good laughs. That one was priceless. So, yes, I would recommend it, without hesitation, to any school.”– Grace Peters

Bundle and Save

The End-of-Year SNL Review is our #1 most requested program from our members, year after year.

Have your entire staff laughing out loud with our Saturday Night Live End-of-Year Review. We’ve made it simple for you to collect memories from your staff using our online survey, insert them into our hilarious Saturday Night Live presentation based off Weekend Update, and then perform it live during your final staff meeting or save it as a movie to share with everyone online. Click here to see details.

Add this to Once Upon a Teacher for only $20. You’ll see this option at checkout.

Membership

65% of schools who do one or more of our activities go on to join the yearlong Culture Plan membership, because the hard part isn’t creating one great week, it’s trying to start from scratch again in August, then October, then January…

For any school looking to uplift and bring more joy and laughter to your school on an ongoing basis, now is the time to join the Culture Plan during the Big Deal discount. You get everything: Once Upon a Teacher, AP Batman, End of Year SNL, and then ALL of the 26-27 school year through July, 2027.

All still fully guaranteed, but you’ll save over $375 by joining now. You’ll see this option at checkout as well.

About Class Team Building

Class Team Building is a collaboration between corporate team building experts and k-12 teachers to make professional-level, astonishingly fun, morale and culture programs available and affordable to schools.

We believe in making programs that are easy to implement, highly effective, and always 100% guaranteed.

Again, it’s 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed - Love it or email us to exchange or refund.