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Teacher Appreciation Week (the first full week in May) is a time to honor teachers and recognize the lasting contributions they make to our lives. Here at Mathnasium, we champion that cause and we want to send our local teachers all of the appreciation they can stand!
We work alongside your students’ teachers throughout the year to fill in gaps and provide support for your students where it’s needed. We’re always amazed by the resourcefulness we see from teachers as they go above and beyond to engage with all of their students!
We’ll be celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week at Mathnasium by decorating Teacher Appreciation cards, sharing stories about our favorite teachers, and working with our local schools to provide some gift baskets and other treats to the teachers who have gone above and beyond this year. And you can help!
Everybody enjoys hearing that they’re appreciated, and a card or a note is a great way to share your appreciation so that it can be revisited and remembered throughout the year. Mathnasium students are able to decorate a Teacher Appreciation Card during their visit, or you can print this one out and decorate it at home!
Download Teacher Appreciation Card
This May we want to show our local teachers how much we appreciate them! Nominate you and/or your student’s favorite teacher and they could win a basket full of goodies from Mathnasium!
To nominate a teacher for this prize:
✨ Visit one of our social media pages and find any of the Teacher Appreciation Contest posts
✨ Comment with your teacher nomination
✨ Make sure to include the NAME of the teacher as well as the GRADE and SCHOOL they teach at. (This is so we know where to deliver the prize if they win)
✨ We’d also love to hear about WHY you’re nominating this teacher!
Entries are being accepted during Teacher Appreciation Week, from May 2nd - 6th
The winner will be announced on our Facebook and Instagram pages on May 9th!
Ms. Koehler and Ms. Beckett were my English teachers senior. year. There is no way I could mention one without the other. Both welcomed their students with open arms and created a classroom environment that no other teacher could. They worked wonderfully as a team to make education fun. Both of them taught me how to never give up and if I put my mind to it anything is possible. Ms. Koehler shared her love of chocolate bars to everyone. Ms. Beckett shared her love of experience and knowledge with everyone. To this day, I keep in touch with them both. I'm so gratefully I had the opportunity to learn from them; they truly are the type of teachers you never forget.
One of my favorite teachers was my 9th grade English teacher, Mrs. Swadek. She had us read interesting books, engaged us in fun conversations, and assigned meaningful homework/projects. She was a tough (but fair) grader, which made me work extra hard. Beyond English class topics, Mrs. Swadek was fun to talk to and showed interest in our lives as people. I looked forward to English class each day because Mrs. Swadek delicately balanced fun and learning. She called us her “little dumplings,” among other colorful things, and is just a really cool person who I’m grateful to know.
My favorite teacher is Mrs. Baldwin, 5th grade, Del Dayo Elementary. She was the teacher who influenced my love of reading and encouraged perspective. I was a very deep thinker, even at that young age, and I had questions about things, situations and why people did what they did. One of the many books she made us read was Where The Red Fern Grows. I always understood the relationship between animals and humans because I grew up on a ranch, but this book taught me about the highest form of love which is sacrifice and selflessness. That book was deeper than a relationship you have with your animal and intuitively I knew that. I remember her sitting with me and teaching me about symbolism and how it is everything we see, touch, and hear after school one day and I will never forget her calm, graceful ways of talking. After that 5th grade experience, I never read the same, thought the same or perceived things based on an outer shell. Mrs. Baldwin taught me to dive deeper with my thoughts and perceptions. Best teacher ever!
