Below find some great ideas for Teacher Appreciation Week from our Facebook community:

Robin K: My son has taken a small present to his teacher each day this week. He also wrote Thank You notes to all of his teachers.

Oseme Claire J: I thanked my teacher for her hard work and effort throughout the year.

Jamie Krambeer S: I put together a video featuring various kids from around the school telling their teachers why they thought they were special. I showed it to our teachers and staff this morning! Our parent group also treated them to some delicious cake!

My favorite high school teacher from last year got this year's school teacher of the year! He always high fives his students as he passes by in the halls. He's really tall and we all have to reach up high. At the district award ceremony, they called him up and gave him a $250 donation for his class supplies. I waited for him in the aisle on the way to his seat and, on his way back, reached up and high fived him. Tippy-toes!

For teachers appreciation week I gave my 7th grade social studies teacher a card. I wanted to be funny about it, so since he is left handed I wrote “To: Mr. Lefty” and he got a huge smile and laugh out of it!! I will never forget my social studies teacher. He shows me that school can be funny, hilarious, and educating all at once....sometime you just gotta...LAUGH! :) Thx Mr. L - Gracie

My daughter, son and I went to the playground last night armed with sidewalk chalk. We put in big block letters, WE LOVE OUR TEACHERS. Then put all the teachers names in different colors throughout the playground.

Mr. Giesinger has turned two young men with Down syndrome around. My son would refuse to get out of bed because he hated school so much, now he gets mad when he can't go to school on Saturdays. He adores this teacher. His best friend Tyler hated school too. His mother had to fight with him every morning to get him out the door to school. Now he gets up and is anxious to go to school. Both kids have completely changed for the better! Thanks Mr. Giesinger!

My name is Renee and I have been teaching for 16 years. Over the years, I have met many students. One student has stayed in my mind for years, Nelly. Nelly was my student in the 90's. She was disabled and had to use walking sticks to walk. Nelly's parents were Hispanic immigrants to this country and they lived in a low socio-economic area. Nelly was in my junior high school drama class and despite being frustrated with her physical limitations and her academic ones too, Nelly was a ball of fire, always striving to reach her goals. After junior high school, Nelly went to a performing arts magnet. While in high school, she learned that she had dyslexia. After high school, Nelly went to USC as a film major. While there she spoke on a panel for disabled students and she switched her major to Political Science. After receiving her BA, Nelly went on to Harvard. After Harvard, Nelly worked for Gloria Molina in the LA downtown district. Now Nelly works for a Non-profit for disabled people in Washington DC. Even though I was Nelly's teacher, Nelly is the one who has inspired me over the years. Nelly has inspired me with her perseverance, her integrity, and her determination.

I'm 62 yrs. old. I have always had a very difficult time in school; ADD was unknown at the time I was in grade school. I struggled to stay alert in subjects that were not interesting too me. I did take a Nursing course and graduated valedictorian with straight A's, as that was the one subject that I enjoyed. Later on in my life I found a retired teacher who specialized in ADHD and ADD. We found each other on a fan site and she has taught me more in this last year than I ever learned in school. So thank you, Libb, for helping me to learn to pause before I think or say anything. A ten second time out has worked miracles for me. Many thanks to all the teacher's who are truly dedicated to helping everyone learn. Even me at 62!! Libb, once a teacher always a teacher, you are a gift given by God! ~Rhonda

When I was 15, back in the mid 70's, I was a skinny, gawky, self-conscious girl who found it difficult to express myself. I was also several years younger than my peers (Grade 12). To make things even worse, my beloved grandmother was dying, and my parents were in the throes of an ugly divorce. Remember, in the 70's, divorce was uncommon; my parents were the first I had ever heard of. Back then, some parents would stop their children from socializing with the children of divorce. My mother was suffering from a number of ailments, some of which she was hospitalized for, and I was responsible (my father had to work) for getting my younger siblings up in the morning, fed and off to school, pick them up after school, and do the bulk of the housework. I missed a lot of days, fell behind in my studies, and was very depressed. My biology teacher, Barbara Hick, took a personal interest in me...she became my closest confidant. She listened, offered advice, and gave the reassurances I needed to hear. I considered leaving school, but she encouraged me to stick it out, and helped build my self esteem immeasurably. I credit Barb for a lot of my successes...she often told me that I could do anything I wanted, that I was smart, funny, tenacious, all things I needed to hear. Her kindness and generosity of time were so important to me, and I will always remember her for that.

My son has Autism and barely speaks. We recently moved to a new school district and my son was registered at Anona Elementary school in their Pre-K Autism class. He started in Miss Jody's class the first week in December. There are five students besides my son, one teacher, Miss Jody, and two aides, Miss Stacey and Miss Terry. When Matthew (my son) started, he was averaging 19 head bangs a day. After just 3 weeks, he was down to zero. He knows his alphabet by sight and can make every letter sound now. He can count to 40. He knows all his primary colors and shapes. His behavior has made HUGE improvements. We are actually getting somewhere with potty training now. All this in just 5 months!!

Mrs. Bucholtz was a young new teacher at Ramona Elementary School in East Hollywood in the 70s. Most of the kids in the neighborhood came from broken homes and were Latchkey Kids, like myself. My feelings about her started the day I found out I was selected to be in her sixth grade class. I was so happy because the entire school knew she was the best teacher there. I had attended Ramona since I was in kindergarten and knew some of the older kids that had her the year before me. Mrs. Bucholtz made all the kids feel special, unlike what most of us felt at home. She made school fun by teaching us all different types of things in a new young-minded way. Of course, my favorite was art.