By the time May rolls around, everyone has pretty much checked out of school. It is (usually) warm and everyone is busy making summer plans. So busy, in fact, that sometimes they forget about giving out teacher gifts until the last-minute. Panic!

Here are two important things to remember: 1) You don’t have to give a teacher gift. As a teacher, I can say I don’t think badly of families who don’t give me a gift. It is just an added bonus. 2)  Teachers are people too. Just like you wouldn’t want 12 coffee mugs with cutesy lawyer sayings on the, we don’t need 12 coffee mugs with cutesy teacher sayings on them. But when we get them, we do appreciate them because it is the thought that counts. But here is a list of three gifts teachers will love.