In our last blog post, we showed off some of our favorite gifts you guys had sent and received in all the other exchanges we just completed. But we felt the teachers exchange deserved a different kind of treatment. Rather than showing you a whole bunch of school supplies, we decided to show you the impact your gifts have made in the lives of teachers and students in almost 9,000 classrooms all around the country and the world.

We heard awesome stories of your generosity--many of you signed up for more than one teacher to gift to (some people even signed up for four!), and many of you spent way, WAY more than the customary $20. The average gift was $40, and altogether we spent more than $355,000 helping out. We heard of lots of people spending in the three-digit price range, and one person even spent $1,105 to send supplies to their teacher! (Check out the full stats here.)

What's that saying about a picture being worth a thousand words? And these pictures don't even begin to capture the difference you've made. THANK YOU!

Click on any of the pictures to go to the full post in the gallery.

P.S. For those of you asking, the gift cards for the teachers who went unmatched ARE coming. We've had a slight hiccup that has delayed things slightly, so we can't promise when you will get them, but we can promise that you WILL get them. You'll see another big announcement from us and get an email if it applies to you when it happens.