One year I was trying to think beyond the normal trinkets and gift cards for teacher gifts and stumbled upon this idea.  What teachers wouldn’t love knowing that the gift of education has been given in their honor for needy children across the world?  The World Vision ”catalog” offers a variety of options for different budgets.  If you’re like us, it’s still more than we normally spend for a single teacher.  So, we decided on a budget for all the teachers combined, chose the item(s), printed out descriptions of the gift item(s)from the website, and made Merry Christmas notes that money was given in their honor toward the item(s).  We got wonderful responses from the teachers.  They were so touched and grateful for such a thoughtful and meaningful gift in their honor. 

http://donate.worldvision.org/OA_HTML/xxwv2ibeCCtpSctDspRte.jsp?section=10372