Teachers' Treasures, Inc.

Did you know you can support local educators and classrooms every single time you grocery shop— at absolutely zero cost you? 🍎✨

When you link your Kroger Plus Card to Teachers’ Treasures, Kroger will donate a portion of your purchases directly to us. It takes less than two minutes to set up, and those regular grocery runs turn into essential school supplies for teachers and students in our community!

Swipe through the graphic to see the easy step-by-step instructions for the Kroger app or website (or save this post for your next shopping trip!) 🛒👇

Organization Name: Teachers’ Treasures
Organization Code: SH166

Thank you for helping us stock the shelves for our amazing teachers! ❤️

Things get germy in our classrooms.

5,000 Lysol tubs went out the door to keep our teachers and students healthy this past school year. Lined up end to end, that many Lysol wipe tubs equal:

323 Elephants stacked on top of each other.
3 Eiffel Towers stacked on top of each other.
12 football fields.

However you stack it, Lysol/Clorox/Disinfecting wipes are a vital part of our classrooms' success. Pitch in this summer with a supply drive to help keep everyone healthy for the long run! https
://www.teacherstreasures.org/the-pencil-push-program

And just like that...it's been two years with our Volunteer and Program Manager, Sarah Gregory! Help us take a moment to offer congratulations to this detail-oriented, auction crushing, gardening aficionado, dog mom, party planning queen! Sarah brings a vast background of event organizing, volunteer support, and work with students of a variety of ages. We're lucky to have her! Thank you, Sarah! Get some rest this weekend!

Last school year, we gave out over 68,000 pocket folders to our teachers!

We did some very official math and discovered that the weight of 68,000 pocket folders is roughly the same as:

-A classic Airstream trailer
-A well equipped Jeep
-38 baby elephants
-13 adult grizzly bears
-510 bowling balls
-3,825 large pizzas

No matter how you measure it* --the need for pocket folders is greater than ever.

Work with your friends, coworkers, family, and community to collect pocket folders by participating in our Pencil Push Summer Supply Drive: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/pencils2026

Whether you donate an elephant's worth or just a few, your support will tip the scales for a brighter future for our students!

(*We are tempted to measure all things in baby elephants from now on)

Our 2025-2026 school year has officially wrapped! This past year had many great moments and wins, here are 8 of our favorite.

🛒 Teacher Shopping:
- Teachers took out over $8 million of school supplies cart-by-cart

- Our Northwest Middle School Location put out $516,538 of supplies to 647 teachers this year

- We opened our 3rd shopping location with the help of the Washington Township Foundation

🌟 Fundraising:
- We celebrated our biggest Dream Big Gala yet, raising over $200,000 for our mission

- We sold out the Donut Dash 5K and welcomed in new partners, including IPS students, Ghostbusters, and Rowdie

- Staff and directors came together for Concerts for a Cause which raised over $50,000 for our mission!

💚 Other notable moments:
- We focused on sustainability, helping furniture and items find new homes thanks to partners.

- We Celebrated Teachers During Teacher Appreciation Month by giving gift cards and prizes.

Our summer camps and programs took out over $300,000 of material for their students this week! We are so excited to hear about all the creative ways our shoppers are going to use all these unique items!

Have a great summer everyone--stay hydrated and wear sunscreen!

Dry Erase Markers mean that students can try again and again and again and again (and again and again and again). Teachers can't get enough of them and in the hands of a student they allow growth, play, and mistakes made and lessons learned. Help us put this vital tool into our classrooms by participating in a summer supply drive with your company, club, faith group, neighborhood, or friend group: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/pencils2026

Teachers’ Treasures will be closed on Monday, May 25 in observance of Memorial Day. We will reopen during normal business hours on Tuesday.

Today, as many teachers and students are celebrating their last day of the school year, we want to share a special story of how teachers can touch lives for years to come.

Every teacher has students they never forget.

For Deb, one former student came back into her life decades after leaving her classroom — not because everything turned out perfectly, but because someone still believed in his ability to move forward. Click to read this powerful new story in our “Why I Teach” series and see how one teacher’s compassion continued to change a life long after the classroom days were over. 💙

A Teacher Never Really Stops Teaching — Teachers' Treasures Every teacher carries a few students with them long after the classroom lights are turned off. For Deb, one of those students comes from a class she taught early in her career… a group she still remembers for their closeness, their shared neighborhood, and the way they shaped her as a young teache...

We're 3 weeks into celebrating our top 8 requested items as we prepare for a summer of community supply drives!

A student with crayons in hand can make this world a more beautiful place. Sign up to work with your company, club, faith-group, team, or neighborhood to make sure students can scribble out loud in all the colors of the rainbow! https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/pencils2026