media — teacher gifts

Every August, the back-to-school ritual begins again. New notebooks. Fresh pencils. Optimistic calendars. A heroic amount of coffee. And somewhere between classroom setup and lesson planning, you may realize you need a teacher appreciation gift that feels genuinely thoughtful, not another generic “World’s Best Teacher” mug destined for the back of a cabinet. The best gifts say, “I see your personality.” They are useful, memorable, and just unusual enough to spark a smile. That is where the psychology gets interesting. The Von Restorff Effect, also called the isolation effect, suggests that people remember the item that stands apart from the...