--- title: Google Doodle Celebrates Teacher Appreciation Week description: Here's what you need to know about the new Google doodle celebrating Teachers Appreciation week. canonical: https://time.com/5267660/google-doodle-teacher-appreciation-week/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-07T13:16:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-08-04T07:47:17.986Z og:title: The Meaning Behind the Google Doodle Celebrating Teachers og:description: Instead of some excuse for being late, Google gave teachers a Google Doodle og:url: https://time.com/5267660/google-doodle-teacher-appreciation-week/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Meaning Behind the Google Doodle Celebrating Teachers twitter:description: Instead of some excuse for being late, Google gave teachers a Google Doodle twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Here's the Meaning Behind the Google Doodle Celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week > Sponsored content. 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Our videographer went to the Googleplex in Mountain View, California to meet some of the designers and coders who create the special, clever variations on the Google.com logo known as_ by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 7, 2018 1:16 PM UTC by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman May 7, 2018 1:16 PM UTC On Monday, instead of some excuse for being late, [Google gave teachers a Google Doodle](http://time.com/5187121/gabriel-garcia-marquez-google-doodle/). The May 7 [doodle](https://www.google.com/doodles/teacher-appreciation-week-begins) celebrates Teacher Appreciation Week, otherwise known as National Teacher Day, which is observed in the first full week of May. Google’s doodle honors – with orange, turquoise and yellow letters – the practice of asking deep and ongoing questions in pedagogy. You’ll even notice something bubbling up in a chemistry beaker, a book, and Saturn along the brightly colorful letters. Surprisingly, Google didn’t turn to the students to make it. Instead, [Google](http://time.com/5185145/google-doodle-edelweiss-flower/) tapped 55 of the country’s state Teachers of the Year to help create the Monday’s doodle at Google headquarters. Google’s homepage seeks to respond to the key question “what does it mean to be a teacher?” Ohio’s Teacher of the Year Jonathan Juravich explained the inspiration behind their answer. > [](https://twitter.com/Gryczewski/status/993471403839107072) “The teachers spoke of connections, the search for answers and the resulting new inquiries. We discussed the journey we take with our students as they process who they are and their place within the world,” he said. Every day this week, Googles is pledging to double donations made to a single category of classroom projects through DonorsChoose.org. 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