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Wishing we were back celebrating our Metro Nashville teachers at GEODIS Park. We had a blast at our #Together4Teachers Pep Rally on Monday night and hope all our teacher friends did as well! Thank you to all those who helped appreciate our teachers 👏 - Our hosts: Nashville Soccer Club - Our sponsors and volunteers: Amazon, Dollar General, Nissan Motor Corporation, Coca-Cola Consolidated, Asurion, Ingram Charities, Nashville Predators, BODYARMOR Sports Nutrition, C Spire and Deloitte - Our special guests, supporters, and all our vendors: Outback Steakhouse, WSMV, Lydia Fielder, Freddie O'Connell, Southwest Airlines, Creative Artists Agency, and many more!

Welcome back, teachers! We saw your excitement and celebration at PENCIL's Together 4 Teachers yesterday at GEODIS Park and it was awesome. Special thank you to PENCIL, event sponsors and volunteers who organized the annual event. ✏

Together 4 Teachers! 🥳 Shoutout to the incredible partners who helped bring one of our favorite nights of the year to life #Together4Teachers 2024 Thank you Coca-Cola Consolidated, Dollar General, Amazon, Nissan Motor Corporation, Nashville Soccer Club and all of our wonderful sponsors and food vendors - we couldn’t do it without you. And to TEACHERS - we hope you feel celebrated and ready to take on a new school year! ✏️ #PENCILforSchools #MNPSforAll

And that’s a wrap… Another successful Pack-A-Thon, presented by Asurion. Thank you to our friends at Nissan Motor Corporation for closing out Day 3! With the help of our generous sponsors and hardworking volunteers, we are ready to celebrate our Metro teachers. See you at the Pep Rally on Monday, MNPS! #Together4Teachers

Pack-A-Thon Day 2 is complete! Thank you to our volunteers from Nashville Predators, Nashville Soccer Club, GEODIS, and Coca-Cola Consolidated for working hard to pack our teacher supply bags today! Only one more pack until we are ready to distribute these classroom essentials to our Metro teachers! #together4teachers

The fun has officially begun! Thank you to our speedy Asurion and Dollar General volunteers, who packed more than 1,200 teacher supply bags to kick-off day one of our Pack-A-Thon, presented by Asurion. We are #Together4Teachers ✏️

Meet PENCIL’s new Partnership Manager – Taylor Woodard, a Fisk University Alumna and Tennessee-native. Taylor will work with business/civic partners to support the needs of our schools in North Nashville. Please join us in welcoming Taylor to the #PENCILPack 👏

Who’s ready to start packing teacher supply bags? This week kicks off the start of our 2024 Together 4 Teachers festivities, and we couldn’t be more excited. During the three-day Pack-A-Thon, our corporate sponsors will pack and prepare the giveaways for next week’s Pep Rally for MNPS teachers! Special thank you to our lead District Sponsors Amazon, Dollar General, and Nissan Motor Corporation, for making the #Together4Teachers project possible! Let the celebrations begin🎉

Excited to see the empty summer shelves of the #DGPENCILBox adorned with new school supplies again! Thank you to our volunteers from the Dollar General IT department for helping us prepare the store for the new school year 📚✏️✂️ Peek at those yellow glasses☀️ Today also marks the start of #TheYellowGlassesProject, shining a light on literacy and education with signature sunnies. #ShineBrighter

Do you plan to attend PENCIL's annual Back to School Breakfast fundraiser, presented by Tennessee Builders Alliance & Tennessee Titans, on 8/22? We'd love to see you there! At this event, you will hear from Metro students and teachers about the resources that truly help them succeed, sign up for hands-on volunteer opportunities in schools this fall, and learn about the impact your giving can make on our youngest learners. Learn more & register: https://lnkd.in/e59Fnpa6