REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION 9

For the last decade, Kathleen Carter has worked to educate bilingual students in the Urbana School District as a dual-language Spanish teacher. She’ll enter her second year at the...

After student teaching at Stratton Academy of the Arts in 2017 as a senior at the University of Illinois, Danielle Mallett said she became “attached” to her school. As a French ...

After graduating from the University of Illinois in 2018, Kate Robinson decided to give teaching a try with Teach for America. After getting three school years under her belt in S...

After discovering the Urbana school district at a job fair during her senior year at Illinois State University in the spring of 2022, Alyssa Ginzburg immediately realized the dist...

When Illyanna Lopez became a student teacher at Jefferson Middle School in 2016, she found her home for the next decade-plus. Since then, the math teacher has only added to her ro...

Hannah Romanchuk wasn’t looking to follow her mother into the teaching profession, even after she graduated from University of Illinois with a degree in education. After a few ca...

Growing up, Meghan Gentry vowed she wouldn’t become a teacher after seeing how hard her mother worked, both as a teacher and principal. Buy after spending two years in college wo...

After entering into education as an English teacher in 2020, William Villaflor had a realization during the pandemic. Students needed their social/emotional needs met, and he want...

As library/media specialist at Carrie Busey Elementary School in Savoy, Mandee Crow sees students evolve through the books they read. In her three years on the job, she has worked...

In her 31 years of teaching, Katy Bierman has never left the kindergarten room, and for the last 27 years, she’s taught in her hometown of Tolono at Unity West Elementary School. ...

Jeff Birdsley ’s career in education began as a teacher of college students — first as a grad student working on his Ph.D. at Michigan State, and then as an adjunct instructor at...

This quarter, International Prep Academy’s Staci Ward instituted a weekly initiative titled “Carreras before IPA,” in which the school’s staff members list their career history be...

Students in Jeanette Brosam’s class are rarely left without an engaging activity. Throughout the year, the 24-year teaching veteran and her students hatch chicks through the Cham...

In her first year at Kenwood Elementary School, third-grade teacher Esther Frisbie simply wanted to give back to a community that gave so much to her when she arrived from the Dem...

Growing up in Champaign, Alicia Liay von Bodman was told by multiple educators that she had what it took to become a teacher. Despite dismissing those suggestions at the time, she...

Mary Beth Early’s love for history began when her teachers at Springfield High School inspired her with their deep dives into interesting topics. It was only after she graduated f...

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CHAMPAIGN, Ill. (WCIA) — Two Champaign middle schools were recognized by the Illinois State Board of Education for their improvement last year. Both Edison and Jefferson Middle S...

Evidence of his students’ work is all over Michael McLoughlin’s classroom and in the hallways of St. Joseph Grade School and Middle School, where he teaches art. Origami creature...

THOMASBORO — It was a special night to honor one of Prairieview-Ogden’s own. Former 24-year superintendent and volleyball coach Vic White was celebrated for his remarkable achiev...