Steve Amy knew he wanted to be a coach one day, growing up in a house with a father who was a multi-sport coach and teacher. He just didn’t know he wanted to teach. He said once he started teaching at Princeton, "it was a lot of fun. We have great kids here. Makes it easy.”

Read our Thank You Teachers letters for Bureau County here

If you ask Hall High School’s science teacher Nicky Barto what advice she would give to her students about their future career, it would be this:

Ohio Grade School's Linda Downey has been a teacher for 28 years – 20 of them in a first grade classroom.

Teaching dual credit courses for Illinois Valley Community College puts Vince Brolley back in high school, where he feels right at home.  

Margo Cartwright will retire from Jefferson Elementary School in Princeton at the end of the school year.

Putnam County High School art teacher Joshua Curry believes cultivating a student’s creativity is important. He has a way of encouraging risk taking and instilling confidence in students.

Today we celebrate and honor first responders across our communities in northern Illinois

After retiring after 35 years teaching at La Salle-Peru High School in May 2021, Bill Booker has taken on a part time job teaching PE three days a week at Mendota Holy Cross