There may be some difference in the age of Pat Gordon and the K-5 students she teaches music to at Momence’s Je-Neir Elementary School.

Allan Wills keeps a busy schedule at Gardner-South Wilmington, both as a math teacher and through his involvement in multiple sports and extracurriculars.

In a room decorated with signs, posters, the alphabet on the wall, books, small chairs, container trays and student artwork, Angela Furgal has a captive audience of 15 kindergarten students at Grace Christian Academy in Kankakee.

Allan Wills keeps a busy schedule at Gardner-South Wilmington, both as a math teacher and through his involvement in multiple sports and extracurriculars.

Read the letters from Kankakee County students to their teachers from our Thank You Teachers special section

Becky Williams, a preschool teacher at Bishop McNamara Catholic School's Bradley campus, decided as a second grader that teaching would be her career path.

Kankakee Community College's psychology professor Dr. Cari Stevenson has found a home in the classroom as a highly energized instructor.

In her first year teaching fifth grade students in Grant Park, Tracy Hood is making a difference.

Bourbonnais school teacher Josh McDaniel is recognized in the Daily Journal's Thank You Teachers special edition.