In her sixth year as girls volleyball coach and PE teacher at her alma mater, Bradley-Bourbonnais' Leigh Reiniche has added co-teaching the school's adapted PE class to her resume.

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

Amber Burks, an art teacher at Lorenzo Smith School, is recognized in the Daily Journal's Thank You Teachers special edition.

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.

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.

Herscher High School teacher Rebecca Williams loves mathematics

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.