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Allan Wills keeps a busy schedule at Gardner-South Wilmington, both as a math teacher and through his involvement in multiple sports and extracurriculars.
Thank You, Teachers
A tribute to education's local heroes
Daily Journal/Shaw Local News Network
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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.
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Bourbonnais school teacher Josh McDaniel is recognized in the Daily Journal's Thank You Teachers special edition.
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Read the letters from Kankakee County students to their teachers from our Thank You Teachers special section
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Amber Burks, an art teacher at Lorenzo Smith School, is recognized in the Daily Journal's Thank You Teachers special edition.
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Herscher High School teacher Rebecca Williams loves mathematics
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Kankakee Community College's psychology professor Dr. Cari Stevenson has found a home in the classroom as a highly energized instructor.
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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.
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Bishop McNamara Catholic High School teacher Tracey Valant had dreams of being a hair stylist upon her high school graduation, but her father had other ideas.
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It would be fair to say Manteno High School teacher CJ Boudreau is deeply committed to Manteno. The social studies teacher is also a Manteno village trustee.
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In her first year teaching fifth grade students in Grant Park, Tracy Hood is making a difference.
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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.
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In 2005, Carol Cademartori’s life came full circle in her hometown of Grant Park.