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Dixon High School's choir and life skills classes joined forces early in the 2025 spring semester to create a new singing ensemble, Voices United, that includes students with disabilities who want to sing and perform.
Thank You, Teachers
A tribute to education's local heroes
Shaw Local News Network
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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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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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A former Lyons Township High School student and athlete considers herself lucky to teach at her alma mater
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St. Charles art program sees full-circle of art teachers, thanks to educators like Stephanie Dodd.
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Todd Kein has spent 26 years at Morris as an English teacher and baseball and basketball coach. He has found a "happy marriage" coaching baseball while teaching literature.
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The sport of swimming first brought Kyle and Jamie Ruiz together in third grade. The 2004 Sterling graduates, who reconnected through swimming after college and eventually got married, are still giving back today as teachers and coaches.
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DePue’s John Beatty, science teacher and coach for over 30 years, has found right track in education
In a career of more than 30 years, John Beatty has taught and coached in schools big and small. Through it all he's enjoyed the interactions with students and 'pushing them to be the best they can be in the classroom as well as on the athletic field."
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Ivan Cisneros Cabanas reflects on the last eight years using music and humor to teach Spanish at Olson Elementary in Woodstock,
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Nazareth Academy math teacher credits her father for inspiring career