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

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.  

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

After beginning her career in education as an aid in Bureau Valley for a few years, Tracey Schoff decided to further explore her interest and pursued a full-time teaching degree. This decision has now led to a 17-year career teaching kids in BV, just as she once was.

Digging into the individual student and finding out what motivates them or helps them grasp a lesson, continues to be a large part of what Delvallee does with each class she comes across.