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Inside Laurel Copeland’s Little Spartans Early Learning Program classroom, play-based learning is a key function of daily curriculum for the preschool children, some as young as 3.
Thank You, Teachers
A tribute to education's local heroes
Daily Chronicle/Shaw Local News Network
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Former Rockford Public Schools teacher and administrator, Treveda Redmond, of DeKalb, has blazed a career pathway for herself from teacher to principal at Huntley Middle School in DeKalb.
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In her 20th year of teaching, Littlejohn Elementary School special education teacher Mary Lynn Buckner knows all too well that there remains a long way to go in the fight for disability rights and awareness in this country.
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Read letters submitted by students and parents to the Daily Chronicle for our 2023 Thank You Teachers special edition
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In his first year running Sycamore High School’s Spartan TV program, students of English teacher Gregory D’Addario say he’s had a positive influence on them as they learn about multimedia storytelling in front of and behind the camera.
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These days, fourth grade is a bit more high-tech than it used to be. Especially if you’re in Jake Winters’ class at South Prairie Elementary School in Sycamore, where students plot polygons onto paper using small robot and introductory coding software.
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At first, the whole situation was very surreal. But as year two is wrapping up for Griffin McNeal, he’s gotten much more used to coaching and teaching where he was a student and an athlete barely eight years ago at Genoa-Kingston School District 424.
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Not that it happens a lot, but Sycamore football coach Joe Ryan has seen teams show up at Engh Community Field surprised that the field isn’t turf. It’s a testament, he said, to how well the crew that works on the field keeps not just the main football field but all the fields.
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After exploring other career paths early on in her life, Donna Werderich has found her footing as an educator and most recently as a professor at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb.
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DeKalb High School humanities teacher Greg Solomon was recently surprised with the 2023 Wirtz Award for Excellence in Education during one of his speech classes in April.
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Kishwaukee College’s workforce and community education department has partnered with DeKalb-based Sundog IT for the college’s internship program.