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.

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.

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.

Herscher High School teacher Rebecca Williams loves mathematics

Allan Wills keeps a busy schedule at Gardner-South Wilmington, both as a math teacher and through his involvement in multiple sports and extracurriculars.

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.

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.

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