REGIONAL OFFICE OF EDUCATION 9

Now 16 years into her tenure at Campus Cooperative Preschool in Urbana, Haruyo Gonzalez has a phrase that guides her when she teaches art, one of her main responsibilities as a le...

After 30 years in the Mahomet-Seymour School District, Lincoln Trail Elementary School fifth-grade teacher Sandy Prather will retire at the end of the school year. The Danville na...

CHAMPAIGN — Centennial High School senior Nailah Mansury will be heading to Washington, D.C., this summer. The trip won’t be for sight-seeing. She will receive a Congressional Aw...

In her five years teaching third grade at Rantoul’s Pleasant Acres Elementary School, Delores Lloyd has provided value to both her co-workers and students. Lloyd “works really ha...

Since 2021, WIU has partnered with over 180 schools across the state to add qualified teachers to the workforce. Our program provides an alternative pathway to the Professional Ed...

Two Centennial Chargers, a pair of Urbana Tigers and one Central Maroon will share the spotlight on April 11 at the I Hotel and Conference Center, when the Champaign Urbana School...

Welcome to Year 9 of High School Confidential, powered by Danville Area Community College. It's an award-winning project made possible by aspiring student journalists from every c...

URBANA — The Urbana school district didn’t have to look far to fill its two upcoming administrative openings. At this week’s meeting, the school board signed off on the promotion...

In just her second year at South Side Elementary School, Lindsay Yeakel is relatively new to teaching in an elementary school setting. She isn’t new to working with children, thou...

For Serita Palmer, teaching is more than a profession — it’s a way to contribute to the community she grew up in. The Champaign Central graduate, who attended Robeson Elementary ...

Long before she landed the job title for real, SAM TURNER got a nibble of what life was like in the principal’s office at an elementary school. “When I was in fifth grade, my a...

Two years ago, Josh McQuaid decided to make a career change. For a decade, he was a full-time chef, most of which he spent working for Hendrick House on the University of Illinois...

CHAMPAIGN — A Centennial sophomore’s inspiring effort to have a Champaign street named in his late cousin’s honor received the full blessing of the city council Tuesday night. By...

Lori Miller has spent the last 31 years at Gifford Grade School turning her students into lifelong readers. The Rantoul native still lives in her home community and teaches at ne...

Ryley Edmonson knows that, for her students, incremental improvements that others may consider mundane are important accomplishments. Edmonson leads STAR programming for students ...

In her eighth year at J.W. Eater Junior High in Rantoul, Jessica Kocanda is doing the only job she ever wanted to do. The University of Illinois graduate, who teaches sixth-grade ...

Add creativity and mix in a healthy dose of high energy, and you have Allison O’Hern. “Teaching allows me to be really creative,” the Teacher ACE Award winner said from her class...

Email nominations to Anthony Zilis at azilis@news-gazette.com In her third year as Prairieview-Ogden South Elementary’s reading and math interventionist, Tressica Jeffer...

1. Right after the pandemic, Mahomet-Seymour’s freshmen-on-the-right-track rating fell from 94.2 percent to 88.1 percent, activating a plan of action. “In response to this, we b...

Friday’s 2nd Annual Hoot ‘n Scoot Fun Run brought out the best in the kids at Dr. Howard Elementary in Champaign. The principal, too. “Most of (the students) remember our event f...