
December 5, 2024
Ryley Edmonson knows that, for her students, incremental improvements that others may consider mundane are important accomplishments. Edmonson leads STAR programming for students ...

December 4, 2024
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 ...

December 2, 2024
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...

November 26, 2024
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...

November 18, 2024
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...

November 12, 2024
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...

November 11, 2024
CHAMPAIGN — The Centennial High School archery team is creating a “field of flags” on the lawn of Centennial High School beginning at 2 p.m. Sunday to commemorate Veterans Day. T...

November 11, 2024
A number of area schools will honor military veterans at Veterans Day services. Unless otherwise noted, all events will be held Monday. Click the link to read the full article: ...

October 30, 2024
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October 25, 2024
CHAMPAIGN — Mahomet-Seymour will join many other area bands Saturday when it competes in the Illinois Marching Band Championships at the University of Illinois’ Memorial Stadium. ...

October 24, 2024
When he came to Champaign 31 years ago, Peoria native Greg Stock had a hard time choosing which high school to teach at. So he chose based on the little he knew: Centennial had ai...

October 24, 2024
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...

October 16, 2024
On Wednesdays, we’ll introduce the students who make up Year 9 of High School Confidential, powered by Danville Area Community College. Today: Uni’s Ivy Pullen-Heuman. Uni High i...

October 10, 2024
When Mariel Middlebrook was in college, she worked at Oddfiellows Playhouse in Middletown, Conn., teaching in an after-school program and running a mentoring program. It was there...

October 10, 2024
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...

October 10, 2024
heers to 100 years of Champaign's SOUTH SIDE ELEMENTARY , where students and staffers clad in matching blue shirts kicked off the centennial celebration Wednesday by posing for p...

October 9, 2024
The first time she participated in Fisher’s homecoming parade, Kim Clemmons (Class of 1983) was part of the marching band and “our ugly uniforms.” Wednesday’s trip around town wa...

October 9, 2024
On Wednesdays, we’ll introduce the students who make up Year 9 of High School Confidential, powered by Danville Area Community College. Today: Unity’s Avery Watson. We knew the d...

October 4, 2024
URBANA — Crisis Nursery shouldn’t run out of diapers for a while. A diaper drive sponsored by The High School of Saint Thomas More garnered a donation of almost 19,000 diapers fo...

October 4, 2024
Amy Jenkins-Costa has spent most of her career teaching kids how to read. Since 1997, she’s worked mostly as a reading interventionist in the Chamap[Champaign school district, fir...