August 18, 2023
The College of Education at the University of Illinois Urbana - Champaign, in partnership with Experience Champaign-Urbana and Community Choices, has launched a new online directo...
August 17, 2023
Kara Allison moved to Mahomet in 1990, when she was in the seventh grade. Thirty-three years later, the third-grade teacher at Lincoln Trail Elementary School still calls it home....
August 10, 2023
Become a Google certified educator to sharpen your use of technology to enhance instruction and demonstrate your proficiency. In this Month's Tech Tip video Eric Santos will explai...
August 10, 2023
After graduating from the University of Illinois in 2003 with a degree in political science, Farhanah Faruque began a career in education policy research. Working behind a desk, t...
August 9, 2023
MAHOMET — Ava Boyd was, admittedly, a bit tired when she pulled into her house on July 31.
A 2:30 a.m. wakeup and subsequent two-hour car ride from Eugene, Ore., to the Portlan...
August 8, 2023
URBANA — What do robotics, public speaking, filmmaking and dancing with Beyoncé’s choreographer have in common?
They’re all things students in the NAACP Afro-Academic, Cultural...
August 8, 2023
RANTOUL — One three-letter acronym (AT&T) will give way to another (RCS) on the front of a building on the former Chanute Air Force Base airport grounds.
Construction is underw...
August 7, 2023
After graduating from Illinois State University, Champaign native Katie Lessaris traveled the world, teaching in International Baccalaureate schools in Sweden, the Netherlands and...
August 1, 2023
Dave Hinton CHAMPAIGN — Countless former Champaign schoolchildren know Carlyle Johnson as the instrumental music teacher from their formative years.
An older generation has a...
July 27, 2023
Growing up, Nicola Grohler enjoyed helping her mother in her special-education class in Sullivan. After graduating from Sullivan High School, though, Grohler decided to go a diffe...
July 21, 2023
Growing up in a military family, Serra Nicolette moved constantly, spending time living in Alabama, Arizona, Texas and Illinois, along with six years in Germany. When she went to ...
July 19, 2023
(The Hill ) – Panic has turned to preparation for professors and teachers as they look ahead to a new school year dealing with artificial intelligence.
Educators have had sever...
July 6, 2023
After attending the University of Illinois on a suggestion from her high school orchestra conductor, Jackie Martin thought she would become a music teacher. She quickly changed co...
July 3, 2023
The new online education licensure program will allow college graduates to earn a teaching license. The program can be completed in approximately 12 months for secondary educat...
July 1, 2023
On June 29, 2023, Governor Pritzker signed SB 2390 (now PA-103-0111 ) into law. It is effective immediately. The law provides an extension for the Short-Term substitute teacher ap...
June 23, 2023
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) — A new law signed by Governor J.B. Pritzker earlier this month is trying to curb bullying at Illinois schools.
One part of the law requires schools to...
June 23, 2023
CARBONDALE — Southern Illinois University Carbondale is launching a new online undergraduate program in elementary education this fall for working professionals, as part of its ef...
June 23, 2023
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WAND) — Illinois lawmakers passed a plan this spring to create a statewide literacy plan to help young people become proficient readers. That proposal arrived o...
June 6, 2023
St. John Lutheran School and Little Lamb Preschool in Champaign are seeking a Middle School Math/Science Teacher, Classroom Aides, and After School Care Assistants for the 2023-2...