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For many students in the Transition Program, paraprofessionals Dahlquist and Harding provide the final measures of support before the students set out on their own.
Thank You, Teachers
A tribute to education's local heroes
Kane County Chronicle/Shaw Local News Network
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Unlike K-12 classroom teachers, LaTart also works with a wide age-range of students, and he doesn’t like to use age as a metric for responsibility.
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Cailla Swanson is in her third year of teaching special ed at Geneva High School.
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Read thank you letters sent to teachers in Kane County from our readers and local students
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Chad Clarey became a teacher and a coach because teachers and coaches mentored him.
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St. Charles art program sees full-circle of art teachers, thanks to educators like Stephanie Dodd.
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Ivars Spalis started his teaching career as an English teacher, first as a substitute at Aurora West High School, then at the Kane County Juvenile Justice Center.
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Celebrating Neil Currie's legacy at St. Charles East: A beloved voice in local sports, and history teacher.
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Jamie Dunlap became a business teacher at Geneva High School because of a boring accounting instructor – and she took a circuitous road to get there.
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Pat Frederick is retiring as a Geneva High School band director this year after 29 years with District 304.
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After nearly 30 years of teaching seventh grade social studies, James Cook is retiring from Geneva Middle School North.
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Read our letters submitted by students and parents to the Kane County Chronicle for our 2023 Thank You Teachers special edition
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Corron Elementary School teachers Amanda Clabough and Abby Ortega know how language can be a barrier.
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Cindy Babich, who has been an English teacher in the Kaneland school district for about 10 years, will leave her classroom at Blackberry Creek Elementary School next fall for the new IgKnight Academy.
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Batavia High School English teacher Amber Jirsa was named the Illinois State Board of Education Teacher of the Year for the North Suburbs region and was in the running for 2023 Illinois Teacher of the Year.