Teacher of the Week

Teachers have an enormous impact on our children, for one Rockford family, that impact meant absolutely everything.

The moment a student falls in love with learning is the moment their lives become limitless. Getting them to that point is no easy task for a teacher.

Can you imagine deciding to become a teacher and when your first opportunity arrives everything about the profession is turned upside down?

Getting young people to love reading can often be one of the most difficult tasks for teachers and parents.

Exhaustion doesn't come close to describing how thousands of teachers feel, yet they still 'show up' in pretty amazing ways. We all should be this grateful.

These young students have very little memory, if any, of a time that masks weren't worn everyday. They also haven't spent much time playing with other kids.

There are some teachers that light up the school day for students.