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Kathy Bouchard
Teacher of the Month
By Crystal Patriache
If you ask Kathy Bouchard of Peoria, Ill., about her accomplishments as a teacher, she does not talk about teaching awards, certificates, her most shining moments or anything she has done. Instead, she talks of her students and says every single one of her students is an accomplishment themselves.
"Each one has presented me with some sort of learning experience as a teacher," says Bouchard, a seventh and eighth grade teacher at Mark Bills Middle School in Peoria. "Allowing them to teach me and push me as a teacher is an accomplishment." Bouchard has been a teacher for nine years, seven of those spent at Mark Bills Middle School teaching Language Arts, Literature and Spanish.
According to principal Robert Bethel, Bouchard has many strengths that make her a tremendous asset to the school and she has consistently done more than her fair share in contributing to their overall learning community.
Bethel is not shy in boasting all of Bouchard's activities: school improvement planning committee, strategic planning committee, director of gifted education, teacher liaison for the parent/teacher club, systems operator and webmaster for the school's computer lab, coordinator of the district's young authors program. Bouchard also designed a sixth grade multicultural night that showcased a seven-week student research project that was extremely successful.
"She also is one of my acting principals, further demonstrating that she possesses strong leadership skills," says Bethel. "Kathy consistently demonstrates a high degree of cooperation, support and professionalism to the students, parents and teachers of our school. It is easy to see that she is a valuable asset to our school and to our district."
