The teacher licensure program for middle school mathematics is an innovative new track for nonmath majors interested in teaching mathematics in the middle grades 6–8, an area of high demand across ...

Katie Welch, a seventh-grade math teacher, was named West Central Regional Teacher of the Year by the Illinois State Board of Education. Welch is a finalist for teacher of the year in Illinois.

She currently teaches sixth grade math at Grass Lake Middle School. She attended Ann Arbor Public Schools in her elementary years, and fondly remembers her third grade teacher Elizabeth Robson for ...