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Galesburg Reading Teacher Wins State Award
A Galesburg School District teacher is receiving a statewide award, for her involvement in a district program an administrator says he wishes there were more of in the country.

District-205 Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction Joel Estes says King Elementary Teacher Allyson Vaynerman is the Illinois Reading Educator of the Year in the Reading Specialist category, as awarded by the Illinois Reading Council.

Estes tells WGIL he wrote a letter in support of Vaynerman's nomination that said, in his eyes, she is deserving of the award. "(Vaynerman) was with us in the Reading Recovery Program since we started it five years ago," Estes said. "She's really been one of the people that drives the rest of us to do the very best that we can in that program. She's a real advocate for Reading Recovery, and has gotten her specialist degree in reading. She's a very committed educator -- committed to every single child that she works with."

The Reading Recovery Program works with first graders struggling in reading, providing them one-on-one tutoring in hopes that at least 75-percent of them back up to their grade level by the end of that first grade year.

Estes says one of the things that stands out in his mind about Vaynerman is that she really had to, in his words, reinvent herself as a teacher in order to work with Reading Recovery.

Vaynerman will be recognized at a conference in Springfield in late-March.
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