Rockford — It’s been more than 25 years since Superintendent Steve Matthews was a classroom teacher, but you wouldn’t know it from the way he jumped right back into the fray while filling in recently for fourth-grade teacher Kelly Bantle-Miller at Crestwood Elementary.
As part of a new fundraising effort for the Rockford Education Foundation, Matthews is stepping back into the classroom once a month to sub for a teacher, getting face-to-face time with students and giving teachers some extra time off.
‘To get to know students and interact with them for a full day is a lot of fun.’…