Article: Career shape-up North Central student chooses to pursue teaching later in life.(Neighbor)

Byline: Kari Hartman Daily Herald Staff Writer

Leon Pedraza blows the whistle in Welch Elementary School's physical education classes like he's done it for years.

You'd never know he's just a student teacher.

Maybe Pedraza seems familiar with the Naperville school because he visited Welch weeks before his student teaching experience started. Maybe he fits his role because he's got a lot of energy and is really into physical education.

Or maybe he seems like a veteran educator because he's not a new, jittery 21-year-old student teacher.

Pedraza is 50, with decades of life and job experiences behind him. Now the North Central ...

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