RB4L Spotlight: Facing Teaching Like a Student-Athlete

"Jill [Hutchison] used to always say to us that the sun's going to come up tomorrow. We're going to get back to work, and we're going to fix what we can fix," said Ellen McGrew. "I used to hate when she said that after a loss, but it's something that has definitely stuck with me after all these years."

As an Illinois State women's basketball player from 1984-1989, McGrew never would have imagined that lessons learned from her former head coach Jill Hutchison and teammates would serve her well as she faces teaching during a world-wide pandemic. McGrew, a special education high school and middle school P.E. (physical education) and health teacher, works for Columbus City Schools in Columbus,…