In 2005, Judy Zubak was an at-home mom with a daughter in kindergarten at Serena Hills School in Chicago Heights. She would go in once a week as a PTO volunteer to help with ice cream treats.
Then Principal Lynn Westerlund suggested Zubak fill a part-time position as a paraprofessional at Serena.
“I would have never thought about school,” Zubak said, but she found working with special education students was easy. She is…
