Tracy Thrasher is beginning her 16th year of teaching.  She has taught for the last 12 years in Springfield Public Schools.  This is her fourth year of teaching at Salem.

Mrs. Thrasher graduated from Pleasant Plains school in 1998 and Illinois College in 2002.  She married Tim Thrasher and resides in South Jacksonville with their twin boys, Evan and Owen, that are in 3rd grade at Salem Lutheran School.