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Beth Heinen Bell

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Beth Heinen Bell is associate editor, copy editor and reporter covering Northview, Kent City and Grandville. She is an award-winning journalist who got her professional start as the education reporter for the Grand Haven Tribune. A Calvin University graduate and proud former Chimes editor, she later returned to Calvin to help manage its national writing festival. Beth has also written for The Grand Rapids Press and several West Michigan businesses and nonprofits. She is fascinated by the nuances of language, loves to travel and has strong feelings about the Oxford comma.

High-schoolers, second-graders team up for book project on digestive system 

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell
There’s plenty to learn about the digestive system — and after partnering to write and illustrate children’s books about the body, these Kent City high-schoolers and second-graders are likely to remember all of it. 

Are you feeling the effects of political polarization at your school?

All Districts Beth Heinen Bell
Do high-schoolers feel today’s political tensions in their everyday lives? Is an underlying climate of divisiveness affecting their school experiences at all?

What’s in a name? Podcast explores nuances of America

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
America (the girl) sits down to talk about what makes America (the country) both beautiful and complicated.

Bond passes in Northview, several districts approve operating millages

Multi Districts Beth Heinen Bell
Voters on Tuesday showed up for their public schools, approving multiple districts’ non-homestead operating millages and a bond request from Northview Public Schools. 

High-schoolers: Do you feel safe at school?

All Districts Beth Heinen Bell
Do today’s high-schoolers feel safe in school? Is that possible in this era of regular headline-making acts of violence in school settings? 

‘Uniquely talented’ a cappella ensemble finds the right beat

Northview Beth Heinen Bell
What is From the Top? “A bunch of music nerds in a room, just jamming out together and bringing that energy.” Get to know this high school a cappella ensemble.

$74.6 million bond proposal would fund improvements, additions district-wide

Northview Beth Heinen Bell
Approval of the bond, which comes with no expected tax rate increase, will allow the district to update learning spaces for today’s needs and address facility issues while protecting its general fund for instructional use.

Mentors lead recess with sportsmanship, respect and high school-level spinning and swinging

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell
High-school recess mentors are making a big difference for fourth-graders at Kent City Elementary School, both socially and emotionally.

Fifth-grade anatomy lesson: dissecting ‘like a real scientist’

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
Never mind the fishy smell at Oakestown Intermediate; it just means fifth-graders are getting an up-close lesson on anatomy from some spiny dogfish sharks. 

Career unit helps prepare students for ‘life’s next step’

Northview Beth Heinen Bell
A unit on career exploration got these sixth-graders thinking about the future and how today’s classes are relevant. 

Meet your future real estate agent, archaeologist & civil engineer

Northview Beth Heinen Bell
We spoke to three sixth-graders toward the end of a career unit to see what dreams they have for their future, and how this unit may have helped shed light on those ideas. 

Civil rights activist visits high school

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
History came to life last week as a civil rights activist visited Grandville High School.

Middle-school artists add ‘squish’ to second-grade designs

Northview Beth Heinen Bell
When middle-school and second-grade artists join forces, anything’s possible. Even “Squishmallows.”

Pi Day slices fun with math

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell
What is irrational, contains more than 200 trillion digits, and shares a special day with Steph Curry’s birthday? A middle school math teacher would be happy to teach you

Professor to join Grandville board after ISD decision

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
GVSU professor Amy Campbell will be the next member of the Grandville Public Schools Board of Education after a unanimous vote by the Kent ISD School Board Monday evening.

A sense of belonging after school, one pickler at a time

Northview Beth Heinen Bell
At Highlands, middle-schoolers are learning new skills in a pickleball class that’s part of Northview’s BASE (Belonging and After-School Engagement) programming.
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