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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.

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.

Kent ISD School Board to select Grandville board member

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
After the Grandville Board of Education was unable to fill a vacant seat within 30 days, the decision has moved to the intermediate school district.

Dedication & drive, in the dojo and beyond 

Northview Beth Heinen Bell
This seventh-grader is working toward her black belt in karate, an accomplishment that signifies an elite level of proficiency and mastery.

Future CFO on next step: ‘an actual dream come true’

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
Throughout his many moves, a constant in Miguel’s life has been his desire to become “a successful businessman.” But that’s not the only goal he’s set for himself.

Science lab makes metabolic sleuths of middle-schoolers  

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell
A fat-burning demo at Kent City Middle School gets students asking questions and learning more about how their own bodies work. 

He forecasts snow days with increasing accuracy

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell
Aspiring meteorologist Fernando Diaz-Guzman cares about keeping people safe and sees accurate weather forecasting as a way to do so.

Elementary math workshop ‘action packed’

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell
A new approach to math instruction this year at West Elementary School breaks lessons into smaller, bite-size pieces. 

Many hands put fine motor skills to work 

Northview Beth Heinen Bell
DK and kindergarten teachers at West Oakview recently received new sets of fine motor tubs, full of sticky cubes, felt shapes and other hands-on manipulatives, thanks to a grant from the Northview Education Foundation.
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