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‘Together, we’re educating an awesome child’

Rockstar Teachers Jaye Beeler

“It’s very important that they enjoy being here. I’m trying to capture that first-day-of-school enthusiasm every day.” - Rockstar Teacher Brittany Brown

Tech Center’s 3D Autism Project a national finalist in Samsung ‘Solve for Tomorrow’ contest

Kent ISD Jaye Beeler

For months now, in a digital technology program at Kent Career Tech Center, nearly 40 high schoolers propel themselves into a real-world project in digital design, animation, graphics and game-making

Students Leave a Legacy to Last, in Clay

Grandville Jaye Beeler

By making hundreds of clay tiles utilizing form, line, shape and texture, high school students unleashed their creativity in creating a hallway mural

It Draws, It Spells, It Colors, at Touch of a Tablet

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler

Moving at lightning speed, second-grader Logan Shank beat his teammates Exley Roon and Emma Bowman to the Sphero, a miniature robotic orb, effectively becoming...

‘My Class is More Than What I Teach Them’

Grandville Jaye Beeler

At 7:45 a.m. daily, teacher Terry Blevins begins the day with his 30 audiovisual broadcasting students tooling about a warren of separate rooms stuffed...

Reading Law Adds Urgency to Literacy Summit

All Districts Jaye Beeler

As a National Public Radio education correspondent, Claudio Sanchez is used to asking the thorny questions and then questioning the answers. He spied an...

Star Fleet to Mission Control: Egg Incoming!

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler

At STARBASE Battle Creek, located on the Air National Guard Base, the four-girl team of Page Elementary fifth-graders knew the landing was a one-shot...

Poppa Belly Floppa Gives ‘That Special Love’

Grandville Jaye Beeler

At Central Elementary School, the spontaneity on the playground pings around grandparent Ernie Sandona, who’s at the center of the dance. His grandson, third-grader...

Librarians Ready to Share ‘Joy of Reading’

All Districts Jaye Beeler

Chelsea McCoy dives headfirst into imagination: wildly, enthusiastically, getting right on the floor with youngsters. It’s clear she wants to help them cultivate a...

‘We’re Living His Dream’

Godfrey-Lee Jaye Beeler

“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the...

Transcripts Should Tell More Complete Story, Leaders Say

Kent ISD Jaye Beeler

John Kraus thinks high school transcripts ought to show both a student's achievement in the classroom as well as learning that happened outside school...

Quoth the Rooster, ‘Some More’

Grandville Jaye Beeler

Four student collaborators in Sandra Bajema's language arts class performed an outlandish Edgar Allan Poe parody by vilifying a rooster: Students Chris Veldhuis and Aiden...

‘One Simple Thing Can Spread Kindness’

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler

The Thornapple River bustled through the Middleville dam as six high school students cleared brush, scraggly trees, a carpet of bristly grasses and unwanted...

Bride Selects Student-created Wedding Cakes for Reception

Kent ISD Jaye Beeler

It's not often students get to create the prettiest -- and surely the most romantic of all -- wedding cakes. Forty-five advanced baking-pastry students...

Typical Teen Stuff or Serious Mental Health Issue?

Youth Mental Health Jaye Beeler

For a while now, high school English teacher Sheri Gilreath-Watts has been teaching from Judith Guest's novel "Ordinary People," about a suicidal boy home...

The First Thanksgiving, Through the Eyes of Its Children

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler

In Michelle DeVries's first-grade class at McFall Elementary School, Lilee Grinnel and Braylee Tep inspected the Indian corncobs soaking in water –- which DeVries...

Positive energy as bright as spring sunshine

Big dreams propel TKHS senior to business school

Making learning ‘as local as we can’

Teacher’s mom makes positive impact in kindergarten classroom

Labs show how wind, water and ice shape the Earth

Growing the next generation of educators

Drawing her life to embolden others

The impact of a story

Amid youth mental health crisis, districts invest in new programs

Gun safety and mental-health services: it’s not an either-or to stop school shootings

Efficiency needed to get funds to schools, superintendents say

Newly configured preschool focuses on being inclusive

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