Linda Odette
Linda Odette is a freelance writer and editor with more than 30 years of experience in journalism. She’s worked primarily as an editor in feature departments at newspapers in West Michigan, including the Grand Rapids Press, the Muskegon Chronicle and the Holland Sentinel. She lives in East Grand Rapids near the Eastown edge, has a teenage son and a daughter in college.
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Students celebrate black history, diversity through arts
Uplifting poems, skits, dances and music were all part of the eighth annual Black History Diversity Celebration Feb. 13 in the East Kentwood High School auditorium...
Lincoln Developmental Center renovations showcased
Area education leaders recently got a look at renovations at Lincoln Developmental Center, 862 Crahen Road NE...
Community leaders keeping students safe
Checking out fire trucks and getting to sit in the driver’s seat of a police SUV is exciting for first graders -- and it’s also a perfect way to teach them about safety...
Students tour world of manufacturing
Touring several local plants, students learned manufacturing isn’t what it used to be...
Museum School takes next step of innovation — into high school
An Aug. 15 ribbon-cutting ceremony marked the official opening of the school, created from the former Grand Rapids Public Museum at 54 Jefferson Ave. SE...
Outdoor ‘classroom’ experience equips area teachers with hands-on projects
What once was a golf course became a classroom for area teachers the first week of August. The instructors were taking part in Groundswell’s Summer Institute at Blandford Nature Center, which is restoring the former Highlands golf course...
Students, business sponsors, honor veterans with series of ceremonies and activities
The event honored veterans across West Michigan and helped students see them and their service as more than a sound bite...
Release the salmon!
The Salmon in the Classroom program teaches students about the life history of fish, natural resources conservation and the importance of the Great Lakes and fishing to Michigan culture...
Looking for career ideas? You’ve come to the right place
Students from several West Michigan school districts attended the event, where representatives from area health, construction, manufacturing and information technology businesses featured career choices...
Zoo visit by students for students
Some 125 Stoney Creek Elementary kindergartners toured John Ball Zoo and were led by zoo school students
Students’ fairy tale figures live wax-ily ever after
More than 100 Knapp Forest Elementary second-graders became “frozen” wax characters who occupied displays in the school’s classrooms and hallways to recite stories they had written
Odyssey into a land of duct-taped students and super glue
Students spend weeks or months preparing for the Michigan State Odyssey of the Mind finals held mid-March at Thornapple Kellogg Schools. They use imagination and brain power to create performance skits that fit various themes
Blended online, in-class MySchool@Kent program expanded to middle school
The MySchool@Kent program, previously just for high school students, gets a test run at the middle school level
Wyoming, EGR and TK superintendents announce retirements
Tom Reeder, superintendent of Wyoming Public Schools, and Sara Shubel, superintendent of East Grand Rapids Public Schools, announced their retirements last week, after Tom Enslen of Thornapple Kellogg announced his last month
Students take action, lend voices to honor Florida school victims and plead for violence...
The number 17 served as a marker not only for moments of silence in honor of those killed, but for students’ thoughts on how to make schools safer and kinder
Who Swiped the iPad? Let’s Use Science to Find Out
Finding out who left peanut butter residue on an iPad: This is science? Yes it is, STEM-style, at an educational event for middle schoolers
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Students celebrate black history, diversity through arts
Uplifting poems, skits, dances and music were all part of the eighth annual Black History Diversity Celebration Feb. 13 in the East Kentwood High School auditorium...
Lincoln Developmental Center renovations showcased
Area education leaders recently got a look at renovations at Lincoln Developmental Center, 862 Crahen Road NE...
Community leaders keeping students safe
Checking out fire trucks and getting to sit in the driver’s seat of a police SUV is exciting for first graders -- and it’s also a perfect way to teach them about safety...
Sponsorship
