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Learning to Love Reading

Cedar Springs School News Network
After the school day ends, second-graders at Beach Elementary are still at work to become masters of the alphabet. In "super switch" groups based on...

Mind Sports Roundup

Forest Hills School News Network
Editor's note: Academic competition season is upon us! Each week School News Network will be running roundups of events including Odyssey of the Mind,...

Young Authors Learn from Published Ones — and Each Other

Cedar Springs School News Network
A room full of authors gathered at Cedar Springs Middle School. One was a guest speaker, author David Stricklen, and the rest were seventh-graders. Students...

Providing Creature Comforts, on Their Own

Kent City School News Network
Leopard geckos, degus, a sand boa, fishes and a painted turtle all call Steve McClintock's science classroom home. In the morning before the bell rings,...

‘We Wanted to Thank Them’

Northview School News Network
Frank Budnick remembers the shock after stepping off his ship in Seattle. A few months after being in Yokohama Harbor to witness the Japanese surrender...

Lab Brings Farming, Ecology Lessons to Students

Sparta School News Network
Crowded inside a mobile science lab outside Appleview Elementary, fourth-graders discovered how farmers use science to maintain clean water. Dropping purple food coloring from a...

And the Wheels on the Bus are Children’s Feet

Grand Rapids School News Network
Tyonna Jackson ordinarily enjoys the four-block walk to school, but there was one brutal day this winter when riding a bus would have come...

Building a Dream Into Reality

Classrooms for All School News Network
I see the horror figures portrayed in the media. I flinch and glower at the images of helpless people, abandoned and alone, drowning in...

‘They Learn by Music’

Empowering Abilities School News Network
A drum beat echoes down the halls of Sparta's Appleview Elementary. The source: a boisterous bunch of musicians keeping a beat and dancing to the...

ASL Helps Students ‘See From a Global Perspective’

Forest Hills School News Network
Gabe Vogt has no problem honing his sign language skills. It's the ideal way, he said, to communicate with his older brother, Aden, who...

For Stressed Students, a Pooch Can be Calming

Rockford School News Network
It's probably one of the last places you would expect to see man's best friend, but Kim Heys thinks it could be the wave...

‘No Sense Keeping Knowledge to Yourself’

Forest Hills School News Network
Vishnu Mano was selling homemade lemonade at home over the summer when a better way of doing business dawned on him. The Knapp Forest Elementary...

Math as Discovery, Exploration

Kent City School News Network
Gathered on the floor around teacher Karen Swanson, her third-graders were not looking down at a worksheet or a pop quiz, but up. They...

Martial Arts Champ Fights Back Against Bullying

Kenowa Hills School News Network
Olivia Allen believes there's nothing more valuable than firsthand knowledge. So when the president of the Kenowa Hills anti-bullying club, Knights Lights, listened to Mariah...

Bowls Full of Giving

Sparta School News Network
Second-grader Noah Leija stood at the countertop with a utensil in his hand, eyeing a smooth, round slab of clay. A student next to...

Finding True North

All Districts School News Network
Brandi Pilcher knew she was going in the wrong direction, but didn't know how to change course. That is, until she found her north...
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