Fourth graders from across city cross lines with pictures on ‘Flexible Fence’
A collaboration of GRPS, artist Eliza Fernand, ArtPrize and PNC Bank, the 6-foot-high 'Flexible Fence' features more than 1,000 pictures by fourth graders from 26 schools...
A stroll through the city means a walk through art
The area’s youngest students discovered art in the city during a morning event offered by Project 1, by ArtPrize...
Thanks to dedicated artists, city snowplows will be hard to miss
Over the past couple weeks, art teachers led third and fourth graders from all three elementary schools in decorating a trio of city snowplow blades...
SmartArt competition winner finds inspiration in art, science classes
C.A. Frost Environmental Science Academy junior Cindy Mazariegos-Barrios was so sure she wasn't going to win the 2019 SmartArt competition, she forgot to mention the big event where they announced the winner to her parents. Oops...
Not one, but two local high school bands to play Detroit Jazz Fest
The pair of West Michigan jazz bands will be two of just six high school ensembles to play at the internationally renowned four-day festival, in its 40th year...
Heavy-metal ready
Fourteen students, including several women, graduated from the first cohort of Metallica Scholars, an eight-week welding course...
Upping the equity quotient in math
Leading Educators involves about 50 educators in Godwin Heights, Wyoming, Godfrey-Lee, Kentwood and Grand Rapids Public Schools who have signed on for a two-year commitment...
Listening to stories: not just for elementary kids
Read-alouds are pretty much a daily standard in elementary schools. But in middle school? Not as much. SNN visited classrooms in two districts where students are all ears for them...
KDL Kid Picks: Caleb Black
Caleb Black from Crestwood Elementary School in Rockford reviews ‘The Animal Book’ by David Burnie...
KDL Kid Picks: Ella Black
Ella Black from Crestwood Elementary School in Rockford reviews ‘Geronimo Stilton’ by Edizioni Piemme...
Students learn skills the fun way: making music
A group of Alto Elementary students took part in 10 one-hour sessions with a music therapist at the Franciscan Life Process Center, thanks to a grant from the Lowell Education Foundation...
KDL Kid Picks: Aubree Black
KDL Kids Book Club Reader Aubree Black, 10, shares thoughts on 'Wayside School' by Louis Sachar...
Young actor headed to Big Apple stage
Eric Liu qualified for a national musical theater competition by being named Best Leading Actor in the state of Michigan at the Sutton Foster Ovation Awards at the Wharton Center in East Lansing...
A boon for books
A $30,000 challenge grant from the Guido A. and Elizabeth H. Binda Foundation funded the new books. The foundation put up $15,000 and the district raised an additional $15,000, thanks to several anonymous donors...
‘From absolutely nothing to this full production’
It was three months before the spring play. There was no script and no plot, just the shadow of personalities students would soon embody as their own creations...
GRCC to host summer camp with musicians who mash classical, popular genres
ESME band members are challenging middle and high school students to blend modern and classical music during intensive summer experience...
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