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A formula for teaching algebra

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Forget cramming study guide notes before a test...

An explorer, a tropical island, a pineapple

State of the Arts Erin Albanese

The state-wide contest is in its eighth year...

WMCAT students earn high honors in art competition

Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Twenty-one GRPS students won 80 awards for photography and ceramics in the 2020 Scholastic Art & Writing Awards regional competition...

Dance power: helping girls ’empower themselves and be themselves’

Rockford Charles Honey

EmpowHER ½ Hour meets once a week during recess to let young girls feel their strength through the joy of dance...

Math intervention aims to reach every student

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Different students may be in groups weekly, depending on what standards they have met...

New program aims to get students to graduation, expand career pathways

Career Exploration Morgan Jarema

Last year the program had 70 students. This year, after restructuring, the program has 135 and counting...

Musicians take on anything but classical

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Forty-four students become immersed each morning in music styles ranging from bluegrass to alternative rock in the Anything But Classical Orchestra...

New coordinator will be face of career-work experience effort

Career Exploration Morgan Jarema

Her role includes creating job opportunities, serving as a liaison with businesses and helping students hone skills employers want them to master...

Artist speaks out against hate in competition

Cedar Springs Cris Greer

Four art students won top honors out of 127 competitors at the third-annual Cedar Springs High School Art Competition...

Students supplement learning with ballet, clay creatures & Billie Holiday

Grand Rapids Phil de Haan

A grant-funded partnership between Brookside Elementary and the Salvation Army Kroc Center sees third, fourth and fifth grade students make a trek twice a week through their backyard for classes in ballet, clay and jazz...

Third graders learn to listen — with help from drums, other noisemakers

Comstock Park James Harger

Students from schools throughout West Michigan get introduced to the big world of percussion instruments through presentations by Bill Vits, principal percussionist for the Grand Rapids Symphony...

‘Doing art well is what matters’

Kent City Janice Holst

A young artist took home a national award and has pledged to put his winnings toward his family’s future home...

Turning the page toward equity

Kentwood Erin Albanese

An effort to increase diversity in books in the district has resulted in an allocation of $1,500 per teacher for new titles, and a continued priority to keep shelves stocked and current...

Creating a picture of community and kindness

Rockford Charles Honey

Students’ drawings were incorporated by artist Mary Bent-Buist into a mural expressing a moving message: 'One kind word can change someone’s entire story'...

Fourth graders from across city cross lines with pictures on ‘Flexible Fence’

Arts and Academics Charles Honey

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

Arts and Academics Erin Albanese

The area’s youngest students discovered art in the city during a morning event offered by Project 1, by ArtPrize...

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