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Middle-school multitasking: exploring career pathways during lunch

Kelloggsville Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

The goal of these lunch talks is to help students think about possible careers as they plan for their next steps after high school.

Pilot class helps students navigate college, early careers

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark

Lee High School’s pilot career and college preparation class, in partnership with the Michigan Hispanic Collaborative, is helping students forge futures that include furthering education.

Teachers knock over barriers by embedding literacy into science

Comstock Park Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Through science, Stoney Creek elementary skills are building vocabulary and grammar skills.

Nonprofit puts free books in hands of elementary students

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

A local nonprofit recently brought new books to Alpine Elementary and gave copies to students to encourage literacy and a love of reading.

Career unit helps prepare students for ‘life’s next step’

Northview Beth Heinen Bell

A unit on career exploration got these sixth-graders thinking about the future and how today’s classes are relevant.

Students showcase talent & skill during ‘Musical Madness’

Kelloggsville Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

From individual scale competitions to team “Jeopardy,” students demonstrated their musical knowledge while learning to work as a team.

If their teacher can be an author, so can they

Byron Center Alexis Stark

Third-grade teacher and author Erica Abel encourages students to read, write and not let anyone ‘dull their diamonds.’

Opening career pathways through work-based learning

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

The third in our series of articles about CareerPrep 2030, a Kent ISD initiative to expand offerings and boost student enrollment in career and technical education over the next five years.

Business, college and K-12 leaders come together to boost student literacy

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

TalentFirst partners with West Michigan K-12 and teaching-college leaders to work together to solve an early literacy crisis.

Middle-school artists add ‘squish’ to second-grade designs

Northview Beth Heinen Bell

When middle-school and second-grade artists join forces, anything’s possible. Even “Squishmallows.”

One Book, One City program culminates with visit from author

Grand Rapids Riley Kelley

To cap off the One Book, One City reading program, Author Varian Johnson spoke to GRPS fifth-graders about his book, ‘Playing the Cards You’re Dealt.’

Pi Day slices fun with math

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell

What is irrational, contains more than 200 trillion digits, and shares a special day with Steph Curry’s birthday? A middle school math teacher would be happy to teach you

Old McDonald had a math lesson

Caledonia Alexis Stark

Old McDonald’s farm animals helped kindergartners learn addition, reading comprehension and how food comes from farms to markets.

Middle school library turned into STEM makerspace

Sparta Riley Kelley

Students are turning the former Sparta Middle School library into a STEM makerspace.

Who can fix the ship? Ask the octopus!

Wyoming Erin Albanese

The study of sea creatures has Oriole Park Elementary students learning many facts about animals, from anemone to zebrafish.

Class project goes from ‘aqua-what?’ to aquaponics

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Zinser Elementary fifth-graders spent the past few months growing plants and their knowledge of how hydroponic and aquaponic growing systems work together to sustain life.

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