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Math teachers launch sites, foundation to offer lessons, grants and scholarships

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Free lessons, grants and scholarships aim to improve math outcomes...

‘Oh, I can do this!’

Lowell Beth Heinen Bell

Experimenting with different types of drawing techniques gives these Lowell Middle School students confidence in their ability to create...

Imagining future careers, inspired to keep learning

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark

In honor of Reading Month, Godfrey Elementary invited community members to read books to students and share information about their careers...

’Michigan Chillers’ author visits Pine Island

Comstock Park Karen Gentry

Students meet Michigan author and compete for most minutes read during Reading Month...

Exploring digital skills through pop art, animation and a family journal

Comstock Park Karen Gentry

Animation and other projects introduce middle schoolers to coding and the Google platform...

Mr. Blue Sky is living here today, one might infer

Rockford Beth Heinen Bell

Inferring is when you use your background knowledge to gather new evidence from the text, and then use that all to find the meaning of what you’re reading, Meadow Ridge second-graders learned...

A Pi Day lesson they could sink their teeth into

East Grand Rapids Phil de Haan

Students in Laura Woolford’s sixth-grade class at East Grand Rapids Middle School got to measure, then eat in celebration...

Young artists’ affirmation: ‘black is powerful’

Grand Rapids Alexis Stark

A collaboration between WMCAT and Meijer showcases student art and provides an opportunity for connecting with the community...

Building a better backpack rack

Kent ISD Morgan Jarema

A nearly decade-long partnership with Kent ISD gives GVSU students the chance to improve the daily lives of those with disabilities...

How can I keep from singing?

Sparta Abigail Ham, SNN intern

At Sparta Middle School and High School, new hire Bob Alonzo is building a thriving vocal music program from the ground up...

Creating little legends by letting littles create

Project STEM Alexis Stark

The area, funded in part by a grant from the district’s education foundation, is aimed at building motor skills, inspiring exploration...

A sound investment in reading comprehension

Lowell Beth Heinen Bell

The features 'help you understand what you’re reading about,' these third-graders explain...

Opening doors to science

Project STEM Erin Albanese

No more memorizing terms and moving on. Students must explore the 'why?' and 'how?'...

Fears imagined, realized, shared and sometimes faced

Northview Morgan Jarema

Art teacher September Buys invited her seventh- and eighth-graders to ask themselves questions famous artists ask themselves, to visualize their answers and then to create them...

From five-minute sketches to frightful creatures

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark

Godfrey-Lee art teacher Rosanne Steffens’ third-graders drew five-minute monster sketches; her high school Advanced Drawing students then reimagined them into terrifying monsters...

It’s all hands-on in chemistry

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

The approach is in its second year as a national pilot...

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