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Tech-savvy sixth-graders take first place in IT competition
Computer programming, dancing & chicken nuggets fueled the winning team...
Longtime agriscience teacher earns honorary FFA degree
After 24 years of teaching, John Schut believes incorporating fun and service into education is more engaging for students than taking notes in a classroom...
Senior Scouts return to grade school, sprinkling kindness
Four former Dutton Elementary students are using their platform as Girl Scouts to inspire kindness in younger generations of Wildcats...
Major factor in school closings: evidence of virus spread
While the Kent County Health Department is working hard with superintendents to keep schools open, sometimes closing is the best way to mitigate spread...
Sensory splendor
Dutton teachers worked together to prepare lessons with creative twists to accomodate the needs of the kids while following the safety requirements for the 2020 back-to-school plan...
Two-stepper, avid reader owes career to her first-grade teacher
Jenn Shultz is the new Emmons Lake Elementary School principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet Your Administrators...
Foundation funds math curriculum, mental health coordinator
The Caledonia Education Foundation recently awarded the district a $75,000 grant to pay for a new math curriculum and to free up dollars to add a new position to serve students’ mental, social and emotional health needs...
Whole-child advocates ready to lead, collaborate
SNN gets to know these new elementary principals in this edition of Meet the Principal...
High school closes due to positive COVID-19 cases
Caledonia High School is closed for in-person instruction through Friday, Sept. 11, after five students and one staff member tested positive for COVID-19...
Students have choice of face-to-face, online learning
Teachers are being trained in using the Michigan Virtual platform for online instruction...
‘Farm to School’
Caledonia Schools passed out more than 1,300 boxes of produce to community members through the Farm to School Program...
Words to Live By
Students from the Be Nice Leadership team wrote and mailed more than 300 encouraging postcards to the entire freshman class...
A rusty old tractor and passion drives a young farm mechanic into family history
Freshman Brandon Pyper will connect to his family roots – deep in the engine of a 70-year-old tractor – as part of a national restoration contest that will take a year to complete...
A clean sweep: seven districts pass funding proposals
All seven school districts in Kent ISD that made funding requests to voters had them approved, despite the economic and health crises of the COVID-19 pandemic...
Districts come to voters with funding proposals May 5
Seven school districts in Kent ISD have funding requests on next week’s Tuesday, May 5 election ballot, ranging from major bond issues and sinking funds to non-homestead operating millage renewals...
Bond approval would fund new elementary building, athletic complex
On the ballot May 5 is a request for a major bond proposal to fund construction of a new school building and athletic facility...
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