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Lessons from a pandemic: ‘agile learners’ need ‘agile adults’

Caledonia Alexis Stark

Reflecting on the end of fall semester and 2020, Superintendent Dedrick Martin sat down with School News Network to discuss how Caledonia adapted to school closures, virtual learning and social distancing during the COVID-19 pandemic...

Tech-savvy sixth-graders take first place in IT competition

Caledonia Alexis Stark

Computer programming, dancing & chicken nuggets fueled the winning team...

Longtime agriscience teacher earns honorary FFA degree

Caledonia Alexis Stark

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

Caledonia Alexis Stark

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

All Districts Erin Albanese

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

Caledonia Alexis Stark

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

Caledonia Alexis Stark

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

Caledonia Alexis Stark

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

Caledonia Alexis Stark

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 Alexis Stark

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

Caledonia Alexis Stark

Teachers are being trained in using the Michigan Virtual platform for online instruction...

‘Farm to School’

Caledonia Hannah Lentz

Caledonia Schools passed out more than 1,300 boxes of produce to community members through the Farm to School Program...

Words to Live By

Caledonia Hannah Lentz

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

Caledonia Hannah Lentz

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

Multi Districts School News Network

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

Multi Districts School News Network

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...

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CALEDONIA STUDENT SHOWCASE

How creativity changes the world

Caledonia Student Showcase School News Network

Pathways of creativity and ingenuity have tempted the larger scope of humanity since its earliest ancestors... (Student Op-Ed by Jenna Waggoner)

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Montessori educator talks passion, challenges & upsides of profession

Senior shutterbug lives to capture moments in time

Afghan student shares story of escape, survival & the hero who helped him on the way

Parents learn English, form school connections

Fifth-graders prepare for STEM project with an animal visit

Art plus STEM = student-designed machines

Library learning includes space, the eclipse and all things astronomical

Book battle promotes literacy, teamwork

High-schoolers share experience in AP African American Studies with State Board of Education

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Basketball team unites students, promotes inclusion

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