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Taking her own advice & trying something new

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

Cassandra Chartier is the new director of preschool and Campus Kids programs for Cedar Springs Public Schools. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet Your Administrators...

Nationally ranked in jiu-jitsu, she’s more than ‘pretty good’

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

This sixth-grader is fast becoming a pre-teen powerhouse in the sporting world of Brazilian jiu-jitsu, earning national rankings and competing with teens nearly twice her age...

Fitnesspalooza boosts minds, bodies, one another

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

A mental and physical wellness day in Cedar Springs taught sixth-graders how to cope with stress and advocate for their peers...

EGR and Kelloggsville pass millage requests, but Cedar turns down sinking fund

Multi Districts Phil de Haan

Local districts went two-for-three in Tuesday’s elections, with voters in Kelloggsville and East Grand Rapids approving tax requests. However, voters in Cedar Springs turned down a proposed renewal of a 10-year-old sinking fund...

Millage requests on ballot Tuesday for three Kent County school districts

Multi Districts Phil de Haan

Three Kent ISD school districts -- Cedar Springs, East Grand Rapids and Kelloggsville -- are going to their voters with millage requests on Tuesday, Nov. 2...

Pandemic-era teaching no longer ‘an impossible task’

School 2.0 Beth Heinen Bell

Teachers from Cedar Springs and Rockford share their “Lessons of the Pandemic” experiences with School News Network...

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FFA students teach young 5’s about soybeans, farm safety and natural resources

Cedar Springs Brett Atwood

FFA students from Cedar Springs High School taught young 5’s classes about soybeans, farm safety and natural resources...

District says bond projects on time, on budget

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

With projects at Cedar Trails and the middle school completed this summer, the district has begun construction on new classrooms and hybrid learning spaces at the high school...

Students join community in honoring fallen heroes

Multi Districts Janice Holst

Students from clubs dedicated to character-building take part in the seventh annual Freedom Cruise, a community-wide event honoring Gold Star families...

Artist-in-residence helps students tap interests to grow creative skills, independence

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

Teacher Nichol Handwork said the partnership was a marked change from the typical, quiet R1TS classroom setting, where students often don’t seek out much social interaction...

Red Hawk Elementary team headed to Odyssey of the Mind World Finals

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

After a season of virtual competitions, Red Hawk Elementary School’s Odyssey of the Mind team is headed to Florida for the World Finals...

Your district’s summer programs at-a-glance

Cedar Springs School News Network

Area public school districts are gearing up to provide K-12 programs this summer to address learning loss impacted by the coronavirus pandemic...

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Peacocks, goats, Legos: this fifth-grade farmer does it all

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

Not many fifth-graders can say that they live on an exotic peafowl and pheasant farm. But to Cole, life on the farm is hard to describe because it’s just… life...

Rain, snow or shine, you’ll find them learning outdoors

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

In Audrey Debri’s Young Fives class at Cedar Trails, you can expect the unexpected. Except for one thing: Class will always be held outside...

Drier of tears, returner of backpacks, bus driver extraordinaire

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

Mr. Jeff has made a big impact on families since he first got behind the wheel of a district bus a little more than a year ago...

Cohorted specials usher in ‘a new kind of community’

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

Cedar Trails Elementary School’s “specials” teachers — art, music, physical education and literacy and technology — have joined forces to create an outdoor recreation program...

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