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Making Math Add Up Janice Holst

Four years ago, Cedar View fifth grade teachers Jennifer Kahler and Erin Cairy switched the traditional teaching style of explaining math concepts and helping...

Team Targets ‘Anything That Might Impede Education’

Cedar Springs Janice Holst

"I am not that person holding a sign on the busy street corner and I don't sleep under the bridge. But, I am homeless." Students...

Dog Groomer, Band Fan, Roving Boater

Meet Your Administrators Janice Holst

School: Cedar View Elementary Other positions you have held in education: Previously I was a teacher, a school principal, a program coordinator, and a discipline...

Reading Always Comes First

Meet Your Administrators Janice Holst

School: Beach Elementary Other positions you have held in education: Before coming to Cedar Springs, I was a teacher, an assistant principal and a principal...

Make them Feel ‘Valued, Capable and Loved’

Cedar Springs Janice Holst

School: Cedar Trails Other positions you have held in education: I was a principal and early childhood director for DeWitt Public Schools for three years;...

District Hops into New School Year with Positive Message

Cedar Springs Janice Holst

High school biology and chemistry teacher Edward Johns has always believed his job is to help students become the "best versions of themselves." But...

Six Teachers Seek National Board Credentials

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

Big names in teaching in Kent County – Michigan Teachers of the Year for 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 – have joined forces to share the...

Teacher Travels the World to Enrich Lessons Back Home

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The lights are off. A projector screen glows with a map of Berlin with a line dividing the former East and West sectors. Shayne Dove,...

Class, Meet Gator — 972 Miles Away

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An giant reptilian eye stared, unblinking, at a room full of elementary students on a recent Monday. It belonged to a juvenile alligator, in the...

For These Seniors, Degrees Already in Sight

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Three years ago, 25 district sophomores decided to get an early start on college. All are well on their way to graduating this fall,...

Vietnam Vets Bring Realities of War Back Home to Students

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Speaking to juniors at their alma mater, a pair of Vietnam veterans provided students both with historical perspective and a lesson more personal. Chuck Smith...

Learning to Love Reading

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After the school day ends, second-graders at Beach Elementary are still at work to become masters of the alphabet. In "super switch" groups based on...

Young Authors Learn from Published Ones — and Each Other

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A room full of authors gathered at Cedar Springs Middle School. One was a guest speaker, author David Stricklen, and the rest were seventh-graders. Students...

Building a Band Program, From Squeaks to Symphonic

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If you talk to a sixth-grader or a high school senior from Kent City's band program, you will hear a similar story. For first-chair...

Community, Consistency + Shared Expectations = Stronger Academics

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A new banner meant to create a shared experience across age groups is getting educators, administrators and parents out of their seats, partnering up...

A Friend’s Message on Suicide: ‘This is For Real’

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Before the opening credits to a film about suicide, freshman Noah McGee took the stage at Cedar Springs High School to share his painful,...

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