‘Education is in my blood’
Besides decades of working in area public schools, David Washburn grew up in a family of educators, including his father, former Forest Hills Superintendent Michael Washburn...
MySchool@Kent students overcome obstacles to get to graduation
Students choose online high school for a variety of reasons. Here, a few of this year’s graduates reflect...
Take a bow, grasshoppers
Recorder karate is about many things, but first and foremost it is about training...
Comstock Park Board begins superintendent search
The search is on for a new superintendent after Ethan Ebenstein announced he is leaving the post at the end of June to become the superintendent at Ionia County ISD...
Injury, illness can’t hold back this future teacher
Her junior year, another ACL suffered a tear, and that too meant a visit to a surgeon. It was while recovering from that injury that Emily was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma...
‘You can’t rely on other people to build you up’
Shane Brewer admits he once did “the bare minimum” in school. “I just scraped along. It’s not that I’m not smart. I just didn’t see the point.” Until he did...
‘I want to teach,’ says senior inspired by sixth-grade teacher
This cadet plans a career in middle school education. He credits his own teachers for cementing his aspirations...
Zoo visit by students for students
Some 125 Stoney Creek Elementary kindergartners toured John Ball Zoo and were led by zoo school students
‘Books… were calling to me to learn more’
Stoney Creek second-graders recently got to use their fascination with certain animals to show off newly acquired nonfiction writing skills
Oatmeal raisin philanthropy gets students cooking
The after-school kitchen club formed in January is using proceeds from lunchtime sales of cookies to benefit kids facing cancer
STEM ed through mask-making
Some 120 seventh-graders in Whitney Goulooze’s art class at Mill Creek Middle School are being introduced to the special effects industry
Teachers Say Children Need to Play, Not Work All Day
If you think kindergartners still play with glue and paper all day, think again. In fact they're not playing enough, educators say, so they've set aside a day to do just that. See how children learn through playing at...
Writing Lesson Rewrite Produces Big Gains
Aiden Hernandez may only be in the first grade, but he's already got opinions about things. As in, "yes" to green beans and "no" to broccoli. And he's not a fan of snow or math, but he does like...
Students Play a Happy Tune with Symphony Pros
The three strings musicians who visited Pine Island Elementary this week didn't have to do a whole song and dance to hold the attention of teacher Wendy Hawes' fourth-graders. The songs were enough.
Jonathan Copsey's hand shot up during the...
Elevation Education By Way of Cape Hangnail
Sixth-graders' study of landforms had them traversing the Island of Podiatry by way of Bunion Strait, Blister Delta and the Isthmus of Lint. Afterward, the Mill Creek Middle schoolers got to plot their own island next door. And boy...
Today’s Lesson: How to Capture Zombies
Pine Island Elementary third-graders were hunched around six tables in Tony Molnar's STEM class, their kingdoms' crests waving overhead as they worked to construct traps for the invading zombies.
Noise level: about a 7.
Engagement: a perfect 10.
The goal: to imprison...
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