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Parking Lot Painted with ‘Positivity & Joy’

Comstock Park Charles Honey

On a gray-grit city parking lot through some of this summer’s hottest days, a dozen students painted a bright path of hope. Their zig-zag creation...

Need Tutors? Call the Cool Kids (a.k.a High Schoolers)

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

On Tuesday afternoons, high school junior Cristina Essex and Emily Sternburgh make their way to Mill Creek Middle School Media Center to help sixth-...

Sculpting Real Helping Hands

Comstock Park School News Network

A trio of Kent Career Tech Center 3D Animation students from Comstock Park and Sparta high schools recently had the opportunity to turn their...

Who Will Love the Worms? Kindergartners

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

One rainy spring afternoon, Stoney Park Elementary kindergartners discovered earthworms wiggling on the playground. When several students brought the squirmy creatures inside, teacher Cheryl...

Teacher Challenges Students to Think, Take Risks

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

Mike Swift flipped off the lights in his eighth-grade language arts classroom. He momentarily went into the hall, cracked open the door and peered...

Reading Gets Campy in the Classroom

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

What better way to read a good story than in the dark with a flashlight? Add s’mores, tents and good friends. As part of March...

March Madness, Books Edition

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

Mill Creek Middle School students are narrowing top-rated books to declare their March Madness Tournament of Books final champion. Students began the tourney with 16...

Doing Your Best Earns Recognition

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

There’s a growing group of students at Mill Creek Middle School wearing green and yellow T-shirts with the words “Got PRIDE” on them. The sixth-through-eighth-graders...

Retro Dinner Theater, with Songs You Can Dance To

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

Mill Creek Middle School sixth-grade choir students opened their arms wide, punctuating "Life goes on, bra!" during the Beatles' 1968 hit "Ob-La-Di, Ob-La-Da". Then they...

Drama Club “Space Aliens” Teach Etiquette, Theater Basics

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

Aliens made a surprise appearance in the Pine Island Elementary media center recently. The youngsters from a galaxy far, far away soon made friends with...

Let’s Build It Club Encourages Tinkering

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

It seemed like magic in the 1980s commercial for The Clapper light, but Pine Island Elementary students took just minutes to make their own...

Move More, Do Better in School

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

Things got moving fast recently in Stoney Creek Elementary School teacher Heather Paparella's second-grade class. Students were stretching, jumping and dancing. Students were taking a...

When Being a Nerd is ‘More Than OK’

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

Being a "nerd" at Comstock Park High School is about doing what you enjoy, taking pride in being smart and sharing quirky passions with...

Grad Returns to Share White House Adventures

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

Taylor Gehrcke remembers daydreaming when he was a high school student about where he would like to serve as an intern. The White House...

Area Science Teachers Take National Stage

Comstock Park School News Network

Go ahead, ask a question. Better yet, ask a bunch of questions. Three science teachers from Kent ISD schools were among 10 teachers who recently...

MSU? U of M? Elementary Students Consider College Opportunities

Comstock Park Erin Albanese

Mondays at Pine Island Elementary School have students thinking about becoming doctors, teachers, lawyers, politicians and FBI agents. How to get there? "You have to pass...

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