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Teacher pleaser, shoe tier, lifelong learner

Comstock Park Hannah Lentz

Tiffany Jackson is the new Stoney Creek Elementary School principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet the Principal...

‘Education is in my blood’

Comstock Park Hannah Lentz

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

Grads with Grit Janice Holst

Students choose online high school for a variety of reasons. Here, a few of this year’s graduates reflect...

Take a bow, grasshoppers

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

Recorder karate is about many things, but first and foremost it is about training...

Comstock Park Board begins superintendent search

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

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

Student Leaders Morgan Jarema

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’

Grads with Grit Morgan Jarema

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

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

This cadet plans a career in middle school education. He credits his own teachers for cementing his aspirations...

Zoo visit by students for students

Comstock Park School News Network

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’

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

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

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

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

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

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

Multi Districts Morgan Jarema

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...

Writing Lesson Rewrite Produces Big Gains

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

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"...

Students Play a Happy Tune with Symphony Pros

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

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...

Elevation Education By Way of Cape Hangnail

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema

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,...

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Second-grade teacher: literacy is a civil right

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Love of programming is in the code

Book battle promotes literacy, teamwork

Future health care pros sample multiple career focuses

Young readers follow the recipe for perfect pound cake

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High-school journalists provide behind-the-scenes look at news production

Basketball team unites students, promotes inclusion

His heart is in the health care field

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