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High School Earns International Baccalaureate Designation

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

You definitely could call East Grand Rapids High School sophomores Clara Luce and Keegan Sullivan avid learners. "Just talking about learning, to me, is really...

High School TEDx to “Burst Bubbles”

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Just about a year ago, Marie Lachance could sum up her state of mind as “nervous but hopeful,” though her friend Anna Laffrey would...

District Seeks Tax Renewals, Full Headlee Funding

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

East Grand Rapids Public Schools is the only Kent County school district with a March 8 tax proposal -- a trio of them, in...

New Technology Helps Kindergartners with Math

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Lakeside Elementary kindergartner Charlotte Kanaan stood beside teacher Shannon Mitchell and worked through a math problem, which her classmates could see thanks to a...

History, Geography Collide with Writing, Art and Math in ‘Around the World’ Exploration

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Lilly Vydareny said doing school lessons strictly from books is “sometimes pretty boring.” So when her fifth-grade class at Lakeside Elementary started an interactive “Journey...

Fun Furniture Invites Readers into New Learning Commons

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Teacher Katie McIntosh’s kindergartners made their way into Lakeside Elementary’s recently opened Learning Commons and quickly made themselves right at home. A group of girls...

A Capitol Idea

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Lakeside Elementary fourth-graders recently paid a visit to the state Capitol as part of the social studies curriculum on the State of Michigan. Classes...

Start College Planning Early, Experts Say

East Grand Rapids Erin Albanese

Focus on your GPA, get involved, develop good study habits. Students can start preparing for college as early as freshman year, which makes it...

Peddling Products at 4th Grade Mini-Market

East Grand Rapids Erin Albanese

Breton Downs Elementary fourth-grader Lauren Eckert's sparkly snowman ornaments, for sale for $2 each, caught the eye of third-grader Brayden Schulz as he shopped...

Finding Their “Aha Moment”

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

It's the last day of a week-long visit from bestselling children's author Melissa Stewart, and today it's Wealthy Elementary students' turn to share their...

Blue Ribbon Schools: ‘Not Built Overnight’

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Anthony Morey says he doesn’t know the magic recipe to being designated a Blue Ribbon School. But the Wealthy Elementary School principal is pretty...

Making Room For The Artist In School

East Grand Rapids Erin Albanese

East Grand Rapids Middle School art teacher Holly Lampen was planning a "frog apocalypse." Ninety paper-mache amphibians will soon hang from the school ceilings...

Two Blue Ribbon Award Winners Named in Kent County

Byron Center Erin Albanese

U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan recognized Brown Elementary School, in Byron Center Public Schools, and Wealthy Elementary School, in East Grand Rapids Public...

‘You Don’t Have to Do Bad Things to Have a Good Time’

East Grand Rapids Erin Albanese

On a recent Saturday afternoon, East Grand Rapids High School students Keagan Haulenbeek, Shannon Ors, Michael Bender and Emily Milanowski busied themselves around school...

Sophia Luettke Doesn’t Hope, She Plans

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Barely a week out of high school forever, Sophia Luettke sat in the three-season room at her East Grand Rapids home and wondered how...

Students Walk In Haitian Children’s Shoes for A Day

East Grand Rapids Erin Albanese

Carrying heavy buckets of water, balancing a basket on her head and completing work with crayons and paper gave Breton Downs Elementary fifth-grader Ella...

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