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These Third-graders are Pure Michigan

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Third-graders at Wealthy Elementary spend all year studying the Mitten State they call home, and it turns out some are already pretty Michigan-savvy. "I've been...

Concert Honors ‘Passionate but Humble’ Journalist and Musician

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Jagienka Timek, Drew Johnston and Anneke Avery admit that before high school, they really had no idea who Daniel Pearl was. The trio of seniors...

Learning Is In the Eye of the Bee-holder

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

A group of middle schoolers clustered around a two-sided honeybee observation hive and delivered a rapid-fire commentary on what they were seeing. Inside the colony,...

Banging on Rocks Shapes Global Learners

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Sixth-grader Sam Williams used firm, deliberate pressure with a deer antler to try to chip flakes off a sedimentary rock, called chert. She was...

Spelling Skills Take Off with Student-created Website

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Josh Pullen says he wasn’t exactly a fan of spelling practice and weekly quizzes when he was in elementary school. He muddled through, sure....

Spartan, Hip-Hopper, Champion for Students

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

School: Lakeside Elementary Other positions you have held in education: I taught elementary Spanish for one year, spent five years in elementary classrooms, and was...

Learning Through Serving

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Empathy and compassion were the lessons of the day recently at two district schools: Haiti Day at Breton Downs Elementary and the 11th annual...

The Power of the Pen, from Three to 100

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Two classrooms, two grades ... two levels of writing being honed. All in a day's work at Breton Downs Elementary. Never Too Old for Star...

Students Do Battle with ‘Bots, Steampunk Style

East Grand Rapids Erin Albanese

Busy 'bots, moving gears and quick-thinking pilots converged at the For Inspiration & Recognition of Science & Technology (FIRST) Robotics district finals at East...

Twirly Skirt, Hot Tamales and a Passable British Accent

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

As original projects go, Megan Miller's science unit on the Earth's core layers takes the cake and then some. "Some students did make cakes, and...

Geography Made Personal

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

For many, Glen Arbor is home to Sleeping Bear Dunes and family vacations. But Joe Hunter knows the Northern Michigan town as the place...

Fighting Words!

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

If you think reading comprehension is accomplished best in quiet spaces, you haven't done reading comprehension the way Winona Tinholt's students do it. For the...

Students Awed by Virtual Visit to Roof of the World

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

As Jill Smith readied for a lesson on Mount Everest, those in her classroom giggled with anticipation: The mountain wasn't coming to them; they...

Chess Mates: Club Logs 30 Years and Counting

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

At 3:30 on most any Tuesday afternoon, the hallways of Lakeside Elementary are teeming with students eager to make their way out of the...

Take Your Order, Sir? Sure. Tie Your Shoes, Son?

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

No matter what your job title, restaurant work can be fast-paced, noisy, hectic and messy. But for those who work the lunch shift at...

On Protest Day, ‘There Sure was a Lot of Love’

East Grand Rapids School News Network

What started as a disgruntled Facebook post following the 2016 election results, by Hawaii resident Teresa Shook, turned into nationwide marches with an estimated...

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