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Teacher Cadet Feels ‘Super Legit’

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Tomer Adnegeko admits he used to think teaching at the elementary level would be way easier than middle and high school.

Gone in Six Seconds

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The golf balls that Bill Trapp's students launched over a third-story railing could be the basis for future engineering or science innovations. More than 50...

Gotta Know the Territory

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Middle School’s First-ever Musical a Classic

These Third-graders are Pure Michigan

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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!

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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

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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...
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