Blowing the woof off design thinking
Fifth graders were challenged to develop works of art that could be printed on a product and sold at the Raise the Woof event on Nov. 22 to benefit Hearts of Hope dog rescue...
Learning under the trees
Local teachers who are mentoring the next generation of environmental stewards are benefiting from Groundswell's monthly programming...
Asia Society visits Chinese immersion students
Meadow Brook Elementary’s Chinese immersion program is a partner with the Asia Society, an international group that supports schools with professional development and grant funding...
Hooked on history and gifted in writing, senior publishes paper on PBB crisis
Eastern High School senior Claire Parish’s National History Day article on the 1970s PBB crisis is in the current issue of Michigan History magazine...
Governor Whitmer makes Michigan the first state ever to ban the sales of flavored...
A student editorial on the recent action aimed at trying to curb teen vaping...
Protect our waters from straws, pesticides and other pollutants, students say
The videos were initiated last year as a project with Groundswell, with whom the school has partnered for water quality education for the past four years...
How’s school? No really, your voice matters
Students at Eastern Middle School participated in one of four workshops in April as part of the national Student Voice Organization’s school tour...
Chaffee scholarship winner aims to leave a legacy, in the lab or in the...
Forest Hills Central senior Noah Stout, who will enter the U.S. Air Force Academy in the fall, recently was named recipient of this year’s $3,000 annual award from the Roger B. Chaffee Scholarship Fund...
Students teach students in history-making collaboration
Northern Hills Middle eighth-graders made videos on chosen aspects of the American Revolution. Elementary teachers will be able to show them to their students as part of their introduction to the unit...
Inadequate funding – even in affluent districts – still short-changes students
It’s not just poorer districts feeling the pain from Michigan’s inadequate school funding, officials say. Higher-income districts are also pinched by the funding formula and having to make cuts...
Increased costs, slow funding increases create tight budget
While Forest Hills is considered one of the most affluent school districts in West Michigan, it still feels the budget pinch of a lower per-pupil allowance than the district received a decade ago...
Lightbulb lunches garner student voice
Every month, teachers recommend a different group of students from each grade for lunch with the principal. Students offer suggestions and ideas about their school...
Nick Minnema – special and driven, for all the right reasons
The Forest Hills Transition Center student and athlete competed this month at the Special Olympics World Games half a world away – in the United Arab Emirates’ capital city of Abu Dhabi, as well as the UAE’s largest city, Dubai...
Their writing is tops with readers, judges
A pair of students from two West Michigan public schools took high honors in the seventh annual Write Michigan short story contest, hosted by Kent District Library and Schuler Books & Music...
Why did the pencil cross the road? Wait for it …
The pint-sized comedians got tips from comedian Allen Trieu, then tried out their own funny bone-tickling skills on one another...
Urban & suburban students find common interests in 15-year partnership
The recent meet-and-greet was the 15th annual gathering of students from the two elementary schools...
Governor Whitmer makes Michigan the first state ever to ban the sales of flavored...
A student editorial on the recent action aimed at trying to curb teen vaping...
If I have to be standardized, so do they
Forest Hills Central High School Senior Reena Mathews reflects on her experience as a student taking standardized tests...
A Shadower’s-eye View of Job Shadow Day
One cannot simply learn from a classroom or a computer the insights and experiences that reside in a workforce, beyond the education bubble and removed from the nurtured opinions with which parents heavily equip their kids. I have no...
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