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He’s the teacher’s pet – really – and students’ furry friend

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Dave the therapy dog is an official staff member at the ECC and a best friend to his students...

District library furnishings to get upgrade

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Godfrey-Lee school media centers will get a furniture makeover next spring, thanks to a grant from the Michigan Education Foundation...

Districts add staff, increase compensation thanks to ‘historic’ funding increase

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
Raises, programs, added staff are planned due to increased education dollars...

Christmas in August wraps up

Classrooms for All Alexis Stark
After 15 years serving West Michigan schools, School Supplies Santa goes out the way it came in: providing teachers with school supplies for the new school year...

School starts with high hopes, imaginative art and a new building

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
Kent County students return to classes this week...

Grant to give library a much needed boost

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Godfrey Elementary was awarded a $5,000 grant from the Laura Bush Foundation to stock the library with new non-fiction books...

Read a book, earn a badge – or all 46

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Godfrey Elementary teacher Scott Kelly developed a reading challenge that is proving very popular. Other teachers can get in on it, too...

Grand Valley grad, Detroit native new Affinity Mentoring executive director

Multi Districts Phil de Haan
A local nonprofit that provides one-on-one mentoring relationships for Godfrey-Lee and Grand Rapids public schools has a new executive director...

His dream: explore the world through taste

Your Dream is Our Dream Morgan Jarema
Hoping to one day own his own restaurant, Manny says his teachers helped get him where he is...

After building failure, renovated school will be ‘worth the wait’

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Godfrey-Lee Public Schools officially breaks ground on their $17.9 million construction and renovation project at Lee Middle and High School...
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‘Let’s get together and play some music’

State of the Arts Alexis Stark
Lee and East Grand Rapids high schools performed a community concert as a dedication to Ukrainian refugees...

Imagining future careers, inspired to keep learning

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
In honor of Reading Month, Godfrey Elementary invited community members to read books to students and share information about their careers...

We can be great friends, even with differences 

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Godfrey Elementary fourth-graders learn about inclusion, acceptance and showing kindness...

Creating little legends by letting littles create

Project STEM Alexis Stark
The area, funded in part by a grant from the district’s education foundation, is aimed at building motor skills, inspiring exploration...

New district chief wants to be ‘CEO of hope’

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
New Superintendent Michael Burde strives to form strong relationships and be a ‘CEO of hope’ for the Godfrey-Lee community...

From five-minute sketches to frightful creatures

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark
Godfrey-Lee art teacher Rosanne Steffens’ third-graders drew five-minute monster sketches; her high school Advanced Drawing students then reimagined them into terrifying monsters...
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