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Opportunities + confidence = preparation

Multi Districts Alexis Stark

Lee High School’s first GEAR UP cohort readies to take the next step...

Key to PBIS: it’s reinforced everywhere

Multi Districts Alexis Stark

Students across the county know school-wide expectations, and districts say that helps them focus on academics...

Wanted: your voice to weigh in on strategic plan

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark

One of the first opportunities for community members to share feedback is through a survey...

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Student’s love of book, teacher’s Instagram post lead to author visit

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark

A teacher’s Instagram post about a fifth-grader’s love of a book leads to a classroom visit by the author...

Young, older students pair to celebrate bilingualism superpowers

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark

Kindergartners team up with high schoolers to harness their superpower: speaking more than one language...

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From collapse to construction, a new building takes shape

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark

Summer construction has produced new changes at Lee Middle and High School with more to come this school year...

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...

Rider’s experience guided by love, respect for horses

Former umpire is now making calls at Rockford High

The goal: to help people

Helping, ‘in any way I’m able to’

Kent Career Tech Center and Kent Transition Center to merge

Student artwork depicting Michigan’s strengths wins state competition

Hands-on learning means expanded skills

Thanks to Ariel, he’s part of that world

Teacher shares holiday tradition with students

Biggest individual donation ever will support mental health

District builds sense of belonging with after-school programs

‘Your emotions matter’

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