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Students Hold Their Own Olympics, STEM-Style

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
If you were a child, wouldn’t it be fun to make your own Olympic athletes out of stick-on pipe-cleaner thingies? Yes it would -- just ask these Godfrey-Lee fourth-graders

District Seeking New Tax for Facilities, Technology

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
Community information meetings on the Godfrey-Lee sinking fund proposal are scheduled at 6:30 p.m. March 20 in the media center at Lee Middle/High School...

Teachers Tell Their Stories, to Help Other Teachers

Multi Districts Erin Albanese
"What inspires you to come to school every day and teach children?" interviewer Rosie del Valle asked Gladiola Elementary intervention math coach Kristi Baumbach. Baumbach,...

Students Bring Concerns from Classroom to Council

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
East Lee High School students recently served as a voice for the millions of victims of human trafficking worldwide, including thousands in West Michigan,...

When Learners Become the Teachers

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
To explain how he learns best, Lee High School sophomore Elijah Kibbe described studying all the ingredients for ice cream treats before he started...

‘We’re Living His Dream’

Godfrey-Lee Jaye Beeler
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the...

Grant Project Aims to Boost Third-grade Reading

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
In an effort to improve third-grade reading proficiency, the district will receive $20,000 to implement instructional practices recommended by Reading Now Network over the...

Don’t Just Tweak the Telegraph

Godfrey-Lee School News Network
Commentary by Kevin Polston, Superintendent, Godfrey-Lee Public Schools One of the universal shared American experiences is our public education system. Our country takes pride in...

Schoolyard Watershed Stewardship

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
Oh, the creatures you’ll find in a creek! Early Childhood Center students shrieked as they discovered the tiny inhabitants of Plaster Creek. “I got something!...

Hispanic Culture Celebrated a Lo Grande!

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
The Mexican Hat Dance is perhaps cutest when performed by kindergarten, first- and second-graders, Early Education Center students demonstrated. Led by music teacher Tami Nelson,...

A Patient and Kind Friend to Newcomers

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
It's an extraordinary claim: During her 10 years working with middle school students, Missdalia Rios-Segundo says, not one has ever treated her with disrespect. But...

Low Test Scores & Low Income Linked; Staff Seek to Help

The Road to Reading Erin Albanese
At Godfrey-Lee Public Schools, the Kent County district with the lowest family income, the correlation between M-STEP scores and poverty is stark. More than...

Superintendents Support Students In the Face of DACA Decision

Godfrey-Lee Charles Honey
As a mother and grandmother, Teresa Weatherall Neal knows well the value of family. And as superintendent of nearly 17,000 Grand Rapids Public Schools...

How to Measure Brilliance? By More Than a Test

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
At East Lee Campus, you’ll find students participating in a mock trial with a local mayor as judge, presenting marketing plans for a school...

Teachers Train Together to Help Close the Gap

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
A fence illustration is often used to show the difference between equality and equity. Two pictures each show three children, one tall, one short and...

New School Chief Aims to ‘Build Trust and Relationships’

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
Superintendent Kevin Polston is greeting people in the neighborhoods, school and local businesses. He's talking to students, letting them see he wants to know...
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