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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...

Puppets help ‘The Little Prince’ safely take the stage

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark

Coming in the spring, The Wiz...

Godfrey-Lee board names new superintendent

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark

The search for the new Godfrey-Lee superintendent is over...

Two finalists named in superintendent search

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark

Following the interviews of three potential candidates for superintendent, the Godfrey-Lee Public Schools Board of Education invited two finalists for interviews on Wednesday, Nov. 17...

Listening, believing in students

Godfrey-Lee Alexis Stark

Johana Rodriguez-Quist is the new Godfrey Elementary School principal...

Camera offers new perspective, career goal

Loves math, wants to work in medicine with children

A black belt in space

A fifth-grader at heart

Sub’s video book teasers get high marks from viewers

Discovering the ‘why’ of career exploration

A door to reading

Theater students find community through ‘Matilda’ musical

What is it like to be a high school student today?

Education space, the ‘third teacher’

Film class ‘teaching us how to be whole’

District buildings promote mental health awareness

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