Godwin Heights band marches on in top form
The legacy of making stellar music continues at Godwin Heights High School, where more than 200 students are in the marching band...
A place to grow and harvest
New garden collaboration feeds students’ minds and bodies...
Retooled for school
The main objective was to move fifth-graders out of middle school, but administrators say there have been benefits at all grade levels...
Local students take top prizes in Dyer-Ives poetry competition
Aliya Hall of Godwin Heights High School won first place for her poem 'Hawk Island Girl' while Alissa Vezikov of East Rockford Middle School won first place for her poem 'Grief'...
The Biology Chronicles
An entire year of science curriculum fits handily into three stories...
Students make friends by way of pen
A teacher and her former teacher are connecting their classrooms through letters...
Young mom surpasses expectations to get to graduation day
Ahnaka Ortiz-Rodriguez started high school while pregnant and will graduate on time, with honors and an upward trajectory-- toddler in tow...
Of painters and putters
A middle school art teacher puts pizzazz into an art history unit by pairing it with an unlikely sport...
Kindergarten Karavan connects with incoming students
Every fall, a new group of kindergartners -- some excited, some teary -- heads to school for their first day of what should be a 13-year foray into formal education. Inevitably, a few are missing: Perhaps their families didn’t...
Her joy: watching them ‘discover what they can do’
Rockstar Teacher Susie Poliski...
The writing on the wall
School shifts from covering up graffiti to creating murals in bathrooms...
Grant aims to ready middle schoolers for what comes after high school
Seventh-graders in four Wyoming school districts will receive tutoring, mentoring and career exploration opportunities via Grand Rapids Community College...
Picture this: students pledge to graduate
The Godwin Family Promise...
Nurturing a love of nature
A middle school’s extracurricular club aims to get students outdoors and in-the-know about the environment...
Social skills, life skills & job skills, one beverage at a time
The cart is a new service that seems like a simple enough undertaking. But for the four students who operate the cart, it’s providing valuable lessons that will transfer to other avenues in life...
Turning the (multiplication) tables
The Michigan Mathematics Educators (MichME) initiative is changing the way math is taught in West Michigan schools, one teacher and classroom at a time. After four years, the program has rewired the way math is taught by more than 250 educators and administrators...
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