Budding poets find their voices
When Betsy Berry began a month-long poetry unit this fall, she never imagined that a single poem would spark a newfound passion for poetry in her eighth graders...
Words matter
Last year’s annual climate and culture survey revealed that bullying and name calling were affecting a significant number of students at the school...
A room to groom
Middle school barbershop provides free cuts, nurtures love of reading...
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...
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