Godwin Heights

Students got a simulated experience that included a budget (complete with educational loan debt) based on their intended career path...

Students use a chart to help them choose their own consequences for inappropriate behavior...

A writing assignment yielded some meaningful outcomes for fourth graders in Kelly Compher’s class at North Godwin Elementary...

The experimentation involved dropping, crushing and trying to understand the effects of forces on different objects...

Students apply their math skills to send dolls on a high-flying adventure...

An informal School News Network survey of public school districts in Kent County besides Forest Hills showed cell-phone use is generally not permitted in elementary schools, and only allowed under strictly defined conditions in middle and high schools...

A middle school girls’ group builds leadership while focusing on social justice...

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...

Last year’s annual climate and culture survey revealed that bullying and name calling were affecting a significant number of students at the school...

Middle school barbershop provides free cuts, nurtures love of reading...

The legacy of making stellar music continues at Godwin Heights High School, where more than 200 students are in the marching band...

New garden collaboration feeds students’ minds and bodies...

The main objective was to move fifth-graders out of middle school, but administrators say there have been benefits at all grade levels...

Ahnaka Ortiz-Rodriguez started high school while pregnant and will graduate on time, with honors and an upward trajectory-- toddler in tow...

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'...

An entire year of science curriculum fits handily into three stories...