Godwin Heights Archives - Page 3 of 11 - School News Network

A room to groom

Godwin Heights Bridie Bereza

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

Godwin Heights band marches on in top form

Godwin Heights Brett Atwood

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

Godwin Heights Bridie Bereza

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

Retooled for school

Godwin Heights Bridie Bereza

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

Young mom surpasses expectations to get to graduation day

Godwin Heights Bridie Bereza

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

Local students take top prizes in Dyer-Ives poetry competition

Godwin Heights Charles Honey

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

Godwin Heights Bridie Bereza

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

Students make friends by way of pen

Godwin Heights Bridie Bereza

A teacher and her former teacher are connecting their classrooms through letters...

Of painters and putters

Godwin Heights Bridie Bereza

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

Featured Briefs Bridie Bereza

Every fall, a new group of kindergartners -- some excited, some teary -- heads to school for their first day of what should be...

Her joy: watching them ‘discover what they can do’

Godwin Heights Bridie Bereza

Rockstar Teacher Susie Poliski...

The writing on the wall

Godwin Heights Bridie Bereza

School shifts from covering up graffiti to creating murals in bathrooms...

Grant aims to ready middle schoolers for what comes after high school

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

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

Godwin Heights Bridie Bereza

The Godwin Family Promise...

Nurturing a love of nature

Godwin Heights Bridie Bereza

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

Godwin Heights Bridie Bereza

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...