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U.S. Education Secretary: ‘We gotta fight for our educators’

All Districts Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona hosted a roundtable discussion on public service loan forgiveness with local educators.

Scooch over; this principal wants to eat lunch with you

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell

Alan Bosker is the new principal of Cummings Elementary School. SNN gets to know him better in this edition of Meet Your Administrators.

First-year teacher wants students to know ‘You can have fun while learning’

Podcasts School News Network

In this episode of Study Hall, first-year Kent City teacher Marla Anderson discusses why she chose teaching at a time new teachers are badly needed.

Why do most schools start before Labor Day? Several reasons

Multi Districts Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Middle college programs are the main reason Kent ISD seeks a post-Labor Day waiver for all local school districts. But there are others.

Student musicians tour Europe, performing along the way

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

With Michigan Musicians Abroad, high school students performed concerts in London, Paris, Switzerland, Austria and Germany.

Bus drivers role-play safety, security events

All Districts Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

More than 170 attended a training focused on educating bus drivers on how to handle unexpected violence and threats.

Starting the school year right for 10,000+ Kent County students

Multi Districts Alexis Stark

Storehouse of Community Resources collaborated with local businesses and community organizations to fill backpacks with supplies for more than 10,000 Kent County students at their inaugural Big Backpack Build event.

After year of planning, district ready to introduce ‘Oakestown culture’

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell

Leaders in Grandville have spent the past year preparing the building now known as Oakestown Intermediate for its new purpose as a grade 5-6 school, both physically and philosophically.

Voters say ‘yes’ to library, early childhood millage requests

All Districts Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Both the Kent District Library and the Ready by Five early childhood millage requests had huge support at the polls.

Bird Club’s ‘whole vibe’ is about walking, talking & spotting species

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell

At Grandville High School, teen birders come together to “stare at a little feathered creature in a tree,” and so much more.

The full package: Girls get behind-the-scenes look at manufacturing

Grandville Brett Atwood

Grandville High School students toured Amway as the culmination of a Women in Manufacturing series.

Fourth-graders mark year’s end with horses

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell

Century Park Learning Center students took their reading and volunteer skills to a therapeutic horse center as they discovered new ways to learn outside the classroom.

New manufacturing hub means more space, more students

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Kent Career Tech Center’s new manufacturing hub brought together four programs, each in larger spaces: welding, engineering, precision machining and mechatronics.

Career options soar with high school’s new aeronautics program

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell

Grandville High School launched a brand-new aeronautics program this year, a two-semester class that teaches the basics of aviation and so much more.

Leadership group brings students together to make connections and share their views

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Students in the Kent ISD Student Leadership Community believe they are being heard and it is helping to make the educational environment better.

At JA BizTown, a mini city provides life-sized learning

Multi Districts Riley Kelley

Students from Rockford, Grandville, Kenowa Hills and Sparta are among those who’ve taken part in the JA BizTown program, which launched in spring 2023.

She’s in year 20, and ‘goes at it like year two’

Dedication & drive, in the dojo and beyond

New leader thankful for district’s ‘collective effort’ to serve kids

Future CFO on next step: ‘an actual dream come true’

Class project goes from ‘aqua-what?’ to aquaponics

Fifth-graders pull details from book to build dioramas

Young musicians team up with orchestra to play recorders & do the hand jive

A career in auto repair? For some students, it starts in high school

Student news crew explores how the district feeds thousands of students every day

Paper quilt stitches cultures together as one colorful community

District addresses needs of autism students with smaller classrooms

Podcast: Schools hearing concerns from families over federal deportation plans

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