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He’s a leader who is always learning

Student Leaders Morgan Jarema

Kent ISD’s interpreter program, now in its second year, is helping ESL students find purpose in their new country using gifts they honed in their native countries...

First-gen college grad gives credit to parents, K-12 years

Caledonia Alexis Stark

Amer Bektaš is the son of Bosnian refugees, a sports enthusiast and radio voice, and is months away from being the first generation in his family to graduate college...

Around the world in seven holidays

Classrooms for All Alexis Stark

Students celebrated holidays as diverse as the number of cultures and languages spoken at the school...

Local students respond to Oxford shootings: ‘This should not be normal’

Youth Mental Health Morgan Jarema

Area students share their thoughts in the wake of the latest U.S. school shooting, this time fewer than 200 miles away...

Learning opportunities for student social-emotional and mental-health support

All Districts Kirsten Myers, director of special education, Kent ISD

Special Education Director Kirsten Myers shared the following list of Kent ISD resources that was sent out to special-education and other administrators throughout Kent County following last week’s mass shooting at Oxford High School...

Positive behavior: that’s the ticket

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Through incentives such as tickets for good behavior, West Godwin is seeing good results from a positive-behavior intervention program...

Professor co-authors antiracism glossary

Classrooms for All Erin Albanese

The Antiracism Glossary for Education and Life includes 48 terms and how people have experienced them...

Area schools prepare for the arrival of Afghan refugees

Classrooms for All Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

More than 200 participants have attended Kent ISD programs designed to highlight ways to welcome students and their families...

Fitnesspalooza boosts minds, bodies, one another

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

A mental and physical wellness day in Cedar Springs taught sixth-graders how to cope with stress and advocate for their peers...

New curriculum helps students understand how emotions impact learning

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

The district created a committee last year to review its social-emotional learning curriculum by defining a vision, considering why it is important and what the district hopes to achieve...

District begins multi-year effort to improve equity, scholar success

Classrooms for All Erin Albanese

A multi-year initiative, District Equity and Scholar Success Team, will work to embed equity practices into all areas of education...

Gunner, another counseling dog, joins Chillie as greeter, morale booster

Rockford Beth Heinen Bell

The Rockford Education Foundation recently welcomed Gunner the golden retriever to the high school counseling program as a counseling dog...

Pre-teach, teach, reteach

Byron Center Erin Albanese

Students learn through a “pre-teach and reteach model,” sometimes receiving instruction three different times as additional support...

School coordinators tap into communities, connect resources

All Districts Erin Albanese

Eighteen months into the pandemic, there’s perhaps never been a time more pressing for families to have a sense of belonging in their schools...

Getting resources to classrooms: the critical importance of the state school aid budget process

Issues in Education Sunil Joy, research data analyst for Kent ISD

The support from the federal government represents a rare, one-time allocation of funds to aid pandemic recovery. Long-term progress requires continued, annual advocacy at the state level around the School Aid Budget...

Post-pandemic years will focus on student recovery

All Districts Erin Albanese

Several West Michigan educators contributed to the MI Blueprint for Comprehensive Student Recovery, recently released by Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and state education leaders to support student recovery from the pandemic’s impact...

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