New building, no new taxes, say district officials
The issue will appear at the bottom of the ballot on Tuesday, Nov. 6, and is part of a long-term plan to update and modernize the district’s elementary schools...
Community Celebration draws a big crowd
The district hosted its annual Community Celebration on Sept. 14 in front of the middle school. Students, their families and members of the community came out to enjoy games, bouncy castles and treats, and to hear music...
Stress test: students speak their minds on the M-STEP
Rather than go back to the same hand-wringing sources about M-STEP scores, we decided to ask the people most directly affected by these tests: the students who take them...
Of travel, teaching, and Timberlake
Beth Travis is the new principal at East Kelloggsville Elementary School. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet Your Principal...
Mr. Rocket’s legacy trails for four decades
Retiring Athletic Director Bruce Foster leaves a legacy of impacting students’ lives through sports, and doing what he can to provide an excellent program for student athletes...
‘He tells me to never give up’
Susan Faulk’s English Language Arts for ELL students are benefiting from one-on-one time with tutors who sit down to listen to them read books, or from a computer reading program...
Drama’s back, and students are ready to act
After five years without a program and, now, with a renovated auditorium, a stockpile of props pulled from storage and two enthusiastic new hires, Kelloggsville High School theater has been resurrected...
Fine dining, served up student-style
Third-grade students, proclaiming “Let’s Eat!” in Italian, welcomed guests to their student-led dinner, getting a taste of running a restaurant...
Practicing leadership on the playground
Sixth-through-eighth graders are using the skills they learn in the semester-long leadership class and paying them forward helping out at the elementary school to reinforce good behavior...
New approach lifts struggling students’ math scores
Thanks to streamlined coaching, students are filling in gaps in their basic skills so they can move forward in math
Olympic-style reading events push students to go for the gold
Forget a pentathlon or decathlon; Southeast Kelloggsville Elementary School students completed up to 20 events for the “Read for the Gold!” March is Reading Month theme.
With the focus on reading at home, fourth- and fifth-graders tallied up points toward...
Deeply rooted in community, retiree helps plant trees and love of reading
Retired Forest Hills media specialist Jim Ward works to support reading and good schools in his community of Kelloggsville
Teachers help teachers take it to the next level at Van Andel Education Institute
Mastermind is a group of West Michigan teachers, principals, social workers and other educators who have met monthly at Van Andel Education Institute this school year, working together to overcome challenges common to many of them
Hispanic families struggle with uncertainty about Dreamers’ future
Students who are Dreamers, among about 700,000 young people nationwide who arrived to the U.S. as children of undocumented parents and are enrolled in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, wonder if they will be able to go to college or secure financial aid. They feel betrayed by the system
Retiring police chief says teen sessions will continue
James Carmody has made it a priority to give high school students a voice at the table. Every week he meets with students, rotating between Wyoming, Godwin Heights, Lee and Kelloggsville high schools
Way Cool: Public Library Within a School
The new Kelloggsville Branch of Kent District Library was buzzing with activity as children, teens and families checked out the new community facility they can walk to for books, study and technology use. Teachers and staff members, who are...
‘Rice Bowls’ a Poem by Seventh-grader Christeen Nguyen
Rice Bowls
by Christeen Nguyen
I am Asian
I am Hungry
I wonder what my lunch will be
I see a bowl of rice
I wish I could eat it right now
I am Asian
I am hungry
I pretend not to be hungry
I feel really cranky right...
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