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...
Necessity, Not Luxury
Art teacher Amber Warren sees the difference in students who have had experience in art and those who haven't. The latter have little faith in their artistic abilities, she said. "They are not confident."
After offering art at reduced levels...
Latino Club Members Celebrate Culture, Share Concerns about Future
For Hispanic high school students in the new Latino Student Union, there are many ways to relate to each other. They enjoy shared traditions and values: "tamales, Dia De Los Muertos, big families, music, dancing," lists sophomore Joshua Casas....
New AP Civics Class Tackles Tough, Timely Topics
As a teacher at one of the most diverse high schools in Michigan, Katie Baechler knows many of her students and their families are affected by injustice and discrimination. She thinks that's a reason to get them talking about...
What’s in the Water? Students Wade in to Learn
Southeast Kelloggsville teacher Lynnea Roon lifted up a vial containing water that had turned abright blue, taken from a portion of Buck Creek that flows through the schoolyard.
"That's a lot of phosphate!" a fifth-grader observed.
Next she showed a vial...
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