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Kenowa Hills Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

“I see now what it takes to be an engineer. The amount of ideas you have to come up with is crazy,” said one eighth-grader...

Club aims to help peers navigate post-high school options

Grand Rapids Community College Alexis Stark

The group helps peers tackle college and other post-secondary applications, apply for scholarships, answers questions and offers support...

Apple a day & making time for play

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Pathways High School students and staff ventured to Ed Dunneback & Girls Farm as a fun fall activity to foster relationships learning beyond the classroom...

College 101: Getting ahead

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Kenowa Hills High School and Grand Rapids Community College have partnered to offer students an opportunity to earn a free associate degree while still in high school...

Now, Knighthood can start even earlier

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

The new infant room at the Early Childhood Center is now open to the district’s youngest learners, and already has a waitlist...

Want to drive, cook or clean? Here are jobs for you

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Kenowa Hills Public Schools is looking to hire people for several open positions across the district including bus drivers, custodial, paraprofessional, child care, food service, and clerical...

Pivot, evolve, always keep a good attitude

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

School nurses learned alongside administrators, teachers and students amid the challenges of a most unusual school year...

Sports-music balance a challenge and a motivator

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Ben Adloff leads by being a team player...

Like ballroom dancing without a partner

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

With COVID-19 safety restrictions in place, Kenowa Hills High School allowed the show to go on by filming a live performance of “Shakespeare’s Depictions of Love”...

‘Raising kids who care’

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Zinser Elementary students created and sold artwork to friends and family and raised $2,100 to put toward a water tank in the community of Mityana, Uganda...

Your district’s summer programs at-a-glance

Kenowa Hills School News Network

Area public school districts are gearing up to provide K-12 programs this summer to address learning loss impacted by the coronavirus pandemic...

Like Wonder Woman, ‘I gotta save the world!’

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

After five years serving students and staff as a social worker at Zinser Elementary, Brooke Davis, is new director of diversity, equity and mental health services...

Making mental health awareness part of school culture

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Paint Kenowa Green is about creating safe spaces and ending stigma...

Students celebrate the beauty of multiple languages

Classrooms for All Alexis Stark

Students celebrated their Spanish-speaking heritage with International Mother Language Day at Alpine Elementary...

Creating safe spaces

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

On a freezing February morning at Pathways High School, two speakers from Michigan non-profit i understand spoke to students about the importance of mental health...

Distance learning hones collaboration, forges close connections

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Three elementary teachers share how they have learned resilience and are reimagining how they engage their students outside the traditional classroom setting...