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Life lessons link student to success

Kenowa Hills Hannah Lentz
The TrueSuccess program focuses on encouraging strong character values to improve behavior and literacy skills...

Learning about Korea off the book, from one who knows

Kenowa Hills Hannah Lentz
Entertainment personality Derek Stelma shares his knowledge of Korean history, culture, politics and current events with Kenowa Hills High School students...

Learning on the job provides students pathways to the future

Kenowa Hills Hannah Lentz
Students enrolled at Kenowa Hills Pathways High School have the opportunity to take on internships in the Grand Rapids community before graduation for the first year...

Walking through the ‘door of opportunity’

Classrooms for All Hannah Lentz
Wyoming high school students Mounahinde (Terry) Almame and Rohim Mohammed visited Lisa Monroe and Jodi VanDam’s fifth-grade class to talk about their experiences as refugees...

Turning the (multiplication) tables

Godwin Heights James Harger
The Michigan Mathematics Educators (MichME) initiative is changing the way math is taught in West Michigan schools, one teacher and classroom at a time. After four years, the program has rewired the way math is taught by more than 250 educators and administrators...

In mixed millage results, approvals for five districts but setback for one

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While five local school districts won tax request approvals from voters, a defeat in Caledonia will cost the district more than $150,000 in revenue...

Six school districts seek tax approvals on Nov. 6 ballot

Multi Districts James Harger
Voters in six Kent County school districts will be asked to vote on school tax proposals that can be found on the second page of their ballot Nov. 6...

Kenowa Hills requests override to restore millage on Nov. 6 ballot

Kenowa Hills Hannah Lentz
Kenowa Hills Public Schools will make an appearance on the Nov. 6 ballot for an operating millage proposal on non-homestead properties...

Rocking out with the cops, ’70s style

Kenowa Hills Hannah Lentz
Kenowa Hills orchestra students team up with the Grand Rapids Police Department band to rock out at Rosa Parks Circle...

Keeping a close watch on doors, listening closely to students

Kenowa Hills Hannah Lentz
New security improvements were part of the district’s $55 million bond passed in 2016, and weekly student meetings are part of the high school routine...

Nurturing the art of concept mastery

Kenowa Hills Hannah Lentz
A new face will be making his way around Kenowa Hills Public Schools this year thanks to funding from the Michigan Department of Education...

Fringe benefits of top test scores: bagels and the principal’s desk

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey
Three Central Elementary pupils got a taste of what academic achievement can bring, when they were treated to breakfast at Panera Bread by their principals...

How learning works here: teachers do less, students more

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey
It’s all part of Gradual Release of Responsibility, an instruction method designed to gradually turn over more work on learning from the teacher to the student...

The art of using talent to do good

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey
Jen Rykse’s second-grade art class created boldly colored pictures of women carrying water baskets on their heads, which they will sell to family and friends to help African families have access to clean wells...

Want to build cars someday? OK, let’s start with algorithms

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey
Students in Paige Carleton’s classroom at Alpine Elementary School learned the first steps in a new effort this semester to reach all Kenowa Hills elementary students with STEM: science, technology, engineering and math

Family ties help students bring historical Americans to life

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey
Central Elementary fifth-graders took on the roles of famous Americans for one night, and raised over $1,000 for charitable causes in the process. Students researched...
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