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Teacher-designed classrooms help students feel supported, calm and creative

Issues in Education Alexis Stark

Teachers across Kent County intentionally design their classrooms to optimize their students’ learning and sense of community.

Restorative circles create safe space at the top of the day

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Restorative morning circles in Margaret Sicilian’s classroom at Central Elementary lift barriers and open the possibility for connection, collaboration and mutual understanding.

Region I emergency coordinator now on the job

Multi Districts Riley Kelley

John Wittkowski, emergency response and safety coordinator for Region I schools, brings 28 years of law enforcement experience to his new position.

Where’s the bus? Check the app

Multi Districts Alexis Stark

Kenowa Hills is helping families stay more informed about their students’ bus routes through a new geotracking application.

Districts bring in emergency coordinator

Multi Districts Riley Kelley

School districts in Region I have come together to hire an emergency response and safety coordinator to cover each district.

He can’t tap dance or juggle, but he’s honored to be a Knight

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Zach Christian is the new principal at Kenowa Hills Middle School. SNN gets to know him in this edition of Meet Your Administrator.

Podcasts tackle the thought-provoking

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Kenowa Hills Middle School seventh-graders became writers and hosts of their own podcasts, thanks to a grant from the district’s education foundation...

Student musicians take sounds outside the classroom

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

West Michigan non-profit Project ESME brings together student musicians from different skill levels and schools to play a variety of pop, rock and film music...

Supportive friends, family & teachers made the difference

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

This recent graduate will be the first member of his immediate family to attend college...

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Grandparents and other visitors pack the house on special persons’ day

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Around 300 grandparents and other special people visited Zinser Elementary for a morning full of food, music and Model A automobiles...

Different ways to play

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

This Central Elementary kindergarten teacher celebrates her students through toys that look more like them...

Compact branches pop up outside district elementary schools

Multi Districts Alexis Stark

A group of GRCC honors students made it their mission to bring little lending libraries to Zinser, Alpine and Central elementaries...

Career expo showcases opportunities

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

A student-powered effort brought some 50 businesses, organizations, colleges/universities and branches of the military to Kenowa Hills High School...

Card club plays it forward

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Kenowa Hills Middle School students share their love of trading cards in an after school club, where they packed cards to donate to kids at Mary Free Bed Rehabilitation Hospital...

At school or home, reading is a family affair

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Alpine Elementary celebrated the last week of Reading Month by inviting families to read with their students at school...

Becoming Knights who know nutrition

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Zinser Elementary school nurse turns her passion for nutrition into a fun incentive program to encourage students to eat more fruits and vegetables...

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Northview grad is a future forest mapper

Teacher’s latest book focuses on motivation in education

Former principal returns to read, substitute teach at his old school

Fifth-grader publishes book, sequel to come

Future health care pros sample multiple career focuses

Young readers follow the recipe for perfect pound cake

Young engineers turn paper into a wild ride

Montessori students sound out the basics of bluegrass

Diving into social-emotional learning

‘The journey’s not over’: High-schoolers showcase Black history

Art contest celebrates kindness, compassion and community

Parade of Nations is celebration of diversity

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