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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...

Students take action, lend voices to honor Florida school victims and plead for violence to end

Multi Districts School News Network
The number 17 served as a marker not only for moments of silence in honor of those killed, but for students’ thoughts on how to make schools safer and kinder

Teachers help teachers take it to the next level at Van Andel Education Institute

All Districts Erin Albanese
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

Michigan Teachers of the Year to speak on leadership at GVSU forum

Multi Districts Charles Honey
Michigan MTOYs Luke Wilcox and Tracy Horodyski will talk about their roles as Teachers of the Year, the importance of leadership in their schools and communities, empowering fellow staff members and helping students grow

Students on #metoo Movement: ‘It Kind of Scares Me’

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey
Freshman Ava Deschaine plays basketball and runs cross country and track for her high school. So she felt sad for the more than 150...

Almost a Teacher, Now She Helps Them All

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey
Danielle Storey leads a line of bundled-up kindergartners through the halls of Central Elementary School, to an exit where parents wait by their cars...

‘Such Good and Such Promise in Each of Them’

Kenowa Hills Charles Honey
Fourteen students form a semicircle, discussing in detail the meaning of a poem by Pablo Neruda, "I Like When You Are Quiet." Witness the teaching...

Interviewing 101 Helps Students Hone Skills

Career Exploration Charles Honey
Had it been a real job interview, Katlyn Siddall might well have been hired. In a practice interview in the high school library, Katlyn told...
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