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Students With Visual Impairments Cook Up New Skills

Kenowa Hills Adrian Hirsch

Cookies? Check. Apple crisp? Check. Camaraderie? Check. These are the ingredients that make up the fun-filled after-school cooking class for visually impaired students from...

Computer Fields Beckon Girls to Great Careers

Kent City Erin Albanese

Rachel Bowman likes robots so much she wants to own a robotics company someday. She spends half her school day in the Information Technologies...

Saying Goodbye with a Song

Kent City Adrian Hirsch

Linda Johnson was packing up for retirement when she was called to the principal's office during her last week at Kent City Elementary. Johnson,...

Warm Feet, Warm Hearts

Grand Rapids Adrian Hirsch

While many C.A. Frost students were designing cupcakes, others were gathering socks. Sixth- through ninth-grade students held a drive that collected more than 250...

Bringing the School Along on ‘A Christmas Story’ Adventure

Kent City Adrian Hirsch

Thanks to a relationship between Kent City Elementary and Grand Rapids Civic Theatre, 179 students and family members got to attend a production of...

Young CyberArtists Click, Drag, Create

Kent City Adrian Hirsch

Learning to use a computer mouse and printer may not sound like creativity skills, but for elementary students designing action scenes and mandalas out...

Eight-year-old Combats Cold Weather for Others

Kent City Adrian Hirsch

As third-grader Addisyn Robinson traveled with her mom to the hospital to see her grandfather, she repeatedly saw homeless people on the street. She...

Showing Respect for Community’s Veterans

Forest Hills Charles Honey

School districts across Kent ISD marked Veterans Day in ways big and small on Wednesday. Here’s a sample of how a few schools honored...

Cooking Up Support for Library Improvements

Kent City School News Network

Chatting was far down the list of priorities for Jack Swanson on a recent Saturday morning. The retired Kent City Community Schools principal/teacher arrived at...

One for All, All for One

Kent City School News Network

Morgan Ogden puzzled over what her family crest should include. She knew it needed to contain an animal that demonstrated strength, colors that conveyed...

Journaling, Imaginations Make Waves of Summertime Learning

Classrooms for All School News Network

Dante Botello may never have entertained the notion of caring for a pet monkey had it not been for his Spanish Elementary teacher, who...

Summer Migrant Program Stimulates New Generation of Possibilities

Classrooms for All School News Network

While scores of area children can be heard frolicking in the summer sun, an all together different buzz resonates inside the district's middle school...

Superintendent: ‘This is a Revolution. We Will be ‘The Region That Reads’

Kent City Erin Albanese

West Michigan teachers and administrators recently heard the five common practices that lead to success in reading, and many are ready to implement those...

About to Graduate? What Do You Know About Renter’s Insurance?

Kent City School News Network

2017 Kent City Grads Must Pass Personal Finance Class

Time-Honored Lessons Passed Down from Older Students to Younger Ones

Kent City School News Network

Just like spelling and math skills, at some point we were all taught how to behave. Most were taught that yelling and screaming in school...

Student Rep Sees School Board Service As Preparation

Kent City School News Network

Parker Fritz is one of those guys you just know is going places. That's why when the Kent City Community Schools Board of Education decided...

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