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Teaching Children in Poverty: A New Series from SNN

Kent ISD Charles Honey

Tuesday, School News Network launches a continuing series on poverty in the schools and how it affects students’ learning. We will examine not only...

Special Ed Director Receives Distinguished Award

Kent ISD School News Network

There’s a rumor circulating around Kent ISD that Special Education Director Laurie VanderPloeg has a couple of identical sisters. Not just one, but two. “But...

“Techies” Convene to Share Tricks at EdTech Rally, Learn from Each Other

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

Technology specialists from districts across the region recently spent a day together at Kent ISD for workshops and picking each other’s brain to find...

The Lost Decade

How's School Today? Ron Koehler

Now he tells us. In an extraordinarily introspective interview with The Bridge online magazine, state superintendent Mike Flanagan recently acknowledged Michigan was “10 years behind”...

Educators Aim to Edify Students with New Data-Driven Program

Kent ISD Charles Honey

Students Josh Bolter and Julia Vu were about to tackle an ecology project in their biology class at Kent Innovation High. Before they got...

Real World Education at The Tech Center

Kent ISD School News Network

Kent Career Technical Center offers real life learning to prepare high school students for careers. The center is part of the Kent Intermediate School...

Tech Center Culinary Program Featured on Maranda and in Partnerships Award

Kent ISD School News Network

A unique partnership between Kent Career Tech Center and Ferris State University (FSU) that provides high school culinary students with college courses, was honored...

Parents’ Pride Mingles with Hopes for Higher Ed

Kent ISD School News Network

Pride in their children and hope they might be the first in their families to go to college, brought area families to the 2nd...

Kent ISD and Lowell Rock Orchestra Selected for Arts Advocacy Award

Kent ISD School News Network

Student musicians joined educators on stage Oct. 23 as State Farm representatives present a check to Kent ISD to fund the Rock Orchestra Arts...

Information Technology Systems Increase Schools Effectiveness

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

Handwritten forms, spelling errors, manual entry, permission for access, even lost information. These are some of the issues that plagued old special education record-keeping...

Students Prove Skills at State and National Competitions

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

Kent Career Tech Center students proved they're ahead of the curve by placing high in a variety of educational and skill based competitions during...

Public Education Advocate Stresses Need for Schools to Support Each Other

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

Improving the perception of public education requires being a champion for all schools, said national advocate John Draper. "If you are sitting in a teacher's...

“Please Sir, I Want Some More”

How's School Today? Ron Koehler

From our readers: “(SNN provides) First-hand accounts of how districts & staff are serving students and how student experiences are helping them grow and mature...

Teachers Challenged to Question Assumptions about Students in Poverty

Kent ISD Charles Honey

When Paul C. Gorski wants to illustrate stereotypes about poor people, he looks no further than his own grandmother. Though she grew up poor in...

Maranda Visits Kent Area Grads With Grit

Kent ISD Adrian Hirsch

This spring, School News Network focused on a number of students who graduated despite unusually difficult circumstances and hardships. School News Netwrok has partnered...

Immersion in Watershed Helps Teachers Create Student Projects

Kent ISD School News Network

Susan Gray peers into a microscope that reveals the miniscule habitat of algae and phytoplankton culled from the depths of Muskegon Lake. Gray, a 5th...

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