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‘Through Every Sense of the Word’ Garden Will Help Youngsters

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Hamilton Early Childhood Elementary Center special education teachers Julie Gaines and Sue Farnham recognize when their preschoolers are overwhelmed, need a break or could...

East Kentwood Teacher Named Among Nation’s Best in Science and Math

Kentwood Charles Honey

East Kentwood High School math teacher Luke Wilcox is one of only 108 math and science teachers in the U.S. selected to receive the...

Hallway-long Mural Honors Students, Recovering Principal

Kentwood Erin Albanese

In honor of East Kentwood High School students and Principal John Keenoy, who is battling cancer, art students recently unveiled a huge mural that...

Students Hatch ‘Sea Monkeys’ to Feed Fish in Science Classrooms

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Jonathon Haskill peered into the microscope at minuscule eggs as he described how he and his classmates have tested again and again the right...

‘You Can Be a Victim or a Victor,’ Homeless Coordinator Tells Teens

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Conversations between Aliya Armstrong and her students usually begin with the same question: "How are you doing?" For the students who show up in Armstrong's...

Students Cheer up Ill Teen with ‘Happy’ Lip Dub

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Cheering up a sick teenager recently involved a very happy project by Explorer Elementary fifth-graders. The Kentwood Public Schools students hung from monkey bars, sang...

Students Evaluate Themselves at Parent-Teacher Conferences

Kentwood Erin Albanese

During spring conferences at Kentwood Public Schools' Bowen Elementary School, fifth-grader Mia Johnson told her mother, Stephanie Mitchell, what she loves about school, her...

Student Leaders Dish Out Help at God’s Kitchen

Kentwood Erin Albanese

There's more to leadership than being in charge or leading a group, said Crossroads Alternative High School students as they scrubbed tables, prepared food...

Science Comes Alive with Community Engineers, Programmers, Experts

Kentwood Erin Albanese

From the science behind a beautiful smile, to forces of flight and how liquid nitrogen works, Kentwood Public Schools elementary students got see, hear,...

High School Tour Shows Girls Why STEM is Fun

Kentwood Erin Albanese

East Kentwood High School senior Jada Haynes peeled back the external layers of skin from a dead frog, showing fifth-grade student Lianna Newbeck its...

Learning Leadership through Volunteering, Competing

Kentwood Erin Albanese

For East Kentwood High School seniors, serving residents cake and ice cream for Christmas at the Grand Rapids Home for Veterans was much more...

$$ and Sense: Middle School Students Operate Bank

Kentwood Erin Albanese

When it comes to crunching numbers, Valleywood Middle School eighth-grader Kristin Crumley is ready to help make things add up for her peers. Psyched for...

Nonprofit Helps Students Boost Test Scores, Confidence Through Free Private Tutoring

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Townline Elementary School fourth-grader Kadyn Toris has made huge gains in reading since he began receiving private tutoring at Streams of Hope. Since second grade,...

Girls Only! STEM Event Shows Students Possibilities in Male-Dominated Fields

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Using a procedure involving test tubes, funnels and cheesecloths, Kentwood Public Schools fifth-grade girls separated light pink, mushy blobs from smushed strawberries.“Oooh, it feels...

Whodunit? Freshman Piece Together Decades Old Mystery

Kentwood Erin Albanese

The suspects left puzzle pieces: footprints and fingerprints around the bodies outside the Slater-Morrill Shoe Company. East Kentwood Freshman Campus students eyed the evidence in...

Governor Visits Kentwood, Talks About Early Education Investment

Kentwood Erin Albanese

The state's investment into early childhood education programs has resulted in 830 more children in Greater Grand Rapids attending tuition-free preschool this year compared...

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