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Maranda Welcomes Area Teachers for Back-to-School Advice

Kelloggsville Adrian Hirsch

WOTV4's Maranda Where You Live program recently invited four teachers from Kent ISD schools to discuss their favorite things about being a teacher and...

Kentwood Students Make Gains in Learning While Having Fun in ARCH Summer Program

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Soon-to-be fifth graders Amaree James, Jerreh Saidykhan and Jordan Steffen dug for a buried clue in the dusty dirt of Meadowlawn Elementary School’s baseball...

Band Teacher of the Year Challenges Students Beyond Typical Level

Kentwood Erin Albanese

There was a happy vibe in band teacher Jim Ross' Pinewood Middle School band room. While playing clarinets, flutes, drums, saxophones, trombones and other...

Lookin’ Good: Middle School Students Learn How to Tie a Tie from Local Professionals

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Local hip-hop artist George Moss demonstrated how to tie a tie to Crestwood Middle School students. "Shwoo," he said, flipping the long end of the...

Alternative Students Challenged to “Be Phenomenal”

Kentwood Erin Albanese

If you can survive on the streets, you can survive in school and, later, in the marketplace. If you don't, there will be very...

The Supes

Byron Center Tom Rademacher

When there's time – and usually there's not – Dan Takens will pilot his car the 10 or 11 miles from his office at...

More Than 1,000 Dads Bring Kentwood Elementary Children to School for Event

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Challenger Elementary first-grade student Omar Aganovic thought about how it feels to have his father, Sanel Aganovic, with him at school for breakfast. Omar...

African-American Male Mentors Read to Kentwood Students, Show Them Possibilities

Kentwood Erin Albanese

For African-American male community leaders who visit Kentwood elementary schools to read to students, the hour they devote each week is about much more...

Students, Teachers to Converge for Annual Livestream for Education

Kent ISD Erin Albanese

For Linda Olejnik, attending her first Livestream for Education was like getting "a creative shot in the arm for teaching" in her American literature...

Iditarod Comes to Life as Students Meet Sled Dogs, Cheer on Mushers

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Pulled by lead dog Storm and a team of six other Siberian Huskies, Endeavor Elementary second grader Malachi Geemes rode atop a dog sled...

Teaching Young Leaders: Freshmen Leave Class More Confident, Compassionate

Kentwood Erin Albanese

For Anaya Liptrot's final project in the Teen Leadership class at East Kentwood's Freshman Center, she described job shadowing at a nursing home, but...

National Art Honor Society Impact Reaches Beyond Classroom

Kentwood Erin Albanese

With the goal of winning money for the school's art program, East Kentwood High School National Art Honor Society Club members recently worked in...

… And More on the Way?

Kentwood Charles Honey

Chinese students enrolled at East Kentwood and Rockford high schools may be joined by more Weiming Education Group students next school year. Bernie Lu, Arthur...

Chinese Students in Kentwood and Rockford: So Far, So Good

Kentwood Charles Honey

Editor's note: Ten Chinese students are studying at East Kentwood and Rockford high schools this year, under a partnership with Weiming Education Group. After...

MSU Basketball Player with Autism Helps Students Understand

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Former Michigan State University basketball player Anthony Ianni knows something about being told he “can’t.” When Ianni was 4-years-old, doctors and specialists informed his parents...

Kentwood Eye Doctor Equips Students with Free Glasses

Kentwood Erin Albanese

After her glasses broke, Sheliah Harris-Spencer was going without them, playing basketball and doing classwork with very poor vision. The Kentwood Freshman Campus student-athlete, who...

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