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Growing Produce from the Ground, er, Air Up

Kentwood Erin Albanese
Discovery Elementary fifth-graders are growing up –– with leafy, green plants on their Tower Garden. Bib and gourmet lettuce, basil, rainbow chard, peppers and...

Signs of Understanding

Empowering Abilities Erin Albanese
Senior Nathan Ketchpaw uses sign language with big motions –– wide arms, a broad grin. His favorite sign? "Lion," he demonstrates, running his hand...

Fifth-grade Author Keeps Turning Out New Fiction

Kentwood Erin Albanese
In colorful markers, Oummu S. Kabba neatly wrote "O.S.K," adding a smiley face inside the "O," during her book-signing event at Barnes & Noble...

Drive-up DNA Lesson Delivers STEM to School’s Front Door

Kentwood Erin Albanese
Inside a 40-footmobile classroom parked outside their school, Southwood Elementary students got to the "true core" of their food -- its basic building blocks...

Teachers’ Turn to Learn

Forest Hills Erin Albanese
This year, nearly 1,000 K-12 school leaders in 45 states and 38 countries signed up to participate in Shadow a Student Challenge. It's a...

Helping Hands for the Youngest Newcomers

Kent ISD Erin Albanese
Kentwood resident Van Cung told representatives from about a dozen local organizations what the Kent ISD early childhood program, Bright Beginnings has meant for...

Board Member’s Bywords: Grit, Growth and Giving Back

Kentwood Erin Albanese
If Kentwood Public Schools Board of Education Vice President Allen Young was standing in front of a classroom, he would tell students to never...

Reversing Academic Decline: How One School Did It

Kentwood Erin Albanese
East Kentwood High School teachers have always known that wonderful things go on inside their school. Theirs is the most diverse in the state,...

A Bridge Between Late Childhood and Young Adult

Kentwood Charles Honey
As nine Rockford Freshman Center students munched on tacos she provided, Assistant Principal Kelly Amshey threw them an open-ended question. "How are we doing to...

From Desperation to Diploma: A Somali Refugee’s Story

Classrooms for All Erin Albanese
Note from the author: I met Arafat Abdikarim Yassin last February while visiting East Kentwood High School to write about the school's refugee population....

A Narrow Escape from Death, at a High Price

Kentwood School News Network
Editor's note: The following is an excerpt from Arafat's story about his experiences in Somalia before coming to America. Read about Arafat's experience in...

‘We’re on the Right Track’

Godwin Heights Charles Honey
When Principal Tricia Mathes announced to her staff that their school had been taken off the state’s list of Priority Schools, they cheered and...

Culture Club

Kentwood Erin Albanese
With flags hoisted high and signs declaring "We Are EK" in different languages, nearly 100 district high school students gathered for a photo. It...

‘Science is Basically in Everything’

Kentwood Erin Albanese
Eighth-grader Colin Byers dipped a thermometer into the stream behind the Kentwood Ice Arena and looked at the results: 34.4 degrees Fahrenheit, a drop...

Dog Math, Tiny Folded Rectangles Make for Good Career Discovery

Kentwood Erin Albanese
There's magic in math. Just ask fifth-graders who learned top-secret information from Davenport University professors. "I could write some pretty nice stories and nobody...

‘They Want to Learn so Much’

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
High School English language teacher Edith Trumbell spends her days with students from Mexico, China, Congo, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Syria, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala...
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