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  Comstock Park
  Team builder, champion shaper wants athletes to be their best
  Karen Gentry
  She comes to the district after five years as women’s basketball coach at Ferris State University...
  Caledonia
  Two-stepper, avid reader owes career to her first-grade teacher
  Alexis Stark
  Jenn Shultz is the new Emmons Lake Elementary School principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet Your Administrators...
  Lowell
  Just one fire ant in a flood
  Beth Heinen Bell
  Craig Veldman is the new principal for Cherry Creek Elementary School. School News Network gets to know him better – and learns a little bit about fire ants, too – in this edition of Meet Your Administrator...
  Comstock Park
  This student leader aspires to inspire
  Karen Gentry
  His advice: seize all opportunities, reach out to others...
Arts & Academics
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  Grandville
  ‘These kids just really want to be singing’
  Beth Heinen Bell
  Determined to bring back choir in a safe manner, this teacher made changes to her classes based on the latest scientific research and best practices by fellow teachers...
  State of the Arts
  Marching on
  Erin Albanese
  The plan is to continue regular rehearsals and to host a number of community events, to be determined...
  Bridging the Talent Gap
  Virtual career exploration a hit with students
  Morgan Jarema
  The district helped shape the online program, which is now being used to varying degrees by a handful of area schools...
  Rockford
  Celebrating senior singers with a final concert, virtually
  Charles Honey
  Over 120 choral students in grades 9-12 will join voices in a virtual choir to celebrate the graduations of about 45 senior singers, in a prerecorded concert to be posted on the Rockford Choirs YouTube channel...
Issues in Education
- All Homeless, with Homework How's School Today?Places of Refuge School 2.0 Special Education The Burden of Poverty Youth Mental Health
  Wyoming
  Bus drivers work as daytime cleaners during pandemic
  Erin Albanese
  It’s also a plus to have familiar faces around school...
  Grandville
  ‘These kids just really want to be singing’
  Beth Heinen Bell
  Determined to bring back choir in a safe manner, this teacher made changes to her classes based on the latest scientific research and best practices by fellow teachers...
  Forest Hills
  Teaching from a distance: ‘they have to learn to be patient’
  Morgan Jarema
  Lana Tran, a 26-year district teacher, is in her regular classroom this year, but behind a locked door. Her 18 students are at home, their parents having chosen distance learning...
  Godwin Heights
  ‘Ner-cited’ to be back in person
  Joanne Bailey-Boorsma
  After spending the first couple weeks in virtual school, fifth-grader Jakiyah Johnson said she knew as she entered through the doors of North Godwin Elementary on Sept. 14 that this year was going to be great...

Home Profiles of Students, Staff, Teachers Meet the Future

Meet the Future

Leaving a Lasting Legacy

Meet the Future Janice Holst

Sparta High School senior credited with multiple advances in school’s technology programming...

‘One person can change so much for so many’

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

'I think people need to recognize there’s something greater than themselves at stake'...

He mixes melodies, scratches records, creates digital music

Cedar Springs Cris Greer

Cedar Springs junior and DJ Martin Yakes plans for a career in music...

He loves welding, building new things & fixing older things

Meet the Future Charles Honey

As a child he loved building things with Legos and wood, but as he got older he found working with metal to be even cooler...

‘Unity is always important’

Meet the Future Morgan Jarema

Sharing about his Hindu faith with his peers and others is important to this high school freshman, who has plenty more going on...

Plant whisperer, reptile rescuer, amphibian aficionado

Meet the Future Morgan Jarema

Creative, innovative, imaginative ... Many of today's students are all that and more in a vast variety of interest areas. This series features students with exceptional and unusual gifts...

Trio of peers cast in Civic Theatre production of ‘Frozen Jr.’

Meet the Future Erin Albanese

Byron Center High School students and friends Alexa Wollney, Xavier Turner and Abbie Westers all landed major roles in the Grand Rapids Civic Theatre musical ‘Frozen Jr.’ ...

This musician’s swan song is sure to be just his start

Meet the Future Erin Albanese

After embracing cello instruction, East Kentwood High School senior passes huge music milestones, looks ahead to college...

Hooked on history and gifted in writing, senior publishes paper on PBB crisis

Forest Hills Morgan Jarema

Eastern High School senior Claire Parish’s National History Day article on the 1970s PBB crisis is in the current issue of Michigan History magazine...

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