Michigan art teacher of year makes all subjects ‘artful’
Art teacher Adrienne DeMilner brings art into all subjects and areas at East Kentwood Freshman Campus and out into the community. She was recently awarded 2018 Michigan Art Educator of the Year and Secondary Art Teacher of the Year by the Michigan Art Education Association...
Her overarching goal: to teach that American ideals are worth striving for
Rebecca Debowski witnesses and guides her students as they learn to look at things in a more nuanced way and respect what one another have to say, from every perspective...
‘She will fill your bucket if you are empty’
This art teacher provides a solid skill base, then encourages her students to infuse their work with elements of their own lives. And she shares her own, which she says creates a safe space for them to reflect...
She chose music over medicine, and her students are glad she did
Wendy Tenney Tenney is one of 10 Michigan educators who were named as 2018-19 Regional Teachers of the Year...
Director takes joy in teaching student musicians, ‘to see what they can do and...
Band director Greg Wells grew up as part of Northview’s proud tradition, in a family of music educators, and feels honored to carry it on
“I realize what a privilege it is”
Rockstar Teachers Series: There's just something about certain teachers that draws students to them in droves and keeps them checking in years, even decades later. Here, we highlight some of these rockstars of the classroom, in a series proudly...
‘My Class is More Than What I Teach Them’
At 7:45 a.m. daily, teacher Terry Blevins begins the day with his 30 audiovisual broadcasting students tooling about a warren of separate rooms stuffed with computer screens, Canon cameras, teleprompters, professional video cameras on pedestals and video monitors. In...
‘The Classroom is Why I Wake Up in the Morning’
Eighth-grader Aaron Souter touched an iPad screen to maneuver a sphero along a stairwell floor, while classmate Ryan Reszka constructed an obstacle course of ramps for the plastic robot to jump.
The coding skills students need to pull off the...
‘Such Good and Such Promise in Each of Them’
Fourteen students form a semicircle, discussing in detail the meaning of a poem by Pablo Neruda, "I Like When You Are Quiet."
Witness the teaching of David Lyons. He lets them talk for 45 minutes, with hardly a pause, about...
She Collects Books, and Lets Students Choose Them
English teacher Katie Sluiter's Wyoming Junior High classroom is a testament to the power of words, in the books eighth-graders eagerly grab from her library and in the writing she did to get those 1,000 popular works onto her...
After Auto Industry, He Chose ‘Noble Career’ of Teaching
David Staublin has been known to poke fun at his diminished hearing. Having grown up in Charlevoix, he said, he attended "a lot of concerts" at Castle Farms, a '70s and '80s mecca for rock 'n' roll.
"And I think...
‘I show them another way, and another way, and another way’
A bank was robbed. Fifteen suspects – all middle-school staff members – had their mugshots taken, each holding a dollar bill up to their forehead. Algebra students were notified.
The CSI team was waiting on video surveillance to confirm the...
Respect and Relationships Build Bonds with Students
On a recent Wednesday afternoon, Bill Kennedy's AP Government class kicks off as it does on most days: with video news footage. Today it's a story about a Defense Department study buried by the Pentagon that found $125 billion...
He Pushes Students to Excel, with Pushups and ‘Geronimo!’
When it comes to encouraging students to give it their all, band director Troy Anderson says take the leap and yell "Geronimo!"
By that he means hold nothing back. Blow those horns and pound those drums with gusto.
"Why are you...
Fast Talking, Storm Chasing, Globe-Toting Teacher
The first thing you notice in Dave Carmichael's weather and science class is that he often carries around a globe, using it as a prop to explain intertropical convergence, polar jet streams and pressure belts.
The second thing you notice...
‘I Hope They Feel That I Love Them’
Libby Metiva’s seventh-graders were spread out in her classroom and the adjoining hallway, working in small groups on the answer to a science experiment: Why did an egg immersed in corn syrup shrivel?
Some students just weren’t getting it. Metiva...
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