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Your Dream is Our Dream

Your Dream is Our Dream: Celebrating Student Success brings you conversations with students about their dreams and the and educators who ignite and inspire them. In a new series from School News Network, students from all levels of education share in their own words and pictures how learning connects them to achieving their goals and exploring their ambitions. An initiative of Kent ISD, Your Dream is Our Dream showcases student success and how teaching and learning help make dreams come true.

Dreaming of games, politics and unity

Grand Rapids Phil de Haan

Two City Middle students are national debate champions and have big plans for the future...

Space is her final frontier

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Jennifer Gamino-Alvarez hopes to help others go into space...

To be her own boss

Lowell Beth Heinen Bell

This Lowell High School junior, a marketing student at Kent Career Tech Center, has big plans for her future...

Cars and cameras

Kelloggsville Phil de Haan

A shutterbug junior wants to open his own business and photograph the Super Bowl someday, while a fifth-grader aspires to start his own car company...

His dream: explore the world through taste

Your Dream is Our Dream Morgan Jarema

Hoping to one day own his own restaurant, Manny says his teachers helped get him where he is...

Your network’s safe with him

Kent ISD Phil de Haan

This technology-loving senior dreams of becoming a cyber security analyst...

Baker, leader, future small business owner

Your Dream is Our Dream Abigail Ham, SNN intern

Baking student Erin Mangan hopes to own her own bakery someday...

Looking fore-ward to the future

Your Dream is Our Dream Beth Heinen Bell

This series brings you conversations with students about their dreams and the educators who ignite and inspire them...

A gifted student shapes his dreams from clay and a trumpet

Your Dream is Our Dream Charles Honey

Students share their dreams and how schools help build them...

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