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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 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.

‘What is your dream?’ Students interview each other

Kentwood Erin Albanese

What do students say when they interview one another about their dreams? The darndest things. Check out these responses.

She found the perfect marriage of music & helping

Kelloggsville Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Music can heal. She hopes to deliver just what the doctor ordered.

Varied interests, goals, all nurtured at school

Kent City Beth Heinen Bell

Junior Amy Sytsma is a talented mathematician and budding engineer who is also heavily involved in the creative arts. School News Network spoke with her about her dreams for the future.

‘I really want to be a teacher’

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell

Grace Kloeckner is a fifth-grader at Central Elementary School. School News Network recently talked with her to learn more about her dreams for the future and how her teachers provide inspiration.

Safety in the skies is his dream

Caledonia Alexis Stark

Fourth-grader Ryu Fleming hopes to become a pilot one day and safely fly people where they need to go.

His home is on the pitch

Byron Center Alexis Stark

Freshman Allister Allan dreams of playing soccer professionally, with a college degree to fall back on.

After taking a video production class, ‘there was no other option’

Rockford Allison Poosawtsee

This Rockford student did a 180 from pursuing medical training to becoming an aspiring filmmaker.

Pursuing the law to help those in tough places

Kent City Allison Poosawtsee

This Kent City student is planning a career in law enforcement to help women and children in need...

A dream builder

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Senior Elijah True hopes that by going into construction, he can help others achieve their dream...

Hoping to see the world through a camera lens

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

A natural talent has led Angel Vargas into a passion for photography with dreams of traveling the world...

Big dreams propel TKHS senior to business school

Thornapple Kellogg Allison Poosawtsee

Business and performance extracurriculars played a key role in prompting graduating senior Natalie Alden to fulfill her dream to study business...

Camera offers new perspective, career goal

Kelloggsville Sean Bradley

After an injury cut his soccer-playing dreams short, this senior captures sports from the sidelines...

Loves math, wants to work in medicine with children

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Senior Sarah Najar knows that the road will be long to reach her dream of being an anesthesiologist...

Welding sparks her life

Kent ISD Jane Lally

Junior Grace Kober wants to follow in her family’s footsteps and pursue work in the trades...

The goal: to help people

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

This Kent Career Tech Center student has her eye on the medical field...

Helping, ‘in any way I’m able to’

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

Savanna wants to make an impact on the world with her work, and she sees writing as the best way to make that happen...

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School News Network reports on the 20 public school districts in Kent County, which enroll more than 90,000 students. Founded in 2013, we are an editorially independent news site funded by Kent ISD, local districts and community sponsors, and powered by an experienced team of reporters, editors and photojournalists. We specialize in covering classroom teaching and learning, analyzing the many issues that enhance or discourage student success, and highlighting the education magic that happens each day in our public schools.

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‘What is your dream?’ Students interview each other

She found the perfect marriage of music & helping

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Family members and heroes honored through art project

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‘Creating a feeling of compassion & care’

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Students & grandpas connect through cards, hugs, common languages

Bolstered by many while a student, this grad now supports others

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