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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.

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...

‘I can’t imagine doing anything else’

Northview Morgan Jarema

This Northview Next Career Center grad discovered a new passion his senior year and landed a good job right out of high school...

Paging Dr. Lohany

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

After moving from Honduras to the United States in 2019, eighth-grader Lohany Castron Gavarrete has a dream of providing help to those in need...

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...