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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. 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. Your Dream is Our Dream showcases student success and how teaching and learning help make dreams come true.

You can also listen to many of these students in their own voice via the Your Dream is Our Dream podcast, hosted by WGVU Public Media.

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...

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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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.

From struggling to role model, thanks to strong teacher support

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Library learning includes ‘space, the eclipse and all things astrological’

Book battle promotes literacy, teamwork

Future health care pros sample multiple career focuses

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High school journalists provide behind-the-scenes look at news production

Basketball team unites students, promotes inclusion

His heart is in the health care field

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