Students restore greenhouse for healthy food, tranquil space
Students from a new health and wellness class helped transform a long-neglected greenhouse into a place providing healthy food and quiet reflection...
A creature to comfort students: ‘She brings me happiness’
At North Rockford Middle School, a trained counseling assistance dog is helping students manage their stress, focus on their work and feel better about themselves...
He loves welding, building new things & fixing older things
As a child he loved building things with Legos and wood, but as he got older he found working with metal to be even cooler...
Student leaders recognized with scholarships
Three area high school students were awarded the $500 Helen Claytor Achievement Scholarship last month at the YWCA’s 2019 Tribute Awards ceremony...
Most districts allow phones, but with restrictions
An informal School News Network survey of public school districts in Kent County besides Forest Hills showed cell-phone use is generally not permitted in elementary schools, and only allowed under strictly defined conditions in middle and high schools...
On being an empathetic ear
Ben Sorota read a School News Network article about a group at another school, which led him to start a group of his own...
State honors bus driver for caring service to students: ‘They’re my friends’
Russ Clark was selected from 255 nominees statewide for his caring and skilled ferrying to and from school of students with cognitive impairments...
Teaching history as history is happening
In Bill Crane’s 26 years of teaching U.S. history at Rockford High School, rarely has the subject been so immediately relevant to his students’ lives...
‘Their absolute best’
After a nearly flawless season, the Kent City High School Marching Band brought home the school’s first state championship, while the Rockford Marching Band won top honors for the third straight year...
Students learn about nature’s creatures up close at Zoo Lab
Follow the fourth graders of Rockford’s Roguewood Elementary School on their weeklong program at John Ball Zoo Lab, a zoo-conducted educational program for area school districts...
Childhood sports nut, always ready to rise up for children
Mindy McGinn is the new Lakes Elementary School principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet the Principal...
Creating a picture of community and kindness
Students’ drawings were incorporated by artist Mary Bent-Buist into a mural expressing a moving message: 'One kind word can change someone’s entire story'...
State superintendent tours classrooms and new learning center
State Superintendent Michael Rice recently learned about learning Rockford style, in classrooms at Roguewood Elementary School and the Creative Teaching and Learning Center...
Runner, reader, singer and learner, all while having fun
Teya Cotter is the new principal of Roguewood Elementary School...
A creature to comfort students: ‘She brings me happiness’
At North Rockford Middle School, a trained counseling assistance dog is helping students manage their stress, focus on their work and feel better about themselves...
Not one, but two local high school bands to play Detroit Jazz Fest
The pair of West Michigan jazz bands will be two of just six high school ensembles to play at the internationally renowned four-day festival, in its 40th year...
Motor City Nostalgia Takes ‘Best of Show’
Rockford High School senior Kelli LeSarge made her school proud – and won a $500 scholarship for herself – with her award-winning poster at the North American International Auto Show in Detroit. Kelli's poster of a snazzy classic convertible...
Roguewood Runners Raise Funds and Win Pumpkins
Editor’s note: A 5K “Pumpkin Run” recently was held at Rockford’s Roguewood Elementary to raise money for the parent-teacher organization. Roguewood fifth-graders Reagan Zainea, Morgan Pelak, Sophia Nelson, Corbin Herrington and Kylie Frost filed this report.
Roguewood’s first annual 5K...
Student TV Broadcasters Take Top Honors in Michigan
An impressive mix of news stories, current events features and public service recently earned the Rockford High School video production program top honors from the Michigan Association of Broadcasters. The program, “Beyond the Rock,” was named the 2015 High...
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