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Learning about macromolecules via banana bread

Sparta Jane Lally
Sparta High students are learning science concepts through cooking lessons...
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Strumming through lunch breaks

Sparta Jane Lally
Members of the ukulele club meet at lunch to hone their playing skills...

Prized art gets ArtPrize treatment

Sparta Jane Lally
Sparta middle school art students showcased their talents...

Making mathematicians

Sparta Jane Lally
The district’s Early Childhood Center learning lab incorporates math across the curriculum...

Interim school chief named superintendent

Sparta Jane Lally
Joel Stoner, who has a 23-year history in the district, has taken the permanent post...

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...

Homework club buckles down

Sparta Jane Lally
Appleview Elementary students and volunteer helpers meet regularly after school to collaborate on homework...

Elementary administrative team off to strong start 

Sparta Jane Lally
SNN gets to know the heads of Ridgeview and Appleview schools...

A lifelong love of education

Sparta Jane Lally
Ridgeview Elementary assistant principal Kelley VanVliet always loved school...

No hocus pocus here

Sparta Jane Lally
Students program Ozobots to trick-or-treat in neighborhoods...

Exploring local history without modern conveniences

Sparta Jane Lally
Sparta fifth-grade students visit local schoolhouse and depot museums...

A lover of family who learns from her students

Meet Your Administrators Jane Lally
Longtime Appleview teacher takes over as assistant principal...

Fishing, scavenger hunting in the great outdoors

Sparta Jane Lally
District special education students learned to fish, went on a scavenger hunt and made fish prints during a special trip to the nature trail at Sparta Sports Park...

Enhancing education through sports

Sparta Jane Lally
Michigan native Nick Pettit named athletic director at Sparta...

New interim superintendent aims to build a culture of ‘we’

Sparta Jane Lally
Former assistant Superintendent Joel Stoner becomes interim superintendent in Sparta...

Sing it loud: school’s out for summer!

Forest Hills School News Network
In the last three Kent County school districts to close for the summer, students celebrated with songs, flag-lowering, a parade and tugs-of-war...
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