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High school students spread kindness through service to larger community

Student Leaders Hannah Lentz

From volunteering at nursing homes to working with students at local elementary schools and making stickers for patients at Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital, students were kept busy during the sixth annual day of service...

Odyssey into a land of duct-taped students and super glue

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

Students spend weeks or months preparing for the Michigan State Odyssey of the Mind finals held mid-March at Thornapple Kellogg Schools. They use imagination and brain power to create performance skits that fit various themes

Wyoming, EGR and TK superintendents announce retirements

Multi Districts School News Network

Tom Reeder, superintendent of Wyoming Public Schools, and Sara Shubel, superintendent of East Grand Rapids Public Schools, announced their retirements last week, after Tom Enslen of Thornapple Kellogg announced his last month

Teachers help teachers take it to the next level at Van Andel Education Institute

All Districts Erin Albanese

Mastermind is a group of West Michigan teachers, principals, social workers and other educators who have met monthly at Van Andel Education Institute this school year, working together to overcome challenges common to many of them

‘Together, we’re educating an awesome child’

Rockstar Teachers Jaye Beeler

“It’s very important that they enjoy being here. I’m trying to capture that first-day-of-school enthusiasm every day.” - Rockstar Teacher Brittany Brown

It Draws, It Spells, It Colors, at Touch of a Tablet

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler

Moving at lightning speed, second-grader Logan Shank beat his teammates Exley Roon and Emma Bowman to the Sphero, a miniature robotic orb, effectively becoming...

Star Fleet to Mission Control: Egg Incoming!

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler

At STARBASE Battle Creek, located on the Air National Guard Base, the four-girl team of Page Elementary fifth-graders knew the landing was a one-shot...

‘One Simple Thing Can Spread Kindness’

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler

The Thornapple River bustled through the Middleville dam as six high school students cleared brush, scraggly trees, a carpet of bristly grasses and unwanted...

The First Thanksgiving, Through the Eyes of Its Children

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler

In Michelle DeVries's first-grade class at McFall Elementary School, Lilee Grinnel and Braylee Tep inspected the Indian corncobs soaking in water –- which DeVries...

College Savings Gets Kickstart from Community

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler

For Case DeBoer and his family, saving for college has already started with a $50 community investment in his post-secondary education. Perhaps the 7-year-old McFall...

Dia de los Muertos a Celebration of Life

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

Schools throughout Kent ISD this week studied and celebrated Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead), a a Nov. 2 holiday to honor the...

Challenged Students Find Freedom on Horseback

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler

Five-year-old Desi Golnek – fitted in a riding helmet - sat astride Scooter, with volunteer David Drombowski holding the horse's bridle and Thornapple Kellogg...

From Schoolyard Garden to School Plate

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler

At the middle school, a learning garden designed by resource room teacher Amy Forman hums along with flat-leaf parsley, Thai basil and burpless cucumber,...

Two Teens Learn Each Other’s Language, and More

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler

In late June, Eryn Schell left her small community along the Thornapple River to live in Shiga Prefecture, Japan for nearly three weeks. Eryn...

Athlete, Goat Farmer, ‘Chill’ Encourager

Meet Your Administrators Jaye Beeler

School: Thornapple Kellogg Middle Other positions you have held in education: Health/PE teacher for 12 years. My first year was at Grand Rapids Public Schools,...

A Riches of Rookies

Thornapple Kellogg Jaye Beeler

Thornapple Kellogg Schools -- all 125 square miles of this rural district -- is feeling happy, hopeful and mostly healthy, says Superintendent Tom Enslen....

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