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Students Help Others Navigate Challenges of School

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

For many students, going to school is packed with good times, learning and friends. But students with disabilities face many challenges, especially with social...

“Typical Kid” with Movie Credits, Agents and a Screen Actors Guild Card

Reading & Writing with Rademacher Tom Rademacher

By most accounts, Derek Brandon is a typical kid of 15. He's a freshman at Thornapple Kellogg High School. He's growing out of his clothes,...

Students Jump to Top in the State for Heart Disease Fundraiser

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

Inside the Lee Elementary gym the music blares and second- and third-graders work up a sweat jumping rope. Parents line the walls watching, cell...

TK Bond Request to Focus on Security, Technology

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

Enhanced security, technology upgrades and necessary maintenance are the focus of a "no frills" $6 million bond issue for Thornapple Kellogg voters May 6. A...

Mentoring Program Sees Early Success

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

Kelly Jenkins and Halaynea Shanahan didn't know each other a few months ago, but if you saw them together today, you wouldn't know it....

Students Provide a Super Service

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

Superheroes were out in force at Thornapple Kellogg High School and their tasks were many. Fleece blankets had to be made, food had to...

Learning Civic Responsibility by Asking and Doing

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

Lee Elementary is looking good, and its second graders are doing good with the help of their teacher, Nathan Fischer, after he attended a...

Students Learn the ABCs of Salmon – by Raising Them

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A is for Alevin, a newly hatched salmon. B is for big, as in King Salmon, the largest in its species. And C is for...

TK School Second in Odyssey World Finals for Creative Fairy Tale

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A tree-killing princess that’s been turned into a tree, an all-in-one-seven-dwarfs dwarf and a superhero that’s ready to solve wardrobe malfunctions at any time...

“Action” on the School Set

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

At the start of the school year, Cameron Moore, a college freshman, sent an e-mail to Jerry Robinson, Thornapple Kellogg High School's digital media...

They’re Watching You, Lansing

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

Three parents in the Thornapple Kellogg Schools district are determined to get the public's voice heard on education issues, and that's why they've formed...

Ahoy! MEAP Tests Attacked by Fourth-grade Pirates

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

Pirates stormed Page Elementary in September. Dressed in eye patches, bandanas and pirate shirts, they roamed the halls on a mission for for a...

Bullied Speaker Helps Students Overcome Bad Experiences

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

Michael Karpovich remembers his head being flushed down the toilet nearly a dozen times by bullies as a student, and he knows it continues...

Veterans’ Day – Each and Every Day

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

From an Army sergeant leaving this week to Afganistan to a World War II veteran who was at the attack on Pearl Harbor, servicemen...

TK Trombone Player Marches with the Notre Dame Band

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

Being part of the Notre Dame band the first year at college makes for a crazy-busy life, says 2012 Thornapple Kellogg High School graduate...

Bigs and Littles Find Rewarding Relationships

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

When you're in elementary school and a high schooler gives you some attention, it feels cool. Thornapple Kellogg High School students have been making...

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How creativity changes the world

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Pathways of creativity and ingenuity have tempted the larger scope of humanity since its earliest ancestors... (Student Op-Ed by Jenna Waggoner)

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