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Annual tradition fights discrimination with kindness

Thornapple Kellogg Hannah Lentz
Buttons sold during the week will be used to fund the group’s next outreach event, a district-wide Martin Luther King Day poetry contest...

A family tradition: school, community, teaching

Thornapple Kellogg Hannah Lentz
After making their way through the Thornapple Kellogg school system, Josh, Samuel and Rebecka Thaler are back teaching in their home district...

A Gift from Graduates

Thornapple Kellogg Hannah Lentz
The Alumni Association’s 13 board members include graduates from the 1950s to 1980s, and, this year will award its first $500 student scholarship, thanks to an endowment that has grown to more than $17,000...

Double Duty

Thornapple Kellogg Hannah Lentz
Retired Barry County officers have joined forces as a presence in the district, with student safety their number one priority...

Back to the classroom, except it’s all the classrooms

Meet Your Administrators Hannah Lentz
Attorney and financial analyst by license, educator by choice, Thornapple Kellogg’s new superintendent Rob Blitchok is ready to introduce himself to the community...

Reading on the road

Thornapple Kellogg Hannah Lentz
Susie and Timmy Doxtater were headed to the lake to go fishing, but first, they made sure their dad Cory stopped by the B.Bus so they could get new books for the week...

Community’s farm history celebrated with annual road trip

Thornapple Kellogg Hannah Lentz
As part of a long-time tradition, the district’s annual spring week includes “Farmer Day” to note the importance of agriculture to the area...

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

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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...
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