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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....

A Heaping Harvest of Fun

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

Editor's note: This is a personal commentary by Linda Odette, a School News Network reporter who covers Thornapple Kellogg Schools "Hey, how did a tomato...

Students Make it All in Makerspace Room

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

The words a mother painted in big letters on the Lee Elementary makerspace room's wall told the story of the room best. "Passion. Discover....

Today’s Graduates Meet Tomorrow’s Rock Stars

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

Graduates parading down the halls of elementary and middle schools in their district has become a tradition at some schools, and Thornapple Kellogg High...

Dear Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy

Thornapple Kellogg Student Showcase School News Network

Editor's note: Following is Katie Marentette's letter to Leo Tolstoy, for which she won the state award for the Library of Congress Letters About...

A Letter to Leo Wins Library of Congress Award

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

Katie Marentette wrote a letter to Leo Tolstoy last fall and kind of forgot about it -- until she found out it won the...

Group Collaboration Produces Surprising Sources

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

When innovation, collaboration, reading, language and writing all can be taught in a single project, it's a win-win for both teachers and students. That's...

‘Weeees’ Sure Are Fun, but Business is Hard

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

A woodshop project can be much more than making something out of wood. A recent enterprise by three students taught them a business lesson...

Mind Sports Roundup

Forest Hills School News Network

Editor's note: Academic competition season is upon us! Each week School News Network will be running roundups of events including Odyssey of the Mind,...

Sneaky Guitars, Snooty Otters Make for Good Reading

Thornapple Kellogg Linda Odette

An author who visited Lee Elementary recently didn't just inspire students to put drawings of doughnuts with sprinkles on hallway walls, she made them...

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How creativity changes the world

Caledonia Student Showcase School News Network

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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