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‘The Whole District is a Family’

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Thirty-three new teachers and 22 support staff members, including food service positions, bus drivers and paraprofessionals, are getting to know district students this month. It's...

Way Beyond ABC’s: Kindergartners Master a Growing List of Academic Skills

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Byron Center’s Brown Elementary School kindergarten students are seated on a carpet in a big circle fronting a white board. They are making sense...

Is Play Still a Kindergarten Expectation?

Byron Center Erin Albanese
Ask any parent of a dinosaur lover who can identify an Apatosaurus atage 3 if learning occurs during play, and the answer is an...

Districts go Three-for-Three on Tax Requests

Byron Center Charles Honey
Voters' decisive approvals of tax renewal requests Tuesday will provide crucial ongoing support of day-to-day operations in two Kent ISD districts, as well as...

Wyoming Public Schools Look for Support Tues.

Wyoming Erin Albanese
The Wyoming Public Schools 10-year non-homestead operating millage, a 18-mill operating levy, is up for renewal on the Tuesday, Aug. 2 ballot. The tax is...

Art of Kids Helping Kids is Food for All

Wyoming Erin Albanese
As Oriole Park Elementary fourth-grader Adam Lagerway painted a cardboard carrot, second-grader Allie Evans thought about how a local organization feeds hungry students. "Six...

Teaching French Not a Language But a Lifestyle

Rockstar Teachers Erin Albanese
As a Crock-Pot of beef bourguignon simmered, high school students in Amy Wood's class took time developing their palates for Parisian food. With a hearty...

Sniffing Out the News is Elementary

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Gladiola Elementary School students sat around a table and discussed what lead -- that's journalistic jargon for introduction -- would be best for this...

‘I’ll Saw this Wood Up – I’m Not Scared of It’

East Grand Rapids School News Network
From the courtroom to the archery range and beyond, a quartet of female high school students are breaking into fields dominated by males. Two Kent...

The High School Robotics Team That Could

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Compare the high school's Demons FIRST Robotics team's $10,000 budget to other schools' teams that have as much as $85,000 to draw from. Compare...

Goodbye to Lecture-based Science

Godwin Heights Erin Albanese
Wyoming Intermediate School teacher Janet Norman's sixth-grade students brainstormed during science class. They considered: What kind of packaging is strong enough for a drone...

Butterflies, Borrowing Books Part of New Life

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Parkview Elementary first- and second-graders Erik and Isaac Alfaro spotted monarch caterpillars on milkweed plants at Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, in Grand...

Seniors to Sophomores: ‘Don’t Repeat Our Mistakes’

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Don't procrastinate. Learn to manage your time. Do your homework. Work on getting and keeping your grades up. Those were words of advice from high...

Robots Take Over Schools for State, World Qualifiers

East Grand Rapids Charles Honey
Four Kenowa Hills students surrounded a box of wires, wheels and pulleys they called Judy, making last-minute adjustments. They had spent six weeks putting...

Before-school Gym Builds Bodies and Brainpower

Wyoming Erin Albanese
In a game of real-life Hungry, Hungry Hippos, middle school students wheeled out on scooters to grab tennis balls from a basket. Before that, the 40...

So Who Is the Student?

Northview Charles Honey
School let out a while ago, but third-grader Tyler Clinton is good and ready to read. His tutor, Aquinas College student Jason Turner, has...
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