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‘They Want to Learn so Much’

Godfrey-Lee Erin Albanese
High School English language teacher Edith Trumbell spends her days with students from Mexico, China, Congo, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Syria, El Salvador, Honduras, Guatemala...

High Expectations for EL Students

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Letter by letter, fourth-grader David Espinoza read through the alphabet on flash cards. English-learner teacher Nicole Adams timed him with a stopwatch at 40...

Getting the Wiggles Out Helps Students Learn

Wyoming Erin Albanese
In teachers Danielle Terpstra and Kristen Accorsi's classrooms, 50 first-graders sit on yoga balls, wobble stools and yoga mats, and stand on balance boards....

Filling a Need by Filling Backpacks

Byron Center Charles Honey
Surrounded by tubs and shelves bursting with food, Jenny Steele ticked off the numbers of children at half a dozen schools who would soon...

STEM Pros To Female Students: We Need You!

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Before heading to the gymnasium floor to compete with robots they helped build, about 100 girls sat down to listen to a panel of...

Middle College: Head Start, Financially Smart

Wyoming Erin Albanese
Mitch Hendrickson earned 62 credits and an associate's degree while still a high school student, for free. On top of that, he's a full...

‘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...
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