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Teacher Hosts Weekly Library Days to Keep Students Reading This Summer

The Road to Reading Erin Albanese

Oriole Park Elementary School teacher Ginger VanderBeek scanned the shelves in the children's section at the Wyoming branch of Kent District Library for books...

School Embraces Concept That Leadership Can Be Taught

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Parent Matt Stowe is used to hearing leadership lingo at home from his daughter, Kalani, a third-grader, and son, Nathan, a seventh-grader. They've practiced the...

Art Instruction Spans the Century for Third-Graders

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Wyoming Public Schools Oriole Park Elementary third-grade students bookended the school year with lessons in art history, touring the Grand Rapids Art Museum during...

Rubber Baby Buggy Bumpers: Special Needs Students Shine Onstage

Wyoming Erin Albanese

With superhero capes to go with their super-wide grins, Oriole Park Elementary students sat in a circle, passing around an invisible "whoosh" from person...

Students Leave Their Mark Through Artwork

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Wyoming High School senior Lordia DiPiazza has left her signature, and it's in the form of a smiling face looking toward the future. Lordia, an...

Key to Success: Surround Yourself with Like-Minded People

Godwin Heights School News Network

Dr. Sampson Davis had finished explaining how he managed to become an emergency care doctor and author despite growing up in one of New...

Student-Led Projects Tap Into Creativity, Allow Work to Shine

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Third-grader Dion Idrizi has advice about caring for the planet that everyone should hear. "It's nice to recycle because if you don't, the entire Earth...

Students Pitch Trash to Clean Schools, Park for Service Day

Wyoming Erin Albanese

When Vicki Johnston challenged Parkview Elementary School students to choose a community-service project, they overwhelmingly chose a cause: "Trash the Trash." Hosted by the school's...

Community Partnerships Make Big Things Possible for Elementary School

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Jeremiah Wardell answered questions about how to best support the education of his son, Parkview Elementary School third-grader Braiden White. On big poster boards,...

High-Poverty School Gives Back to Organization That Gives Them Sack Suppers

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Parkview Elementary students chattered excitedly while scooping trail mix and sealing plastic sandwich bags during a packing event for Kids Food Basket. The students were...

Wyoming Students Marvel at Practical, Charitable Uses of 3D Printers

Wyoming School News Network

Dometri Mitz was pretty impressed with the range of uses for 3D printers. The Wyoming Regional Center eighth-grader had seen news reports about the technological...

Leading the Wolf Pack

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Wyoming High School seniors Darren Dannah and Mitch Hendrickson know how to work a crowd. During every Wyoming Wolves girls' and boys' varsity basketball home...

Toothpick Structures Teach Teamwork, Economics

Wyoming Erin Albanese

With toothpicks and miniature cups of glue priced at $500 apiece, Wyoming Intermediate School fifth-graders quickly learned that building a bridge with a $100,000...

Families Bond, Boogie at Family Dance

Wyoming Erin Albanese

Gladiola Elementary School students perfected line dances twirled, do-si-doed with their parents, and ate sweet treats at the annual Family Dance. For families it was...

New Sense of Belonging Leads to Improved Grades, Behavior

Wyoming Erin Albanese

As a school social worker and black woman, Brooke Davis found a trend at Wyoming Junior High School distressing: The African-American girl population was...

Special Olympics Athletes Find Joy, Confidence on the Slopes

Wyoming Erin Albanese

For Brianna Salazar, swooshing her way downhill and between flags while skiing the giant slalom feels exhilarating. "I love that experience. I never thought I'd...

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