Kent ISD

Oral Deaf Program marks 125-year legacy of support & success

Sparta

Middle school library turned into STEM makerspace

Wyoming

Who can fix the ship? Ask the octopus!

Kentwood

She’s in year 20, and ‘goes at it like year two’

Sarah Kresnak, a Kentwood Public Schools first-grade teacher, was recently named Region 3 Teacher of the Year, and is in the running for Michigan Teacher of the Year.

Lowell

Into the wild: young adventurers test survival skills

Lowell fifth-graders use resources in nature as they learn about survival at the Wittenbach Wege Agriscience & Environmental Education Center.

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Lowell

Into the wild: young adventurers test survival skills

Lowell fifth-graders use resources in nature as they learn about survival at the Wittenbach Wege Agriscience & Environmental Education Center.

Rockford

The zoo comes to you

Northview

Fourth-grade Choristers come together in song

Kent ISD

Concert empowers students to move to the music

Kelloggsville

Horses help students break through barriers, build confidence

EDUCATION EVERYWHERE

Young musicians team up with orchestra to play recorders & do the hand jive

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Central Elementary fourth-graders recently played and sang alongside the Grand Rapids Symphony thanks to the Link Up concert program.

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Mulligans OK as students code, debug & putt

Kentwood Erin Albanese

In this game of mini-golf with a twist, fourth-graders programmed robot balls and sent them rolling toward the hole.

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ISSUES IN EDUCATION

A career in auto repair? For some students, it starts in high school

A Grandville High School teacher and student discuss the “motor skills” learned and career options opened by classes in automotive maintenance as well as in other career and technical education programs.

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For real, she dances a fine reel

Comstock Park

Professor to join Grandville board after ISD decision

Grandville

Student club to hand out food, hygiene items, more

Grand Rapids

Assembly shines light on students who stand out among peers

Kelloggsville

News BRIEFS

District unveils designs for planned high school expansion

East Grand Rapids

KSSN executive director named to national board

Multi Districts

GRCC Community STEM Day is Saturday

Grand Rapids Community College

Grant encourages students to ‘EXPLORE’ careers in education

Rockford

Memo to teachers: grant funds available for your classes

All Districts

Making Headlines

East Grand Rapids

‘It’s a civic responsibility,’ teacher says of education work

This educator and East alum sees public education as a core part of democracy.

Student Voices

Kentwood

Student journalists look at what’s next for tech in West Michigan

Falcon News Network checks out GVSU’s technology plans in a recent broadcast.

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