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Godwin Heights Food Director Jamie Schmaker chats with second-grader CeCe as she mixes the blenderless smoothies
Godwin Heights

Snacking healthy: TEAM 21 students learn about the power of good eating

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Godfrey-Lee ECC Great Start Readiness Program preschoolers learn how to make seed bombs from paper, water and wildflower seeds
Kent ISD

Preschool enrollment gets a boost at Great Start Readiness

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Sparta Area Schools’ mobile library
Sparta

Books on the Run bounces back

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Byron Center is looking for suggestions from the community to name the fourth elementary school, set to open in 2024 (courtesy)
Byron Center

New building: you name it 

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Forest Hills students are pictured during a marching band practice
Forest Hills

Showcasing the bands

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The Rockford parks and recreation millage will continue to fund things like youth swimming lessons, pickleball classes and classes for seniors at no or low cost to citizens
Rockford

District asks voters to renew no-increase parks and recreation millage

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Construction of Caledonia Elementary’s new playground is underway
Caledonia

Coming soon: new playgrounds

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Students at the 54th Street Academy are buzzed into the office via the building’s new security entrance
Kelloggsville

They’ll buzz you in

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Environmental educator receives fellowship 
Forest Hills

Environmental educator receives fellowship 

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Wyoming Intermediate School Assistant Principal April Chambliss greets sixth-grader Alexander Hernandez while on bus duty with her bullhorn
Meet Your Administrators

High expectations, open hearts are administrators’ leadership strategies

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Parents attending the conference were able to meet with community partners and learn about resources (courtesy)
Kent ISD

Building parent confidence

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From left, Grand View kindergartners Elle Lerz and Anders Bishop, and siblings Grethe Bishop and Emme Lerz, pose with the Grandville bulldog mascot
Grandville

Welcome, class of 2036

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Third-grader Abigail Gonzalez-Lopez chose the word ‘happy’ for her mood meter bracelet because she’s a happy person
Godfrey-Lee

Beaded bracelets connect third-graders with their moods

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Josh Rose holds a chunk of silver created in a lab where he teaches his chemistry students
Lowell

‘My days just fly by’

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Photo of the 7 kids playing the Von Trapp family singers
Byron Center

It takes a community to stage a musical

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John Wittkowski is the newly hired emergency coordinator for Region I
Cedar Springs

Region I emergency coordinator now on the job

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