Janice Holst

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Janice Holst was a reporter for SNN covering Kent City and Sparta. She has been both a teacher and a journalist. A former MLive reporter, she wrote features and covered local government and schools for Advance Newspapers for nearly two decades. She also was a recipe columnist and wrote features for Mature Life Style and occasional entertainment pieces for On The Town magazines. She lives in Sparta Township and enjoys spending some of her retirement hours writing the stories of the northern Kent County school districts.

By the middle schoolers, for the middle schoolers

Sparta Janice Holst

Middle school student government is designed to teach about government structure, while representing classmates wants and needs...

Sparta sinking fund renewal on Nov. 5 ballot

Sparta Janice Holst

Approval means no tax increase, officials say. The bond request approved in 2017 pays for technology needs, they say...

Ninety year-old volunteer is something special

Sparta Janice Holst

Grandmother has not missed a year of donating supplies and volunteering classroom support in Sparta Schools for nearly two decades...

Classroom activity gets a bit ‘squirrely’ as students head outside to explore

Kent City Janice Holst

First year pilot STEM program takes all elementary students out of their classrooms to provide experience in important science, technology, engineering and math skills...

‘The wheels on the bus go round and round’ — so the children on the bus come learn their part

Sparta Janice Holst

During the first few days of school, students review behaviors expected of them in hallways, lunchrooms, restrooms, playground, classrooms and on the bus...

District seeks funds for safety, technology & general upgrades

Kent City Janice Holst

The Nov. 5 request is for an extension of the existing 8.25 mill levy. Because the request is for debt retirement extension, property taxes would not increase...

‘All in the Family’ activities feature game shows, scavenger hunts, lip syncs to kick off the year

Kent City Janice Holst

Students from freshmen to seniors, divided into families, spend the first few days of school getting to know each other in order to make sure no student feels alone...

District’s new logo: State of the Art – Small Town Heart

Sparta Janice Holst

The Sparta district strategic plan calls for continued facility improvements, updates in curriculum choice, improved communication with constituents and community and enhanced emphasis on student wellness...

District adds child life specialist to robust mental health team

Cedar Springs Janice Holst

Cedar Springs mental health team grows with specialists trained to teach children how to process feelings before taking action...

Students’ planes fly toward summer break

Kent City Janice Holst

From building robots and coding to exploring the best paper fold for flight patterns, this class helps students explore technology of all kinds...

Students raise funds to bring clean water to Haitian people

Sparta Janice Holst

A middle school global problems classroom raises funds for Haiti and raise enough for charitable organization to match funds for water filters...

Students speak, district listens

Cedar Springs Janice Holst

As the district gets closer to completing a new strategic plan, administrators turn their ears to the voices of students...

‘A light that cannot and will not be put out’

Grads with Grit Janice Holst

Surviving family trauma and housing instability, getting behind on classes, losing beloved grandmothers and becoming a mother did not stop this senior from walking across the graduation stage...

Young leaders leave a literary legacy

Student Leaders Janice Holst

Fifth graders did their research, worked with a budget and chose a new collection of books for their school as part of a new library legacy committee...

District showcases its ‘great things’ in visit from MDE

Cedar Springs Janice Holst

Cedar Springs one of five Michigan schools to host visit from state Education Department...

‘More fun to figure it out’

Sparta Janice Holst

Teacher Greg Busse worked with the Kent ISD science team to bring the relatively new standards into more classrooms. MiSTAR is aligned with Next Generation Science Standards...

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Learning life skills ‘where life happens’

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