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Sticks and stones, paint and light bulbs

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

This holiday season, Godwin Heights Middle School students are learning how to care for their environment by creating Christmas ornaments...

Mental health checks and career exploration find virtual home in school districts

Multi Districts Janice Holst

A tool students can use with their phones is opening doors to careers -- many of them local -- and giving administrators a read on emotional wellness...

Visual performing arts elective lets students explore broadcasting

Sparta Janice Holst

The daily newscast includes in- and out-of-school topics...

Have cart, will travel

Kelloggsville Phil de Haan

A Southeast Kelloggsville Elementary music teacher has a new cart for her ukuleles, thanks to her school, her husband and the Kent Career Tech Center...

Essential workers get high school diplomas thanks to state program

Career Exploration Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Futures for Frontliners offers free community college tuition to essential workers. The program also helps people earn a high-school GED...

High school career center shifts to project-based learning focus

Career Exploration Morgan Jarema

No more usual, scheduled six-hour school day. Gone are letter grades; instead, concrete standards are detailed on a hybrid transcript...

Bringing individual value to shared space

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

An assignment based on a Detroit art project teaches students that they each help to build and shape their ‘neighborhood’...

Students learn resilience by piecing together art

Kelloggsville Phil de Haan

It’s Bruno Mars and breaking glass in Room 1505 at Kelloggsville High School this fall...

‘These kids just really want to be singing’

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell

Determined to bring back choir in a safe manner, this teacher made changes to her classes based on the latest scientific research and best practices by fellow teachers...

Foundation funds math curriculum, mental health coordinator

Caledonia Alexis Stark

The Caledonia Education Foundation recently awarded the district a $75,000 grant to pay for a new math curriculum and to free up dollars to add a new position to serve students’ mental, social and emotional health needs...

Rocketing through Robotics

Kelloggsville Phil de Haan

Creating 3D-printed rockets is just one hands-on activity this fall in a new Introduction to Robotics course at Kelloggsville High School...

Marching on

State of the Arts Erin Albanese

The plan is to continue regular rehearsals and to host a number of community events, to be determined...

Virtual career exploration a hit with students

Career Exploration Morgan Jarema

The district helped shape the online program, which is now being used to varying degrees by a handful of area schools...

Celebrating senior singers with a final concert, virtually

Rockford Charles Honey

Over 120 choral students in grades 9-12 will join voices in a virtual choir to celebrate the graduations of about 45 senior singers, in a prerecorded concert to be posted on the Rockford Choirs YouTube channel...

Creating art anywhere

State of the Arts Erin Albanese

A new reality of art lessons during the pandemic is the resource savviness required to make it work, technologically and material-wise...

A student’s poem of hope for a tough time

State of the Arts Charles Honey

Tanith Frank, an eighth grader at North Rockford Middle School, sounds notes of courage and determination in her poem about getting through this challenging time, together...

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