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New CNA course offers hands-on look at health care career

Kelloggsville Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Meeting the health care interest of their students, Kelloggsville now offers a certified nursing assistant course.

Fifth-graders prepare for STEM project with an animal visit

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Holland’s Outdoor Discovery Center visits with its animals to help North Godwin students prepare for an upcoming STEM project.

Art plus STEM = student-designed machines

Byron Center Alexis Stark

West Middle School art and STEM classes collaborated to learn how to construct simple machines, with design and decoration inspired by artwork.

Library learning includes space, the eclipse and all things astronomical

Video Features Brett Atwood

The Grand Rapids Public Library marked the recent solar eclipse with a family learning event featuring comet-building, an interactive planetarium and a visit from the Air Zoo.

Book battle promotes literacy, teamwork

Byron Center Alexis Stark

Nickels Intermediate’s annual Battle of the Books competition serves as a fun opportunity to encourage reading.

Future health care pros sample multiple career focuses

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

The recent event was part of Kent ISD’s Career and Talent Development initiative focused on increasing career exploration, training and work-based learning opportunities for students throughout the region.

Young readers follow the recipe for perfect pound cake

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell

Each class at Grand View Elementary took on a unique challenge for National Reading Month: bake an award-winning pound cake by reading and following the same recipe.

Young engineers turn paper into a wild ride

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Kenowa Hills Middle School STEM Academy students designed, laser-cut and constructed their own roller coasters out of paper, tape and 3D-printed elements.

Montessori students sound out the basics of bluegrass

Grand Rapids Riley Kelley

St. Cecilia Music Center brings bluegrass to the classroom as part of its in-school programming.

Educators and business leaders team up to help build school-to-work pipeline

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Kent County educators and business leaders explore how to make students more aware of possible careers and connect them to job opportunities.

Tuning, tempo and treble clef: Teen musicians leading the way for younger counterparts

State of the Arts Brett Atwood

Caledonia High School’s orchestra leadership team is helping Duncan Lake Middle Schoolers get prepared and excited to continue playing string instruments.

From concrete to abstract, manipulatives make math meaningful

Rockford Riley Kelley

A recent grant funded the purchase of new tools to help math learners in Rockford.

Young ‘makers’ create handmade games to help STEM lessons stick

Byron Center Alexis Stark

March is makers’ month for kindergarten through fourth-grade students to create computers and arcade games in STEM class at Brown Elementary.

Kindergarten language arts unit gets royal treatment

Caledonia Alexis Stark

Dutton Elementary students got a royal reading lesson during their kings and queens unit, followed by a tea party celebration.

Elementary ukulelists get a feel for strings

Grandville Beth Heinen Bell

From “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” to “Sweet Caroline,” these fifth-graders are becoming strumming pros on the ukulele.

Middle-schoolers develop skills, confidence through theater

Lowell Erin Albanese

How do students go from nervous newcomers to accomplished thespians? By getting on stage and going for it at Lowell Middle School.

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