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Discovering the ‘why’ of career exploration

Northview Morgan Jarema

Grow MainStreet is helping the district — and middle-school students — connect many of the dots between today’s learning and career awareness...

A door to reading

Godwin Heights Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

This annual event offers reading-related activities for students and their families...

Theater students find community through ‘Matilda’ musical

Lowell Meghan Gracy

While the story of Matilda showcases a dysfunctional family, the Lowell High School cast performing the musical has found kinship through their production...

Being fully present

Forest Hills Carol Lautenbach

The mind contributes to the sound, tone and feelings musicians produce. Learning mindfulness benefits the musician and contributes to harmony of all kinds in this Central Woodlands classroom...

Pinch pots, penguins, pumpkins & more

Comstock Park Karen Gentry

Stoney Creek Elementary students are learning the basics of art and their mediums, then showing off their skills to friends and family...

Student art gets gallery showing

Byron Center Alexis Stark

Byron Center students learned different artistic techniques and got to see their projects displayed in downtown Grand Rapids...

Half-day math day? Yes!

Kentwood Erin Albanese

Student-led learning came in the form of math games for Crestwood Middle School students...

Making mathematicians

Sparta Jane Lally

The district’s Early Childhood Center learning lab incorporates math across the curriculum...

Love and positivity, multiplied

Lowell Erin Albanese

Two Valentines per algebra student grew to 1,400 schoolwide, and created an unforgettable math lesson...

Students present artistic twist on being nice

Lowell Erin Albanese

Students display art to share messages of kindness, community and compassion...

New initiative aims to connect students with careers & schools with employers

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Kent ISD expands career exploration and work-based opportunities through its new Career and Talent Development initiative...

Lighting the spark for inquiry

Lowell Meghan Gracy

Bushnell Elementary families applied real-world lessons at stations set up throughout the school...

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Where art and engineering collide

Kenowa Hills Alexis Stark

Alpine Elementary third-graders are building straw rockets to go where no student has gone before: the moon!

Isaac Newton never imagined this

Cedar Springs Beth Heinen Bell

What’s better than simply reading about Newton’s laws of motion? Students getting on a hovercraft and experiencing those laws of motion for themselves...

Can these students’ designs survive the ‘Eggsecutioner?’

Thornapple Kellogg Allison Poosawtsee

Thornapple Kellogg High School students enjoy the culmination of a unit about force and interactions. Grading also included a writing assignment...

Kent Career Tech Center and Kent Transition Center to merge

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

The Kent Career Tech Center and Kent Transition Center merger, planned for the 2023-24 school year, is aimed at giving students more opportunities for career exploration...

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Kent County Cup winner finds new career focus through esports

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Second- & third-graders learn how things work by doing

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