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Major factor in school closings: evidence of virus spread

All Districts Erin Albanese
While the Kent County Health Department is working hard with superintendents to keep schools open, sometimes closing is the best way to mitigate spread...

Sensory splendor

Caledonia Alexis Stark
Dutton teachers worked together to prepare lessons with creative twists to accomodate the needs of the kids while following the safety requirements for the 2020 back-to-school plan...

Two-stepper, avid reader owes career to her first-grade teacher

Caledonia Alexis Stark
Jenn Shultz is the new Emmons Lake Elementary School principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet Your Administrators...

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...

Whole-child advocates ready to lead, collaborate

Caledonia Alexis Stark
SNN gets to know these new elementary principals in this edition of Meet the Principal...

High school closes due to positive COVID-19 cases

Caledonia Alexis Stark
Caledonia High School is closed for in-person instruction through Friday, Sept. 11, after five students and one staff member tested positive for COVID-19...

Students have choice of face-to-face, online learning

Caledonia Alexis Stark
Teachers are being trained in using the Michigan Virtual platform for online instruction...

‘Farm to School’

Caledonia Hannah Lentz
Caledonia Schools passed out more than 1,300 boxes of produce to community members through the Farm to School Program...

Words to Live By

Caledonia Hannah Lentz
Students from the Be Nice Leadership team wrote and mailed more than 300 encouraging postcards to the entire freshman class...

A rusty old tractor and passion drives a young farm mechanic into family history

Caledonia Hannah Lentz
Freshman Brandon Pyper will connect to his family roots – deep in the engine of a 70-year-old tractor – as part of a national restoration contest that will take a year to complete...

A clean sweep: seven districts pass funding proposals

Multi Districts School News Network
All seven school districts in Kent ISD that made funding requests to voters had them approved, despite the economic and health crises of the COVID-19 pandemic...

Districts come to voters with funding proposals May 5

Multi Districts School News Network
Seven school districts in Kent ISD have funding requests on next week’s Tuesday, May 5 election ballot, ranging from major bond issues and sinking funds to non-homestead operating millage renewals...

Bond approval would fund new elementary building, athletic complex

Caledonia Hannah Lentz
On the ballot May 5 is a request for a major bond proposal to fund construction of a new school building and athletic facility...

Eighth grader’s design will grace new STEM initiatives

Caledonia Hannah Lentz
Lauren Koslorowski’s winning original STEM logo will be used to launch Caledonia’s new STEM initiatives across the district...

Supporting healthy relationships as ‘the root of all learning’

Caledonia Hannah Lentz
Vickie Swanson has had many roles in her two years with Caledonia Schools, all aimed at the goal of addressing mental health across the district...

‘I owe so much to them all’

Caledonia Hannah Lentz
He has been teaching orchestra to Caledonia middle school students for 15 years...
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