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Career Day Aims to ‘Light a Fire’ for School and Beyond

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Newspapers may be having a tough time surviving, but a lot of the district’s middle school students are into journalism. Nearly 100 of them showed...

‘I Hope They Feel That I Love Them’

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Libby Metiva’s seventh-graders were spread out in her classroom and the adjoining hallway, working in small groups on the answer to a science experiment:...

Goodbye Owl Vomit and Yurts; Hello Advanced Math — Hooray!

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Farewell, elementary school; bring it on, middle school! That about sums up the thinking of half a dozen Red Hawk Elementary graduates, as they spend...

FFA Students Are Blue-Ribbon Mentors

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Freshman Kendyll Steffes listens closely as second-grader Remington DeWeese reads aloud a book about a boy and his leprechaun friend. “’If you take your eyes...

‘If It Saves One Person’s Life’

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Evan Kobayashi was an excellent student, a talented baseball player and a considerate classmate. The high school student was “a humble, fun-loving, gentle soul,”...

Helping Teen Parents ‘Go As Far As They Want to Go’

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It had been a week since Robert Brant met with Shelley Bauer, a teen parent educator, and he had big news. He could now begin visiting...

‘Don’t think just because you’re a kid you can’t do it’

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Chloe Grifhorst and Lily Howland love reading books, especially fiction by authors like John Green and Margaret Peterson Haddix. They want others in Cedar...

Community Welcomes Refugee Family Home

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Max Ceymoy stood with his family by his side in the living room of their new home and quietly thanked those who had made...

Teaching About Religions to Foster Understanding, Respect

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As students walked into Craig Beach’s darkened classroom on a recent morning, they heard the song “Wild World” by the former Cat Stevens, now...

Muslim Teacher Hopes to Plant ‘Seed of Understanding’

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The Monday after the 2013 Boston Marathon bombings, Sairah Ahmed went to teach her history classes at Cedar Springs High School with a heavy...

Yellow Brick Classic a K-12 ‘Family’ Effort

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Two boys about to take the stage discussed the challenges of playing a Munchkin. “We have to talk really Munchkin-ish,” said Kaleb Harper. “Squeaky,” clarified...

Closing the Word Gap

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When a home visitor from school told Jessie Kent that she could read books to her son Michael, she had her doubts. How could...

Making Spirits Bright

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“Santa Claus is coming to town!” the carolers sang as they strolled through Cedar Springs Mobile Estates Friday afternoon. But when Dominick Oliver stepped...

Biology Students Wade into Cedar Creek for Answers

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The water is cold. The leaves and sticks are slimy. And then there are the bugs. “It’s disgusting. There are teeny, tiny creatures crawling,” Cedar...

Dad’s Wrench Lesson Becomes Student’s Passion

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When Trinton Stanek was a youngboy, his father showed him how to take a tire off his 1972 pickup, then handed him a lug...

Library or Classroom? How About Both?

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About 30 fifth-graders spread out on the carpet, Chromebooks on their laps and facing a Google Docs page projected on a screen. They’re in...

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