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Comstock Park Hannah Lentz
In teacher Tony Molnar’s elementary STEM classes, students create and race homemade pirate ships following science standards...

‘Bring your best every day’

Comstock Park Hannah Lentz
Katie Bredeweg, a second-grade teacher at Stoney Creek Elementary, talks about her experiences in the classroom and the lasting impact that a teacher can have...

Teacher pleaser, shoe tier, lifelong learner

Comstock Park Hannah Lentz
Tiffany Jackson is the new Stoney Creek Elementary School principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet the Principal...

‘Education is in my blood’

Comstock Park Hannah Lentz
Besides decades of working in area public schools, David Washburn grew up in a family of educators, including his father, former Forest Hills Superintendent Michael Washburn...

MySchool@Kent students overcome obstacles to get to graduation

Grads with Grit Janice Holst
Students choose online high school for a variety of reasons. Here, a few of this year’s graduates reflect...

Take a bow, grasshoppers

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema
Recorder karate is about many things, but first and foremost it is about training...

Comstock Park Board begins superintendent search

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The search is on for a new superintendent after Ethan Ebenstein announced he is leaving the post at the end of June to become the superintendent at Ionia County ISD...

Injury, illness can’t hold back this future teacher

Student Leaders Morgan Jarema
Her junior year, another ACL suffered a tear, and that too meant a visit to a surgeon. It was while recovering from that injury that Emily was diagnosed with Hodgkin lymphoma...

‘You can’t rely on other people to build you up’

Grads with Grit Morgan Jarema
Shane Brewer admits he once did “the bare minimum” in school. “I just scraped along. It’s not that I’m not smart. I just didn’t see the point.” Until he did...

‘I want to teach,’ says senior inspired by sixth-grade teacher

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema
This cadet plans a career in middle school education. He credits his own teachers for cementing his aspirations...

Zoo visit by students for students

Comstock Park School News Network
Some 125 Stoney Creek Elementary kindergartners toured John Ball Zoo and were led by zoo school students

‘Books… were calling to me to learn more’

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema
Stoney Creek second-graders recently got to use their fascination with certain animals to show off newly acquired nonfiction writing skills

Oatmeal raisin philanthropy gets students cooking

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The after-school kitchen club formed in January is using proceeds from lunchtime sales of cookies to benefit kids facing cancer

STEM ed through mask-making

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema
Some 120 seventh-graders in Whitney Goulooze’s art class at Mill Creek Middle School are being introduced to the special effects industry

Teachers Say Children Need to Play, Not Work All Day

Multi Districts Morgan Jarema
If you think kindergartners still play with glue and paper all day, think again. In fact they're not playing enough, educators say, so they've...

Writing Lesson Rewrite Produces Big Gains

Comstock Park Morgan Jarema
Aiden Hernandez may only be in the first grade, but he's already got opinions about things. As in, "yes" to green beans and "no"...
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