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Young constitutional scholars view current events, politics through historical lens

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

East Grand Rapids and East Kentwood high school We the People team members have qualified for the national competition, becoming well versed in civics and critical thinking along the way...

Letters to a tribal cousin show understanding of indigenous peoples

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Teacher Brett Scheidel has assigned the activity for at least a decade...

‘Soul of Northview’ Says Students Are the Reward

East Grand Rapids Charles Honey

Ted Burba, a longtime and beloved teacher for Northview Public Schools who retired this fall, died early this week after a long illness. In tribute to his lasting legacy, School News Network republishes this profile of Mr. Burba that originally ran in 2016 to honor his 50th year of teaching...

Filmmaker, engineer, future rocket-builder: it’s all about creativity

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Xiangyu Chen says his twin passions -- filmmaking and all things science, technology, engineering and math-related -- draw upon similar principles...

Short stories, tall tales

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

A collection of short stories by Mark Pullen’s fourth-graders at Lakeside Elementary shows what they have learned in their realistic fiction writing unit...

Bringing ‘positive intent’ to work every day

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

Heather McKinney-Rewa is the new East Grand Rapids Middle School assistant principal. SNN gets to know her in this edition of Meet the Principal...

Fifth-graders find beauty in science by dissecting marigolds

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

One teacher used readily available nature just outside school to introduce this year’s science unit, as well as flowers from home to study the parts of plants...

From meeting room to classroom

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

The district’s Board of Education is on the move this year, now that its meeting room regularly draws a much younger audience...

Here come the students; schools try to be ‘prepared for everything’

Back to School 2.0 Charles Honey

Area school districts have to be able to switch instruction plans if the pandemic fires up again, and be prepared for the possibility of a COVID-19 outbreak in one of their schools...

Ready or not, school year begins as leaders adopt plans to teach, protect students

Back to School 2.0 Charles Honey

With most of Kent County’s public school districts opening next week, superintendents talk about their plans to educate students while trying to keep them safe from an unpredictable virus...

Community input key to district’s reopening plan

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

After initially releasing a fully in-person return-to-school plan, the district revised it twice as national, state and local health guidelines changed...

Making the best of it

Back to School 2.0 Morgan Jarema

Students, parents, teachers and others share their feelings about the start of this unprecedented school year...

‘Middle school’s gonna love you’

East Grand Rapids Morgan Jarema

The annual rite of passage for fifth graders was modified because of safety measures to help curb the spread of the coronavirus...

Above the fold: student journalists make headlines with big wins

Northview Morgan Jarema

Three area school news sites take top honors at annual state interscholastic journalism awards, held online this year...

So far, so good for districts implementing distance learning

School 2.0 Charles Honey

Under Gov. Whitmer’s April 2 executive order closing schools, districts were required to develop Continuity of Learning Plans making instruction available to all students...

School’s back! Districts begin to launch Continuity of Learning Plans

School 2.0 Erin Albanese

Districts statewide are rolling out individualized plans by April 28 to continue learning through the end of the school year...

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