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Their goal: get to know every Ranger

Forest Hills Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

The team’s goal is to get to know every student, so SNN is turning the tables so the community can get to know the new members, with one veteran joining in.

3D ‘cabinets of curiosity’ represent a generation’s issues, events

Forest Hills Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Students at Central High imagine how people 100 years from now might perceive the 21st century.

Initiative aims to double enrollment in career & technical education by 2030

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

An ambitious county-wide initiative aims to increase the number of students taking classes that teach them career skills and prepare them for the workforce.

Teacher Academy students design their future classrooms

Kent ISD Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

First-year Teacher Academy students designed classrooms with a focus on the developmental needs of their students.

Retired teachers return as mentors

Forest Hills Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

A chance conversation led school counselor Cindi Reynolds to invite former Knapp Forest Elementary staff to return as mentors.

Touched by tragedies, social worker educates families on safe gun storage

All Districts School News Network

Social worker Eunice Benavidez, who’s lost family members to gun violence, talks about a safe gun storage initiative she leads at Kelloggsville Public Schools.

Threats to schools: real or hoaxes?

Multi Districts Alexis Stark

Following a school shooting in Georgia, school districts locally and statewide saw an increase in threats this fall – many of them false.

State of the Student tackles four big topics

All Districts Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

Area students were center stage at the annual “Listen. Learn. Lead.” event to share their thoughts about mental health, school safety, engagement and belonging.

High-schoolers talk mental health with education leaders, legislators

Multi Districts Erin Albanese

What can schools do to support student mental health and make connections? Students shared their thoughts on how and why it’s so important to them.

Creating a supportive environment for all

Forest Hills Joanne Bailey-Boorsma

SNN gets to know the new administrative team at Forest Hills Northern High School.

No cell phones in class? It’s a good thing, student and principal say

Podcasts School News Network

Five years after Forest Hills adopted a policy severely restricting cell-phone use during the school day, we talk to a student and principal about how that’s working out.